HOW THE WRITTEN PAPER (deadline Wednesday) WILL BE GRADED:
1. Write your motivation for this project. Why you selected it? Why is this important?
How good results of your project will benefit you?
How good results of your project will benefit your company, advance of science?
2. Present literature background.
Who has published in past on this topic? What is known?
What are possible other sources of information?
3. Present clearly what is the problem that you want to solve.
Even if now you do not know how to solve it, it is very helpful to verbalize and formalize
what you want to do? This will help me to help you.
There are no totally new problems, everything is somehow similar to one of problems that are known.
Explain your basic notions and notations. What is your algebra, representation, computational
optimization model. Use information from this class, book, papers and be inventive.
Formalization is important because we clearly see what is the problem, that would be
otherwise vogue and fuzzy.
4. Draw nice figures. Visualize your concepts and ideas. This helps other to understand quickly
the problem and your intuitions.
Many times in the past we were successful by good problem visualization.
This is for instance how we invented KFDDs.
5. Put information, if necessary, to tables and formulas.
6. Try to write it in as good English as possible, but if you are not native-born-speaker,
do not spend too much time on this. Just try to be clear and precize.
7. Organize your paper in a clear way. Assume that we are sending it to a journal.
Look how journal papers are organized.
8. Present clearly your plan of future work: what are the subgoals/milestones, when you
want to reach them. Assume that you work on this in next classes (Winter, Spring).
HOW TO EDIT.
Please do one or more from the below.
a) send me postscript file by email.
b) send me html file by email or tar file with your figures, etc.
c) create your WWW page and send me email where to find it.
d) give me a ready paper in class.
I WOULD PREFER OPTION c) PLUS d).
GUIDELINES ABOUT FINAL REPORT.
- Report written in Latex or other word processor, preverably Latex, with the idea of your project, explanation of your design options and variants, design of control unit and data path, and description of all smart trick or design techniques that you used.
- Full source code with comments, if any, explanation of all names and full annotation at the beginning of each part.
- Full results of simulation. Diagrams with comments. I will not accept diagrams only without your comments on them.
- You have to send me these reports, source code files, and result files by mail as tar files or attachments.
- I need bug report and more comments from all people who used ORCAD tools. Remember, we promised this to ORCAD, who donated us expensive software.
- I need HTML WWW Page with your report send to me by email.
You can edit HTML with vi, Interleaf, Word, or any editor.
Interleaf and Word generate it automatically.
You can use Interleaf or Slidex (Latex2e-based) to generate slides.
Postscript can be converted to HTML using Webify.
Postscript can be converted to gif using ps2gif.
Latex can be converted to HTML using Latex2Html.
Preferable way to create presentations is Power Point, next converted to html and Word.
All your reports will be incorporated to my WWW Page.
You may want to use them in your pages as well.
