Journal Articles

J. Biomech
2009

 

Chia-Lin Chang, Zhanpeng Jin, Hou-Cheng Chang, and Allen C. Cheng, "From Neuromuscular Activation to End-point Locomotion: An Artificial Neural Network-based Technique for Neural Prostheses," Journal of Biomechanics, 42(8):982-988, May 2009. [Impact Factor: 2.897, ranked in top 6 in the specialty of Biomedical Engineering] (Abstract, Full Text)

IEEE MICRO
2008

 

Zhanpeng Jin and Allen C. Cheng, "Evolutionary Benchmark Subsetting," IEEE Micro (IEEE Micro), 28(6):20-36, November/December 2008. (Abstract, Full Text)

IEEE MICRO
2008

 

Zhanpeng Jin and Allen C. Cheng, "ImplantBench: Characterizing and Projecting Representative Benchmarks for Emerging Bio-Implantable Computing," IEEE Micro (IEEE Micro), 28(4):71-91, July/August 2008. (Abstract, Full Text)

Please Visit the ImplantBench Website for downloading the source code.

IBM JRD
2006

 

Allen C. Cheng and Gary Tyson, "High-Quality ISA Synthesis for Low-Power Cache Designs in Embedded Microprocessors," IBM Journal of Research & Development (JRD) (invited paper for the Special Issue on Exploratory Systems), 50(2/3):299-309, March/May 2006. (Abstract, Full Text (HTML), Full Text (PDF))

IEEE TC
2005

 

Allen C. Cheng and Gary Tyson, "An Energy Efficient Instruction Set Synthesis Framework for Low Power Embedded System Designs," IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) (Special Issue on Energy Efficient Computing), 54(6):698-713, June 2005. (Abstract, Full Text)

 


Conference Papers & Presentations

BMES
2009

 

Joseph Oresko, Jun Cheng, Heather Duschl, and Allen C. Cheng, "Transplanting a Resting ECG Machine to a Cell Phone for Real-Time ECG Acquisition, Feature Extraction, and Statistical Cardiac Summary Reports," In Proceedings of the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Scientific Meeting (BMES), pp. 118, October 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

IEEE
EMBC
2009

 

Zhanpeng Jin, Yuwen Sun, and Allen C. Cheng, "Predicting Cardiovascular Disease from Real-Time Electrocardiographic Monitoring: An Adaptive Machine Learning Approach on a Cell Phone," In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC), September 2009, Minneapolis, MN, in press. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

IEEE
ISLPED
2009

 

Yuwen Sun, Shimeng Huang, Joseph Oresko, John Krais, and Allen C. Cheng, "A Programmable Implementation of Neural Signal Processing on a Smartdust for Brain-Computer Interfaces," In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (IEEE ISLPED), August 2009, San Francisco, CA, in press. [Acceptance Rate: 35% or 75 out of 210 submitted papers] (Conference Info, Conference Program)

ACM/IEEE
DAC
2009

 

Shimeng Huang, Joseph Oresko, Yuwen Sun, and Allen C. Cheng, "Programmable Neural Processing on a Smartdust," In Proceedings of the 46th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (ACM/IEEE DAC), Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) Track, July 2009, San Francisco, CA, in press. [Acceptance Rate: 16% or 8 out of 49 submitted papers] (Conference Info, Conference Program)

ACM
ASPLOS-WACI
2009

 

James Hoe, Ken Mai, and Allen C. Cheng, "Brain-Implantable Computing Platforms for Emerging Neuroscience Applications," In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ACM ASPLOS), the Wild and Crazy Idea Session VII, Washington DC, March 2009. (Abstract, Conference Info, Conference Program)

UNTT
2009

 

Robert Sclabassi, Allen C. Cheng, James Hoe, Ken Mai, Mingui Sun, Douglas Weber, Xin Li, Gary Fedder, Yoed Rabin, Donald Whiting, Jeyanandh Paramesh, and Wei Wang, "Brain-Implantable Computer Platform," In Proceedings of the Unither Nanomedical & Telemedical Technology Conference, February, 2009, Quebec, Canada. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

IEEE
EMBC
2008

 

Chia-Lin Chang, Zhanpeng Jin, and Allen C. Cheng, "Predicting End-Point Locomotion from Neuromuscular Activities of People with Spina Bifida: A Self-Organizing and Adaptive Technique for Future Implantable and Non-invasive Neural Prostheses," In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC), pp. 4203-4207, August 2008, Vancouver, Canada. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

 

ACM/IEEE
DAC
2008

 

Zhanpeng Jin and Allen C. Cheng, "Improve Simulation Efficiency Using Statistical Benchmark Subsetting - An ImplantBench Case Study," In Proceedings of the 45th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (ACM/IEEE DAC), pp. 970-973, June 2008, Anaheim, CA. [Acceptance Rate: 23% or 147 out of 639 papers submitted] (Conference Info, Conference Program)

 

IEEE
ISQED
2008

 

Allen C. Cheng, "Amplifying Embedded System Efficiency via Automatic Instruction Fusion on a Post-Manufacturing Reconfigurable Architecture Platform," In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (IEEE ISQED), pp. 744-749, March 2008, San Jose, CA. [Acceptance Rate: 30% or 90 out of 300 papers submitted] (Conference Info, Conference Program)

 

IEEE
DELTA
2008

 

Allen C. Cheng, "A Software-to-Hardware Self-Mapping Technique to Enhance Program Throughput for Portable Multimedia Workloads," In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Applications (IEEE DELTA), pp. 356-361, January 2008, Hong Kong, China. [Acceptance Rate: 41% or 88 out of 210 papers submitted] (Conference Info, Conference Program)

 

IEEE
ISM
2007

 

Allen C. Cheng, "Accelerating Embedded Multimedia Applications with Versatile and Reconfigurable Instruction Fusion," In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM), pp. 318-325, December, 2007, Taichung, Taiwan. [Acceptance Rate: 24% or 38 out of 156 papers submitted] (Conference Info, Conference Program)

 

IEEE
COOLChips
2007

 

Allen C. Cheng, "Toward Ubiquitous Biomedical Implantable Computing Chips - An Energy-Efficient Low-Power Architecture," In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (IEEE COOL Chips), pp. 263-277, April 2007, Yokohama, Japan. [Acceptance Rate: 36%] (Conference Info)

 

IEEE
ISPASS
2005

 

Allen C. Cheng, Gary Tyson, and Trevor Mudge, "PowerFITS: Reduce Dynamic and Static I-Cache Power Using Application Specific Instruction Set Synthesis," In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (IEEE ISPASS), pp. 32-41, March 2005, Austin, TX. [Acceptance Rate: 29% or 27 out of 92 papers submitted] (Conference Program, Full Text)

 

IBM
P=AC2
2004

 

Allen C. Cheng and Gary Tyson, "Application Specific Instruction Set Synthesis to Reduce Instruction Cache Power in Embedded Processors," In Proceedings of the 1st IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (IBM P=AC2), pp. 83-92, October 2004, Yorktown Heights, NY. [Acceptance Rate: 46%] (Conference Program)

 

ACM/IEEE
DAC
2004

 

Allen C. Cheng, Gary Tyson, and Trevor Mudge, "FITS: Framework-based Instruction-set Tuning Synthesis for Embedded Application Specific Processors," In Proceedings of the 41st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (ACM/IEEE DAC), pp. 920-923, June 2004, San Diego, CA. [Acceptance Rate: 20% or 163 out of 785 papers submitted] (Conference Program, Full Text)

 

 


Workshop Papers & Presentations

FNIH
mHealth
2009


Allen C. Cheng, "Real-Time Cardiovascular Diseases Detection on a Smartphone," Foundation for the National Institutes (FNIH) of Health mHealth Summit 2009 (mHealth Summit 2009), in press, October 2009, Washington DC.

ACM/IEEE
ISCA-BiC
2009


Joseph Oresko, Jun Cheng, Zhanpeng Jin, Heather Duschl, and Allen C. Cheng, "Detecting Cardiovascular Diseases via Real-Time Electrocardiogram Processing on a Smartphone," In Proceedings of the Workshop on Biomedicine in Computing: Systems, Architectures, and Circuits (BiC), in conjunction with the 36th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ACM/IEEE ISCA), pp 13-16, June 2009, Austin, TX.

IEEE/NIH LiSSA
2009


Zhanpeng Jin, Joseph Oresko, Shimeng Huang, and Allen C. Cheng, "A Personalized Medicine Technology for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Detection," In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/NIH 2009 Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (IEEE/NIH LiSSA), pp. 80-83, April 2009, Bethesda, MD. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

IEEE/ACM
CGO-ODES
2009


Allen C. Cheng, "Designing Next-Generation DSP and Embedded Systems for Emerging Bio-Medical Electronic Applications," In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems (IEEE/ACM ODES) (invited Keynote Lecture) in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (IEEE/ACM CGO), , pp. 16, March, 2009. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

Microsoft
ER Symposium
2009

 

Zhanpeng Jin, Joseph Oresko, Shimeng Huang, and Allen C. Cheng, "HeartToGo: A Smartphone-based Mobile Platform for Continuous and Real-Time Cardiovascular Disease Monitoring," In Proceedings of the Microsoft External Research Symposium 2009, Redmond, Washington, March 2009. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

MIT
MTL-Medical
2008

 

Zhanpeng Jin and Allen C. Cheng, "Increasing Heart Attack Survival via a Wearable Smartphone-based Real-Time Monitoring System," In Proceedings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) Workshop on Next-Generation Medical Electronic Systems (invited), pp. 36, December, 2008, Cambridge, MA. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

Microsoft/IEEE
eScience
2008

 

Zhanpeng Jin and Allen C. Cheng, "Portable Diagnostic ECG Platform for Continuous Real-Time Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Cardiovascular Disease," In Proceedings of 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on e-Science (IEEE e-Science), pp. 151, December 2008, Indianapolis, IN. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

 

Microsoft
FacultySummit
2008

 

Zhanpeng Jin and Allen C. Cheng, "CardioPro: A Mobile Platform for Continuous Real-Time Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases," In Proceedings of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Redmond, Washington, July, 2008. (Conference Info, Conference Program)

IEEE/ACM
CGO-ODES
2004

 

Allen C. Cheng, Gary Tyson, and Trevor Mudge, "FITS: Increasing Code Density for Embedded Systems with a Cost-effective 16-bit ISA Synthesis Technique," In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems (IEEE/ACM ODES), in conjunction with the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (ACM/IEEE CGO), pp. 4-23, March 2004, San Jose, CA. (Conference Program)

 

 


Doctoral Dissertation

Thesis: Application Specific Instruction Set Synthesis Frameworks (Abstract, Full)
Thesis Advisors: Professor Trevor Mudge and Professor Gary Tyson

Dissertation Committee

Dissertation Summery: