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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'>[Our apologies if you
receive multiple copies of this email]<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This is a gentle reminder that the extended and final deadline for the
1-2 pages proposal (PDF) for a chapter in a new book titled
"Networks-on-Chips: Theory and Practice" is December 5<sup>th</sup>,
2007.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The book is going to be published by Taylor & Francis Group LLC
– CRC Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.ims.ece.uvic.ca/book.html"
title="blocked::http://www.ims.ece.uvic.ca/book.html">http://www.ims.ece.uvic.ca/book.html</a>
for further details.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This book is written to address many challenging topics related to
Networks-on-Chip (NoC) research area. Starting with NoC architecture, network
design methodologies, topology optimization, mapping of applications onto NoCs,
network interface design, interconnection architecture, to switches and Routers
design which includes queue modeling, and arbitration analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The book also discusses NoC protocols at different layers of
abstraction, including analyzing and comparing different routing protocols,
flow control protocols, and congestion control protocols. The book also
discusses the impact of routing protocols on the network performance and
proposes new methodologies for performance evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Traffic modeling is one of the main issues that will be addressed in
this book. That includes developing different methodologies to extract real
traffic traces, proposing standard NoC-based traffic distributions to be used
by NoC community based on traffic Markovian models and open source<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>tools that generate application-specific traffic distribution graphs.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The book surveys and compares the work done to date in NoC quality of
service, testing and verification methodologies and proposes new fault
tolerance, error correction / detection techniques to improve the network
performance. The book also addresses new emerging issues such as security
requirements and overheads in NoC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Finally, the book applies all proposed theoretical concepts into
practical real-time applications. Starting with design tools, hardware
platforms, synthesis, and mapping methodologies. The book answers many
questions like which languages should be used and based on what metrics can we
choose our target technology. Many implementation issues are also addressed
through case studies and examples such as physical design of interconnection
network, power and energy issues in NoC, and reconfigurable NoC Design.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><u><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Table of Contents: (Proposed Topics but not limited
to)<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>1 - Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2- NoC Architecture (Network Design Methodologies, Topology
Optimization, Mapping of applications onto NoCs, Network interface design,
Interconnection architecture)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>3- Switch and Router Design (Switch Fabric, Queue Modeling, Router
Types, Arbitration)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>4- Networks-on-Chip Protocols (Routing protocols, Flow Control
Protocols, Congestion Control Protocols)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>5- Traffic Modeling (Real Traffic Traces, Towards Standardization of
NoC-based Traffic, Traffic Markovian Models, Application-specific Traffic
Generator, Traffic Distribution Graph)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>6- NoC Quality of service (Guaranteed service and best effort,
Connectivity and reliability issues, Improving Network Throughput)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>7- Testing and Verification (Fault Tolerance, Error correction /
detection techniques, Design for testability, Performance Evaluation)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>8- NoC Design Tools (High Level Languages, Hardware Platforms,
Synthesis, Mapping, Placement, and Routing)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>9- Security in NoC (Need for Security IPs, Design Methodologies,
Security Overheads)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>10- NoC-based Implementations (NoCs for FPGAs and structured ASICs,
Power and energy issues in NoC, Reconfigurable NoC Design, O/S and RTOS for
NoC, Case Studies)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Please make correspondence and chapter submissions to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Prof. Fayez Gebali <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Email: <a href="mailto:ims@ece.uvic.ca">ims@ece.uvic.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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