Instructor: Dr. Phillip Jones CPRE 583 Reconfigurable Computing Lecture 25: Fri 11/30/2011 (Midterm 2 overview) Instructor: Dr. Phillip Jones (phjones@iastate.edu) Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, USA http://class.ee.iastate.edu/cpre583/

Announcements/Reminders HW3: will be assigned as extra credit Exam 2 Reminder push back to Friday after Thanksgiving week Note: I will have a substitute administrating the exam since I will be attending a conference. Weekly Project Updates due: Friday’s (midnight)

Project Grading Breakdown 50% Final Project Demo 30% Final Project Report 20% of your project report grade will come from your 5-6 project updates. Friday’s midnight 20% Final Project Presentation

Projects Ideas: Relevant conferences FPL FPT FCCM FPGA DAC ICCAD Reconfig RTSS RTAS ISCA Micro Super Computing HPCA IPDPS

Projects: Target Timeline Teams Formed and Topic: Mon 10/10 Project idea in Power Point 3-5 slides Motivation (why is this interesting, useful) What will be the end result High-level picture of final product Project team list: Name, Responsibility High-level Plan/Proposal: Fri 10/14 Power Point 5-10 slides (presentation to class Wed 10/19) System block diagrams High-level algorithms (if any) Concerns Implementation Conceptual Related research papers (if any)

Projects: Target Timeline Work on projects: 10/19 - 12/9 Weekly update reports More information on updates will be given Presentations: Finals week Present / Demo what is done at this point 15-20 minutes (depends on number of projects) Final write up and Software/Hardware turned in: Day of final (TBD)

Initial Project Proposal Slides (5-10 slides) Project team list: Name, Responsibility (who is project leader) Team size: 3-4 (5 case-by-case) Project idea Motivation (why is this interesting, useful) What will be the end result High-level picture of final product High-level Plan Break project into mile stones Provide initial schedule: I would initially schedule aggressively to have project complete by Thanksgiving. Issues will pop up to cause the schedule to slip. System block diagrams High-level algorithms (if any) Concerns Implementation Conceptual Research papers related to you project idea

Weekly Project Updates The current state of your project write up Even in the early stages of the project you should be able to write a rough draft of the Introduction and Motivation section The current state of your Final Presentation Your Initial Project proposal presentation (Due Wed 10/19). Should make for a starting point for you Final presentation What things are work & not working What roadblocks are you running into

HW3 (Bonus) Overview

HW3 (Bonus) Overview

Midterm 2 Overview

Midterm 2 Overview

Midterm 2 Overview

Midterm 2 Overview

Midterm 2 Overview

Midterm 2 Overview

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