KEYNOTE TALK
Opportunity NoCs: Forging New Paths for NoC
Professor
 School of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 🇰🇷
Professor
 School of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 🇰🇷
Abstract: Network-on-Chip is known to be a critical component in many-core processors. However, the impact of NoC is commonly misunderstood. In this talk, I will discuss potentially rethinking NoC architecture research and potential new opportunities. In particular, NoC is not the system so it is important to understand the impact of the NoC on the overall system as well understand the impact of the system on the NoC. This talk will introduce recent work on GPU NoC as well as domain-specific NoC, present how NoC can be co-designed, and discuss how NoC research should not necessarily be NoC-centric but should be system-centric.
Bio: John Kim is currently a full professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, Korea. JohnKim received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.S/M.Eng from Cornell University. His research interests include computer architecture, interconnection networks, security, and mobile systems. He has received a Google Faculty Research Award, Microsoft-Asia New Faculty Fellowship, and is listed in the Hall of Fame for ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA. He has also worked on the design of several microprocessors at Intel and at Motorola.