The goal of this aspect of the class is to document your work in a way that is suitable for publication or public presentation. The final documents should look like an IEEE conference or journal paper or presentation. The assignements are structured so that you will incrementally build your report. Duplication of work should be avoided if you follow the cascading requirements! The proposal and reports should build upon each other incrementally until the final report is done. This reporting is not a substitute for a good lab notebook.

Project Proposal - 2 points

A pdf proposal not exceeding two pages that outlines your project, including:
• Topic and team members
• Short (3-4 sentence) abstract
• Introduction and motivation of the project.
• Scope of the project, design approach, and estimate of design size
• Estimated tasks and milestones with completion dates.
• If you plan on fabricating your design.

Paper Review - 5 points

All students in the 6710 section must individually review and report on one published conference or journal article related to VLSI. This paper cannot be the same as another team member. This paper should be related to your project, but that is not a requirement. If this is related to your project, a very short summary of your report (one paragraph) should be added to your final design report. Be sure to include a full reference of your paper in your report.

This pdf report should not exceed two pages. Its grade will be integrated into the grade of your final report.

Final Report - 12 points:

You will hand in a written report (9 points) and give a 8-10 minute presentation (4 points) at the end of the semester. The final design review should contain a complete description of the project in the format for the Design Automation Conference design contest or article. This should be a compendium of the work in the proposal and (for 6710 students) the paper review, including:
• Topic and team members
• Short (3-4 sentence) abstract
• Introduction and motivation of the project.
• For 6710 projects: related work based on papers you reviewed.
• If you will fabricating your design.
• Block level design and description of the project. Include pertinent information such as instruction set, algorithms, protocols, etc.
• Simulated results of your design project, including area, performance and power of the design.
• Conclusions and lessons learned in this project.
• Bibliography and/or acknowledgments as appropriate.

Presentations and written documents will be graded as follows:

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