Project Scope

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Project Scope

• Requirements specification, design,
  implementation, and testing
• incorporate engineering standards and realistic
  constraints that include most of the following
  considerations economic, environmental,
  sustainability, manufacturability, ethical,
  health and safety, social, and political.
• CmpE Projects must include both hardware and
  software components and trade-offs
• Reporting formal written project proposals,
  progress reports, final reports, and oral
  presentations

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Considerations

• Application
• What are you doing and why is it novel and
  necessary?
• Market
• Who is the customer?
• Cost
• What is the design cost estimate plus parts and
  manufacturing costs?
• Sales Volume
• How many would you sell per year? Will it trail
  off after one year?
• Support
• How will you support the customer?

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How to Get Parts

• Borrow Parts
• Edgar Jones and James Steinberg, VL C352 C329,
  have a collection from previous semesters (act
  quickly)
• Buy Parts
• Student Funds you buy it, you own it
• GT Funds each group gets a budget of 100 per
  person in the group, GT owns it (order from Edgar
  Jones or James Steinberg)
• Company loan or gift

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Design Process

• Determine application
• Write specification
• Hardware block diagram
• Software block diagram
• Determine/order parts
• Test parts of the project
• Integrate all parts together

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Group Formation

• Responsibilities
• Big picture and leadership, technical design,
  hardware, software, testing, integration, cost
  analysis, reporting
• Group Pitfalls
• My Way or the Highway
• You do the work, Ill take the credit
• Group Intelligence (more than the sum)
• Each person contributes equally and all
  suggestions are considered seriously

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Computer Engineering Projects

• Processor
• Number, Type, Speed, Control, Instruction Set,
  Development System, Debugging, Assembler/Compiler
• Interfaces
• Number, type, compatibility, capabilities,
  current/voltage levels, control