Mr. Cheng has over 20 years of microprocessor architecture / IC design and management experience. He founded 3 Silicon Valley companies including Ubicom, a leading IC design house, and has raised over US $ 100 million from top tier VCs such as Mayfield, and successfully launched the first fully functional chip, SX28, with $500K budget in less than 9 months. Subsequently, the Cahners and InStat Group's Electronic Year Book awarded the chip as one of the “Top Ten Processors.”

Besides, Mr. Cheng was the founding team of another 2 Silicon Valley companies including Advancel Logic , which later spun into Cerent and was acquired by Cisco for $7 billion. He previously designed Pentium Compatible, SPARC at SUN/Fujitsu, and NS32000 (the 1st 32-bit CPU in the world) at National Semiconductor.

Mr. Cheng currently holds 9 US patents , and was the designer of one of the top ten processors (Ubicom SX28) in 1998 in the Electronics Industry Yearbook. He is also the designer of the best selling (1980s) lowest cost micro-controller (MCU) (4-bit COP).

Mr. Cheng earned his MS in engineering management from Stanford University, MSEE from Cornell University and BSEE and BSCS from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In addition, Mr. Cheng was the winner of Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong 2005

The 9 U.S. Patents of Mr. Cheng:

1. System & Method for Fault Detection in Microcontroller Program Memory
– US Patent # 5,894,549

2. High Speed, Noise Immune, Single Ended Sensing Scheme For Non-Volatile Memories
– US Patent# 5,949,728

3. Non-intrusive in-system programming using in-system programming circuitry coupled to oscillation circuitry for entering, exiting, and performing in-system programming responsive to oscillation circuitry signals
– US Patent # 6,021,447

4. Jitter free instruction execution
– US Patent# 6,047,351

5. Non-intrusive in-system debugging for a microcontroller with in-system programming capabilities using in-system debugging circuitry and program embedded in-system debugging commands
– US Patent # 6,161,199

6. High-voltage NMOS switch
– US Patent # 6,188,265

7. Single cycle transition pipeline processing using shadow registers
– US Patent# 6,243,804

8. System and method for multi-input wake up in a microcontroller using a single clock
– US Patent# 6,256,746

9. Four Stage Pipeline Processing for a Microcontroller
– US Patent# 6,353,880