List of Published Journals

	Jian Li, Pavel Bloch, Jing Xu, Marinko V. Sarunic, and Lesley Shannon. Performance and Scalability of Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Acceleration Using Graphics Processing Units. Appears in the Journal of Applied Optics, Volume 50, Issue 13, pages 1832-1838, 2011. Impact Factor: 1.410/5-Year Impact Factor: 1.522.
	Edward Chen, William Gruver, Lesley Shannon, and Dorian Sabaz. EuTOPIA: Facilitating Processor-Based DPR Systems for non-DPR Experts. Invited Submission to the Journal of Next Generation Information Technology, Volume 1, Number 1, pages 4-18, 2010.
	Manuel Saldana, Lesley Shannon, Jia Shuo Yue, Sikang Bian, John Craig, and Paul Chow. Routability Prediction of Network Topologies in FPGAs. Appears in the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems: Special Section on System Level Interconnect Prediction, Volume 15, Issue 8, pages 948-951, August 2007. Impact Factor: 1.010/5-Year Impact Factor: 1.497.
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. SIMPPL: An Adaptable SoC Framework using a Programmable Controller IP Interface to Facilitate Design Reuse. Appears in the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Volume 15, Issue 4, pages 377-390, April 2007. Impact Factor: 1.010/5-Year Impact Factor: 1.497.

List of Accepted Journals

	David Dickin, Jason Lee and Lesley Shannon. A case study demonstrating the extended SIMPPL framework for multi-FPGA platforms. To appear in the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, First Submitted: February 2010; Accepted with Minor Revisions: April 2011. [19 pages]
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Leveraging Reconfigurability in the Hardware/Software Codesign Process. To appear in the ACM Transaction on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, First Submitted: August 2010; Accepted with Minor Revisions: November 2008; Publishing Date: Septermber 2011 (Volume 4, Issue 3). [35 pages]
	Cindy Mark, Lesley Shannon, and Steve Wilton. Hierarchical Benchmark Circuit Generation for FPGA Architecture Evaluation. To appear in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, First Submitted: June 2009; Accepted Date: November 2009; Final Draft Accepted: January 2010. Impact Factor: 1.099.[25 pages]

List of Refereed Full Conference Papers

	Mohammad reza Mohammadnia, and Lesley Shannon. Minimizing the Error: A study of the implementation of an Integer Split-Radix FFT on an FPGA for medical imaging. Appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, December 2012. [Acceptance Rate: Unknown]
	Eric Matthews, Lesley Shannon, and Alexandra Fedorova. PolyBlaze: From one to many, bringing the MicroBlaze into the multicore era with Linux SMP support. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic, August 2012. [Acceptance Rate: 28%]
	Snehasish Kumar, Hongzhou Zhao, Arrvindh Shriraman, Eric Matthews, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Lesley Shannon. Amoeba-Cache: Adaptive Blocks to Eliminate Waste in the Memory Hierarchy. Appears in the 45th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2012. [Acceptance Rate: Unknown]
	David Dickin and Lesley Shannon. Exploring FPGA Technology Mapping for Fracturable LUT Minimization. Appears in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, December 2011. [Acceptance Rate: Unknown]
	Edward Chen, Victor Gusev, Dorian Sabaz, Lesley Shannon, and William A. Gruver. Dynamic Partial Reconfigurable FPGA Framework for Agent Systems. Appears in the Proceedings of the Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems, August 2011. [Acceptance Rate: Unknown]
	Jian Li, Marinko V. Sarunic and Lesley Shannon. Scalable, High Performance Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography: why FPGAs and not GPGPUs. Appears in the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 49-56, May 2011. [Acceptance Rate: 17%]
	Aws Ismail and Lesley Shannon. FUSE: Front-end user framework for O/S abstraction of hardware accelerators. Appears in the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 170-177, May 2011. [Acceptance Rate: 17%]
	Daniel D. Hilbich, Ajit Khosla, Bonnie L. Gray, and Lesley Shannon. Bidirectional magnetic microactuators for uTAS. Appears in the Proceedings of SPIE v7929 (Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems IX), Janaury 2011, 79290H, 11 pp. [Acceptance Rate: Unknown]
	Farnaz Gharibian, Lesley Shannon and Peter Jamieson. Finding System-Level Information and Analyzing its Correlation to FPGA Placement. Appears in the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, pages 544-549, August 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 27%]
	Peter Jamieson, Kenneth B. Kent, Farnaz Gharibian, and Lesley Shannon. Odin II - An Open-source Verilog HDL Synthesis Tool for Academic CAD Flows. Appears in the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 149-156, May 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 18%]
	Jason Lee and Lesley Shannon. Predicting the Performance of Application-Specific NoCs Implemented on FPGAs. Appears in the ACM International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays , pages 23-32, February 2009. [Acceptance Rate: 25%]Nominated for Best Paper Award
	David Dickin and Lesley Shannon. Extending the SIMPPL SoC Architectural Framework to Support Application-Specific Architectures on Multi-FPGA Platforms. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, pages 67-72, July 2008. [Acceptance Rate: 31%]
	Jason Lee, Lesley Shannon, Matthew Yedlin, and Gary Malgraves. A Multi-FPGA Application-Specific Architecture for Accelerating a Floating Point Fourier Integral Operator. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, pages 192-202, July 2008. [Acceptance Rate: 31%]
	Lesley Shannon, Blair Fort, Samir, Parikh, Arun Patel, Manuel Saldana, and Paul Chow. A System Design Methodology for Reducing System Integration Time and Facilitating Modular Design Verification. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, pages 289-294, August 2006. [Acceptance Rate: 28% (85/307)]
	Manuel Saldana, Lesley Shannon, and Paul Chow. The Routability of Multiprocessor Network Topologies in FPGAs. Appears in the IEEE/ACM Workshop on System Level Interconnect Predictions, pages 49-56, March 2006. [Acceptantce Rate: Unknown]
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Simplifying the Integration of Processing Elements in Computing Systems using a Programamable Controller. Appears in the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 63-72, April 2005. [Acceptance Rate: 27%]
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Maximizing System Performance: Using Reconfigurability to Monitor System Communications. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, pages 231-238 December 2004. [Acceptance Rate: 27%]
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Using Reconfigurability to Achieve Real-Time Profiling for Hardware/Software Codesign. Appears in the ACM International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, pages 190-199, February 2004. [Acceptance Rate: 27%]

List of Refereed Short Conference Papers

	Eric Matthews, Lesley Shannon, and Alexandra Fedorova. A Configurable Framework for Investigating Workload Execution. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, pages 409-412, December 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 50%]
	Jian Li, David Dickin, and Lesley Shannon. Customizing controller instruction sets for application-specific architectures. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems Architectures and Processors , pages 337-340, July 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 41%]
	Jason Lee, and Lesley Shannon. The Effect of Node Size, Heterogeneity, and Network Size on FPGA based NoCs. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pages 479-482, December 2009. [Acceptance Rate: 48%]
	Edward Chen, Dorian Sabaz, William Gruver and Lesley Shannon. A new flexible PR domain model to replace the fixed multi-PR region model for DPR systems. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, , pages 256-260, December 2008. [Acceptance Rate: 46%]
	Wayne Chen, and Lesley Shannon. An On-Chip Testbed that Emulates Runtime Traffic and Reduces Design Verification Time for FPGA Designs. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pages 361-364, December 2008. [Acceptance Rate: 46%]
	Edward Chen, William Gruver, Dorian Sabaz, and Lesley Shannon. Facilitating Processor-Based DPR Systems for non-DPR Experts. Appears in the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 318-319, April 2008. [Acceptance Rate: 66%]
	James Dykes, Paulman Chan, Glenn Chapman, and Lesley Shannon. A Multiprocessor System-on-Chip Implementation of a Laser-based Transparency Meter on an FPGA. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, pages 373-376, December 2007. [Acceptance Rate: 49%]
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Designing an FPGA SoC using a Standardized IP Block Interface. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, pages 341-342, December 2005. [Acceptance Rate: 49%]
	Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Standardizing the Performance Assessment of Reconfigurable Processor Architectures. Appears in the IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 282-283, April 2003. [Acceptance Rate: 73%]

List of Refereed Posters

Lesley Shannon and Paul Chow. Leveraging Reconfigurability in the Design Process. Poster Presentation at Microsystems Research and Development in Canada (MR&DCAN) in the TEXPO competition. Winner of the CMC Componentware/CAD Award (now called the DALSA Corporation Componentware/CAD Award) September 2004.

List of Invited Talks

	Lesley Shannon. FPGAs: Applications for the Future. Given as an SFU Webcast seminar for the Communications Group, at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby BC), September 2007.
	Lesley Shannon. The Routability of Multi-Processor Networks on FPGAs. Given at: Imperial College London (London UK), June 2007; and at the Cascadia FPGA Workshop at the University of Washington (Seattle WA), July 2007.
	Lesley Shannon. Off-the-Grid Radar Research in Vancouver at SFU. Given at Environment Canada (Toronto ON), December 2006.
	Lesley Shannon. Leveraging Configurability in the Embedded System Design Process. Given at University of Massachusetts (Amherst MA), November 2006.
	Lesley Shannon. Simplifying System-on-Chip Design through Architecture and System CAD Tools. Given at the UW/SFU/UBC FPGA Workshop in Vancouver BC, September 2006.
	Lesley Shannon. Simplifying the Integration of Processing Elements in Computing Systems using a Programmable Controller. Given at University of British Columbia (Vancouver BC) and at the local IEEE chapter at the University of Alberta (Edmonton AB), July 2005.
	Lesley Shannon. FPGAs: The New Age of Design. Given at Altera Corp. in Santa Cruz CA, April 2005.
	Lesley Shannon. Simplifying the Integration of IP Cores into SoCs using a Programmable Controller. Given at Xilinx Inc. in San Jose CA, February 2005.
	Lesley Shannon. Leveraging Reconfigurability in the System-on-Chip Design Process. Given at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NB, October 2004.

Theses

	Lesley Shannon. Simplifying System-on-Chip Design through Architecture and System CAD Tools. Doctoral Thesis with Supervisor Dr. Paul Chow, August 2006.
	Lesley Shannon. Impact of Intellectual Property Cores on Field Programmable Gate Array Designs. Master's Thesis with Supervisor Dr. Paul Chow, January 2001.
	Lesley Shannon. Filtering and Frequency Translation in the Frequency Domain. Bachelor's Thesis with Supervisor Dr. Christopher Diduch, March 1998.