The HPIN Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Multi-core on-chip Interconnects, Clusters interconnects, Systems interconnects, and Data centers Interconnects

• Hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks

• On/Off-chip interconnection network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration, ...)

• (Self-aware) Quality of Service

• Design, implementation, and evaluation of interconnect standards (InfiniBand, Ethernet, PCI-Express, HyperTransport)

• Performance and power management issues

• Asynchronous interconnect designs

• System modelling and simulation

• Reliability, scalability, availability, and fault tolerance

• (Self-aware) reconfigurability issues

• Memory system design and optimizations

• Flow control and congestion management

• Implementing HPIN with FPGAs

• HPIN in cyber physical systems

• HPIN in cyber security

• Application specific HPIN

• HPIN for data centers

• Reconfigurable/Programmable interconnect components

• Impact of the interconnect on application performance