ECE556 Class Project Guideline
Fall 2004 Semester
The purpose of the class project is to demonstrate you understand the
course materials and are able to implement a basic VLSI CAD tool.
This will be an individual project. Each student enrolled in the
class must submit a project report. The project will be weighted as
30% of the overall grade.
The type of project will be implementation of a basic CAD tool. The
programming requirement is similar to the programming portion of
the homework.
Potential Topics
Refer the Bibliograph in the textbook after chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Select one paper and implement the tool described in the paper. Due to
availability of papers in the library or on-line, limit your choice to papers
after 1980.
Project Activities
- Proposal/Abstract -- One page
proposal describing the problem, the proposed approach, and at least two
references other than text book or class notes. This
abstract should be emailed to the instructor to be published on the web.
It is preferred that this electronic abstract is in ASCII format.
- Project Presentation -- Tuesday December 14, in class
Each project is to be presented using powerpoint, and the file will have
to be submitted to be published on course web site. In addition, in-class
presentation will be scheduled. Each presentation will contain
the following
materials:
- Title page
- Objectives: Which CAD tool you are to implement
- Methods: Several pages, discussing the algorithm, data
structure
- High-light of code: several pages: flow chart, block diagram,
or any representation
that describe the structure of your code
- Results: (if applicable). If not ready, list the expected
format the results are to be presented.
- Discussion: high-light challenges, quality of the result,
lessons learned, etc.
Total number of power point pages should be no more than 10
pages.
Total time for presentation is about 5 minutes
- Final Project Report -- Due noon, December 16,
3625 Engr. Hall
Must be submitted in both hard copy and electronic copy. The hard copy
should be typed and bounded. The electronic copy should be in a zip file
consisting all program source code and report itself.
The format of the final project report is as follows:
- Introduction (Problem statement, Motivation)
- Method, algorithm
- Program structure and highlight
- Results: Performance, code size, etc.
- Discussion