The 1st ACM/IEEE International Symposium on

Networks-on-Chip

Title: NoC: Network or Chip?

Speaker: Israel Cidon, Tark Professor and Dean of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Abstract: The concept of a communication network emerged, many times in the past, for connecting a large number of systems, replacing dedicated point-to-point connection and other small-scale interconnection mechanisms. Each network needs to provide a cost effective solution for a large number of possibly conflicting requirements such as flexibility, scalability, reliability and performance. Therefore, the task of network architects and designers is to solve multiple instances of a complex constrained optimization problem resulting in numerous and diverse network solutions. For example there are different standards and architectures associated with interconnection networks, home networks, LANs, MANs, WANs and wireless networks.

In this talk we will map common lessons and concepts from the networking research to the emerging NoC field. We will also argue that the NoC optimization problem consists of several distinguished types that should lead to multiple diverse solutions.

NoC network layer architectures pose new challenges in exploring solutions to traditional networking problems such as routing, quality-of-service, flow and congestion control and reliability. The unique characteristics of silicon chips require new solutions to these classical problems, and define a new set of NoC specific problems, such as automatic network design process, power and area optimization and specialized system functionalities. We will speculate which class of solutions is likely to fit the different NoC types.

Bio: Israel Cidon is a Tark Professor and the dean of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a B.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion (1980 and 1984 respectively).  Between 1985 and 1994, he was with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center NY, where he was the manager of the Network Architecture and Algorithms group, leading the research and implementation of the world first converged multi-media WAN and MAN packet switched networks. In 1994 and 1995, he was the manager and founder of the High-Speed Networking group at Sun Microsystems Labs, CA. He is a co-founder of Micronet Ltd. (1981) an early vendor of networked mobile data entry hand-held computers, Viola Networks (1998) a provider of VoIP monitoring and diagnosis software and Actona Technologies (2000, acquired by Cisco in 2004) the first vendor of wide area file system (WAFS) for remote office storage centralization.  He was a founding editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Editor for Network Algorithms for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He received the IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work on the PARIS project and topology update algorithms (1989 and 1993 respectively). He has authored over 140 journal and conference papers and holds 21 US patents.

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