The 2023 Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) Symposium

The highlight of this issue is the journal-first model adopted for the articles accepted in the 17th edition of the Networks-on-Chip (NOCS) Symposium. NOCS is held in conjunction with the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK). This year, NOCS was held in Hamburg, Germany, on 21–22 September 2023, marking its return to a fully in-person symposium after virtual and hybrid editions during the pandemic. NOCS is the premier event dedicated to interdisciplinary research on on-chip, package-scale, chip-to-chip, and datacenter rack-scale communication technology as well as architectures, design methods, applications, and systems. NOCS brings together scientists and engineers working on NoC innovations and applications from interdisciplinary research communities and areas, including discrete optimization and algorithms, computer architecture, networking, circuits and systems, packaging, embedded systems, and design automation. We thank the Technical Program Chairs of NOCS 2023, Masoumeh (Azin) Ebrahimi and Sujay Deb, along with the General Chairs Mahdi Nikdast and Miquel Moreto, for the timely delivery of all the accepted NOCS papers to the IEEE Design&Test submission system for further processing. This special issue consists of 15 papers.