ECE 410 Design Project Guide Spring 2008 Document Organization Design Project Schedule Design Project Overview Deliverables Grading Design Project Proposal Guidelines Design Project Report Guidelines Design Project Schedule – Draft Proposals: Monday, March 24 (in class) – Lab 8: by Friday March 28 (in lab progress check & proposal discussion) – Proposals: Monday, March 31 (in class) (final Proposal due) – Lab 9: by Friday April 4 (in lab check off, Phase 1) – Lab 10: by Friday April 18 (in lab check off, Phase 2) – Final Demo: by Wednesday April 23 (in lab final demonstration) – Report: by Wed, April 30 (by 12pm-noon) • submit reports electronically, in Word or PDF, file size less than 3MB Design Project Overview Design projects will be completed in 3-person teams during the final five weeks of class. To organize the activities of the design team, a Design Project Proposal is required which will list all cells to be designed and assign a team member to each design/simulation task. To assist groups in preparing effective and useful proposals, you must prepare a draft proposal and discuss it with a TA for feedback on your circuit design ideas and project organization plan. To ensure teams make sufficient progress over the six-week design period, Labs 8-10 will be organized to check off your efforts. By Lab 8, design teams should have completed roughly 30% of their overall design goals and verify this through the standard check-off procedure. Although you are free to organize your efforts as you wish, normally teams would show a complete ALU design and simulation at Lab 8 and solid progress into layout or register file design. By Lab 9, roughly 60% of your tasks should be completed, with teams nominally showing all schematic design complete, all functions verified with simulations, and some layout done. By Lab 10 (one week after exam 2), all layout should be completed and preliminary post-layout simulations should be ready. Lab 8-10 check offs must be preformed with a TA by the dates listed above. Ideally all team members will be present, but fewer can do the check offs if necessary. At the end of the design phase, all members of the team must meet in the lab with the instructor to demonstrate the completeness and quality of their design project. Be prepared to show everything, including final layouts and final timing measurements. After this Final Demo, no schematic or layouts can be modified, although you are allowed to run some additional simulations, measure circuit performance, and save figures, provided you open cells in read-only mode. Following the design effort, reports will be written according to the guidelines covered below and must include specific information defined in the Project Description. It is preferred that project reports be submitted electronically to the instructor (email to [email protected]), but printed copies are acceptable. Project reports can be submitted any time after the Final Demo but must be turned in by 12pm on the following Wednesday of finals week.ECE410, Spring 2008 Design Project Guide Prof. Andrew Mason Deliverables Design Project Proposal (due in class Monday, March 24 (draft) & Monday March 31 (final)) Each group must write a Design Project Proposal which briefly but thoroughly outlines the team’s plan to complete the project. Details are provided below. You must first submit a draft proposal (March 24) and then meet with the TA sometime that week to 1) demonstrate program on the design project (Lab 8 check off) and 2) discuss your draft proposal (Proposal check off), receiving feedback you will use to complete the final proposal. You will need both a Lab 8 Grading Sheet and a Proposal Grading Sheet when you meet with the TA. Expect the check off to take more time than previous labs, ~15 minutes per group. Final proposals, updated from draft form, must be turned in by the following Monday (March 31). Lab 8 (in lab Friday March 28) As described under Design Project Proposal, you must meet with the TA by the deadline above. Lab 9 (in lab Friday April 4) By the deadline above, at least one member of your team must meet with the instructor/TA to demonstrate what you have accomplished thus far. The team member(s) are required to have a copy of their proposal and point out where they have met and failed to meet their work plan schedule. This meeting will be similar to a lab check off, but may take 15 minutes or so. It gives each team an opportunity to ensure they are making sufficient progress and ask questions about future tasks. A Design Project Grading Sheet must be submitted during the meeting. You will be assigned 0-10 points for completeness and 0-10 points for quality, counting toward your design project grade. Lab 10 (in lab Friday April 18) By the deadline above, at least one member of your team must meet with the instructor/TA to demonstrate what you have accomplished since Lab 9. A Design Project Grading Sheet must be submitted during the meeting. Final Demonstrations (in lab by Wednesday April 23) Demonstrations to the instructor will take place in a computer lab and should be attended by all team members. The team should prepare for the demonstration BEFORE the scheduled demo by having 1-2 computers ready to show schematics/layouts/simulations in Cadence. The team will be given ~20 minutes to present their design during which they should point out any unique or interesting features of their design. Following this, each member of the team will individually be given 1-2 minutes to describe his/her contributions to the design project. The TA and instructor will then verify the final DRC and LVS have been passed and will perform simulations on the final cell to verify proper operation of several test cases. A sign-up sheet will be passed out in class for each team to select a time slot. After Final Demonstration, design files can not be edited in any way and can only be opened in read-only format to extract figures, take measurements, or run simulations for use in your report. Project Report (Wednesday April 30) The final project report should be as brief as possible while still providing the required information in a well-organized and informative manner. Specific guidelines for the team-generated report are given below. Each team member must also complete an individual project analysis using the format from the group lab (Lab 6). The quality and completeness of your design
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