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Wednesday May 9, 2012
08:00-08:40    Registration
08:40-09:00    Opening and Welcome
09:00-10:00    Keynote 1
Chair: Jan Madsen
   Oticon hearing aids - highly optimized multi-processor systems on chip
Mogens Cash Balsby
Oticon
Slides
10:00-10:30    Break
10:30-12:15    Paper Session 1: Routing and Arbitration
Chair: Radu Marculescu
   MinBD: Minimally-Buffered Deflection Routing for Energy-Efficient Interconnect
Chris Fallin , Greg Nazario, Xiangyao Yu, Kevin Chang, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Onur Mutlu
Carnegie Mellon University
Slides
   Deja Vu Switching for Multiplane NoCs
Ahmed Abousamra, Rami Melhem, Alex Jones
University of Pittsburgh
Slides
   Congestion-Aware Learning Model for Highly Adaptive Routing Algorithm in On-Chip Networks
Masoumeh Ebrahimi1, Masoud Daneshtalab1, Hannu Tenhunen1, Maurizio Palesi2
1University of Turku, 2University of Kore
Slides
   Overlaid Mesh Topology Design and Deadlock Free Routing in Wireless Network-on-Chip
Danella Zhao, Ruizhe Wu
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Slides
12:15-13:30    Lunch
13:30-14:45    Paper Session 2: Power Modeling and Power Management in NoCs
Chair: Axel Jantsch
   An Optimal Control Approach to Power Management for Multi-VFI Platforms
Paul Bogdan 1, Rafa Tornero2, Radu Marculescu1
1Carnegie Mellon University, 2University of Valencia
Not available
   In-network Monitoring and Control Policy for DVFS of CMP Networks-on-Chip and Last Level Caches
Xi Chen1, Zheng Xu1, Hyungjun Kim1, Paul Gratz1, Jiang Hu1, Michael Kishinevsky2, Umit Ogras2
1Dept. of ECEN, Texas A&M University, 2Intel, Strategic CAD Labs
Slides
   Modeling and Power Evaluation of On-Chip Router Components in Spintronics
Pierre Schamberger1, Zhonghai Lu1, Xianyang Jiang2, Meikang Qiu3
1KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,2Wuhan University, China, 3University of Kentucky, USA
Slides
14:45-15:15    Break
15:15-18:15    Tutorials (tutorials in parallel, participants select one)
   Methods for Fault Tolerance in Networks on Chip
Axel Jantsch1, Martin Radetzki2
1KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,2University of Stuttgart, Germany
Not available
   Switch design: A unified view of microarchitecture and circuits
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos
Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, Xanthi, Greece
Slides
Thursday May 10, 2012
08:45-09:45    Keynote 2
Chair: Ran Ginosar
   Design of 3D Specific Systems: Prospectives and Interface Requirements
Paul Franzon
North Carolina State University, USA
Slides
09:45-10:15    Break
10:15-12:00    Paper Session 3: Novel NoC Design & Support for CMP/MPSoCs
Chair: Paul Gratz
   Heterogeneous NoC Design for Efficient Broadcast-based Coherence Protocol Support
Mario Lodde1, Jose Flich1, Manuel Acacio2
1Universitat Politècnica de València, 2Universidad de Murcia
Slides
   CCNoC: Specializing On-Chip Interconnects for Energy Efficiency in Cache-Coherent Servers
Stavros Volos, Ciprian Seiculescu, Boris Grot, Naser Khosro Pour, Babak Falsafi, Giovanni De Micheli
EPFL
Slides
   Synthesis of NoC Interconnects for Custom MPSoC Architectures
Gul Khan, Anita Tino
Ryerson University
Slides
   Hierarchical Network-on-Chip and Traffic Compression for Spiking Neural Network Implementations
Snaider Carrillo1, Jim Harkin1, Liam McDaid1, Fearghal Morgan2, Sandeep Pande2, Seamus Cawley2, Brain Mc Ginley2
1University of Ulster, 2National University of Ireland
Slides
12:00-14:00    Lunch (Wednesday posters from 13:15-14:00)
14:00-15:15    Paper Session 4: Simulation and Analysis
Chair: Steven Nowick
   Reservation-based Network-on-Chip timing models for large-scale architectural simulation
Javier Navaridas1, Behram Khan1, Salman Khan1, Paolo Faraboschi2, Mikel Luján1
1The University of Manchester, 2HP Labs
Slides
   TOPAZ: An Open-Source Interconnection Network Simulator for Chip Multiprocessors and Supercomputer
Pablo Abad, Pablo Prieto, Lucia Gregorio, Valentin Puente, Jose-Angel Gregorio
Universisty of Cantabria
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   Analytical Performance Modeling of Hierarchical Interconnect Fabrics
Nikita Nikitin, Javier de San Pedro, Josep Carmona, Jordi Cortadella
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Slides
15:15-15:45    Break
15:45-17:00    Paper Session 5: Flow control and flit serialization
Chair: John Bainbridge
   Dynamic Flow Regulation for IP Integration on Network-on-Chip
Zhonghai Lu, Yi Wang
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Slides
   A Novel Flit Serialization Strategy to Utilize Partially Faulty Links in Networks-on-Chip
Changlin Chen1, Ye Lu2, Sorin Cotofana1
1Delft University of Technology, 2Queen's University of Belfast
Slides
   Fine-Grained Bandwidth Adaptivity in Networks-on-Chip Using Bidirectional Channels
Robert Hesse, Natalie Enright Jerger
University of Toronto
Slides
17:00-18:00    Posters (Thursday posters session)
18:00    Bus to Tivoli
Friday May 11, 2012
08:45-10:30    Session 6: QoS, Error Control and Verification
Chair: Cristina Silvano
   Efficient Timing Channel Protection for On-Chip Networks
Yao Wang, Edward Suh
Cornell University
Slides
   A Statically-Scheduled Time-Division-Multiplexed Network-on-Chip for Real-Time Systems
Martin Schoeberl, Florian Brandner, Jens Sparsø, Evangelia Kasapaki
Technical University of Denmark
Slides
   A Mixed Verification Strategy Tailored for Networks on Chip
Georgios TSILIGIANNIS, Laurence PIERRE
TIMA
Slides
   Transient and Permanent Error Control for High End Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip
Qiaoyan Yu1, José Cano2, José Flich2, Paul Ampadu3
1University of New Hampshire, 2Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, 3University of Rochester
Slides
10:30-11:00    Break
11:00-12:30    Special Session (Industrial Platform Perspectives)
Chair: Davide Bertozzi
   SoC implementation-Driven Interconnect Design
Gilles Baillieu
Arteris
Not available
   Interconnect Challenges and Trade-offs in the Deep Submicron Era for Platform 2012 stackeable many core accelerator
Eric Flamand
STMicroelectronics
Not available
   Beyond the GHz NoC: Challenges in Designing High-Performance Mobile SoCs
John Bainbridge
Sonics
Not available
   Network-on-Chip Research for Cache-Coherent CMPs
Kumar Akhilesh
Intel
Not available
12:30-13:45    Lunch
13:45-15:30    Paper Session 7: 3D & Emerging NoCs
Chair: Chrys Nicopoulus
   Generic Monitoring and Management Infrastructure for 3D NoC-Bus Hybrid Architectures
Amir-Mohammad Rahmani1,2, Kameswar Rao Vaddina1,2, Khalid Latif1,2, Pasi Liljeberg1, Juha Plosila1, Hannu Tenhunen1,3
1University of Turku, Finland, 2Turku Centre for Computer Science, Finland, 3Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Slides
   Engineering a Bandwidth-Scalable Optical Layer for a 3D Multi-core Processor with Awareness of Layout Constraints
Luca Ramini1, Davide Bertozzi1, Luca P. Carloni2
1University of Ferrara, 2Columbia University
Slides
   A Hybrid Buffer Design with STT-MRAM for On-Chip Interconnects
Hyunjun Jang, Baik Song An, Nikhil Kulkarni, Ki Hwan Yum, Eun Jung Kim
Texas A&M University
Slides
   DSENT – A Tool Connecting Emerging Photonics with Electronics for Opto-Electronic Networks-on-Chip Modeling
Chen Sun, Chia-Hsin Owen Chen, George Kurian, Lan Wei, Jason Miller, Anant Agarwal, Li-Shiuan Peh, Vladimir Stojanovic
MIT
Slides
15:30-16:15    Break and Poster (Friday posters)
16:15-16:30    Best Paper Award & Closing