CS250: VLSI Systems Design
Spring 2007

Final Project Report Guidelines:

Your report should be similar in length to a conference paper - around five pages, not including figures and illustration. If you feel that you cannot adequately represent your work in five pages, you may make it a bit longer. However, if you find yourself going on for many pages, consider moving some of the material to an appendix. Fewer than five pages is also acceptable, but make sure that you comprehensively cover your work.

Your report should stand on its own without the reader having any prior knowledge of your project (don't assume you don't need to cover something, because it was in your oral report). However, you can assume your reader does have some prior knowledge of the topic area, Your target audience is a peer (say, CS250 classmate).

Following is a rough outline template for your report. Yours can deviate from this, but make sure you cover all of the following topics. Remember, "a picture is worth a thousand words", so I encourage you to use numerous figures and illustrations.

Outline Sketch:

Introduction:

Describe project goals and objectives; what you are attempting to learn from this work; why you think (or at least thought) this is important.

(Optional) Related and Prior Work:

Briefly describe other work with similar objectives or other work you have built on.

Technical Approach:

Describe the methods, techniques, tools, etc. that you used to achieve your technical goals.

Results:

Describe how it turned out. Present detailed quantitative results and any analysis you achieved.

Conclusions and Future Directions:

Summarize what you learned. Describe what should (or could) be done next along these lines.

References:

Bibliography of cited papers and webpages.

Acknowledgments:

Describe who did what within and outside your project group.

Before you turn it in, please check your report for grammar and spelling.