The 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
May 10-13, 2009, San Diego, CA

Venue: The Westin Gaslamp Quarter, downtown San Diego

NOCS is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip communication technology, architecture, design methods and applications, bringing together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations from inter-related research communities, including computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, embedded systems, and design automation.

Announcements

• 09-15-2009: NOCS 2010 will be held in Grenoble, France, during May 3-6, 2010. The NOCS 2010 website is now active, and here is the preliminary Call for Papers.
  

• 06-18-2009: The winner of the best paper award:
  BiNoC: A Bidirectional NoC Architecture with Dynamic Self-Reconfigurable Channel
  Ying-Cherng Lan*, Shih-Hsin Lo*, Yueh-Chi Lin*, Yu-Hen Hu**, Sao-Jie Chen*
  *National Taiwan University, **University of Wisconsin [Slides]
• 05-14-2009: The keynote and banquet talk slides have been posted.
• 05-13-2009: The tutorial slides have been posted.
• 05-04-2009: Instructions for posters have been posted.
• 04-20-2009: Early conference registration deadline is today (Pacific Time). Please book today to take advantage of the reduced rates.
• 04-20-2009: The Cut-Off Date for the Special Conference Hotel Rate at the Westin Gaslamp has been extended to April 27, 2009, but please book your hotel as soon as possible.
• 03-31-2009: The Conference Registration site is now available.
• 03-31-2009: The special hotel conference rate on the hotel conference registration site is good for May 6-15 2009 reservations.
• 03-30-2009: The Tutorials page is online.
• 03-25-2009: The Call for Demos is online.
• 03-24-2009: The Preliminary Technical Program is now posted.
• 03-17-2009: We are delighted to announce that we have three very exciting keynote speakers for NOCS 2009: Dr. Ivo Bolsens (Sr. VP and CTO, Xilinx, Inc.), Dr. Andrew Chien (VP and Director of Research, Intel Corp.), and Prof. Anant Agarwal (Professor at MIT and CTO at Tilera Corp.).
• 03-17-2009: The Hotel Reservation Site is now open. Please make your hotel reservation as soon as possible to get the special conference hotel rate. The conference registration site will be open shortly.

Important Dates

Abstract registration deadline	January 23, 2009 (hard deadline, 11:59pm PST)
Full paper submission deadline	January 30, 2009 (hard deadline, 11:59pm PST)
Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, and panels	January 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance	March 13, 2009
Final version due	April 6, 2009
Advance registration deadline	April 20, 2009
Hotel reservation deadline	April 27, 2009
Symposium	May 10-13, 2009

Organizing Committee

General Chairs	Bill Lin	University of California, San Diego
	Partha Kundu	Intel Corporation
Program Chairs	Radu Marculescu	Carnegie Mellon University
	Axel Jantsch	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Finance Chair	Karam Chatha	Arizona State University
Registration Chair	Joerg Henkel	University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Publications Chair	Luca Carloni	Columbia University
Publicity Chair	Davide Bertozzi	University of Ferrara, Italy
Tutorials Chair	Kees Goossens	NXP Semiconductors & TU Delft, Netherlands

Sponsors

Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Council for EDA, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH), ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED), ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), and Silistix, Inc.