Final Report Specifications

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Final Report Specifications

• EECS150 Fall 2007
• Shah Bawany

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Today

• Upcoming Deadlines
• Final Report Specifications
• Grading
• CP4 Tips

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Upcoming Deadlines

• Regular Check off - In Lab week of 11/26
• Slip days can still be used if you have them
  available.
• They still dont carry over past the weekend so
  11/30 is the last day.
• Partial credit will be assessed based on this
  submission

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Upcoming Deadlines

• Final Report 12/7
• Bring it to lab and turn it in (hard copy).
• Submit soft copy to cs150fa07_at_gmail.com
• You will give a presentation in lab to us on 12/7
  (last Friday of the semester).
• 5 minute Presentation. 5 minute QA.
• Arrive 30 minutes before your presentation so
  that you can set everything up for your
  presentation.
• More detailed information on sign up times will
  follow after Thanksgiving.

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Final Report Specifications

• Cover Page
• Table of Contents
• Abstract
• System Description
• Design Metrics
• Conclusion
• Suggestions
• Appendices

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Final Report - Abstract

• 1 paragraph
• Describe overall project
• Timeline
• General layout
• Un-detailed block diagram if you want

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Final Report - System Description

• 5-6 pages of text
• Diagrams dont count for pages
• For each subsystem
• Description on how it works
• Give detailed block diagrams
• Timing diagrams for that subsystem
• State machine (if applies)

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Final Report - Design Metrics

• 1 page MAX (probably more like 1/4 page)
• LUTs
• Design/implementation time for each checkpoint
• Discussion of design tradeoffs, how things changes

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Final Report - Conclusion

• 1 page
• Extra features you implemented
• Major bugs you encountered (and how you fixed
  them)
• What you would have done differently
• Other things you want to say

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Final Report - Suggestions

• 1-2 paragraphs
• Suggestions about how this project could have
  gone smoother
• Suggestions for class/project in the future

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Final Report - Appendices

• Any other block diagrams that didnt fit in your
  report
• Timing diagrams if not in the report
• Any other diagrams you want to add (that are
  relevant)

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Final Report Page limits

• 10 pages of text
• Table of contents and cover page do not count
• 10 pages of appendices and diagrams
• ANY MORE THAN 20 PAGES WILL BE TORN OFF AND
  IGNORED!!!!

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Grading

• Final report is 5 of your grade
• Graded on
• Clarity
• usefulness

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CP4 Tips

• You may want to use registers instead of the RAM
  module provided
• This checkpoint allows for a lot more creativity
  than the previous ones
• Debug your handshaking systematically. Get
  ANNOUNCE packets working, then INIT_CALL etc.
• Use modelsim when you can, as synthesis/PAR times
  are huge

EECS150 Lab Lecture 11
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11/16/2007
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Thats All

• Keep in mind, you want this report to show all
  the hard work you have done this semester
• Make it so you could hand it to a possible
  employer and they would be impressed
• Good luck with the rest of CP4!