Written Report

You will be required to hand in a written report describing your project, which is due Friday December 4th, at 5pm in Room Pratt 484. The report should have a maximum of 1500 words and contain the following sections:

• Introduction/Motivation - what you're doing and why.
• A description of the design, in both illustrations (block diagram) and words. This should be a well-written easy-to-read document!
• A description of the working/not working status of the project. If it did not work, indicate the reasons why you think it didn't work.
• Indicate what you would do differently if your were to start the project over again. What did you learn?

INCLUDE as appendices: your design files (graphic design files and VHDL files) as well as any simulation output files that illustrate the working of your project.

The project accounts for 10% of your overall grade. This will be a total of 30 marks broken down in the following way:

1st Lab Prep in the first lab project period, a mark out of 5. The mark will be based on the quality of the preparation - you must come with one period's worth of work to do in the lab, using the lab facilities. You shouldn't be doing design work here, but implementation.

Technical Quality A grade out of 20 on how good your design is. Did you choose a reasonable implementation or did you come up with a complicated solution? Have you taken a good design approach, considering partitioning and hierarchy? How well does it work? This mark is based both on the report and the observations of your supervising TA in all of the labs.

Report Writing Quality A grade out of 5 on the quality of the written document. In industry, good technical work usually goes un-noticed unless it is documented well.