1. Instructor: Dr. Phillip Jones
CPRE 583 Reconfigurable Computing Lecture 25: Fri 11/30/2011 (Midterm 2 overview)
Instructor: Dr. Phillip Jones
Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA

2. 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)

3. 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

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

5. 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)

6. Projects: Target Timeline
Work on projects: 10/ /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)

7. 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

8. 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

9. HW3 (Bonus) Overview

10. HW3 (Bonus) Overview

11. Midterm 2 Overview

12. Midterm 2 Overview

13. Midterm 2 Overview

14. Midterm 2 Overview

15. Midterm 2 Overview

16. Midterm 2 Overview

17. Next Lecture
Exam 2

18. Notes
Notes