ECE 385 - SPRING 2008

Term Project Schedule

Project Week 1: March 24-28
Submit a one paragraph project proposal with a rough block diagram.

Project Week 2: March 31 - April 4
Submit a detailed project proposal, block diagram with entities and VHDL code.

Project Week 3: April 7-11
Submit entity descriptions and some VHDL code.

Project Week 4: April 14-18
Submit debugged VHDL code and simulations. Your project should be nearly complete.

Project Week 5: April 21-25
Demo project and submit written project report. Return lab kit. No Extensions!

General Notes

• Your TA will give you feedback on your proposal. If it is too easy or too difficult, the proposal may need to be modified or entirely redone.
• Start working on your project as soon as your TA approves your proposal.
• Break the project down into milestones. Determine what features are critical, and what features can be cut if you fall behind.
• Create simulations while you work on the project, not afterwards. Without comprehensive simulations, it is unlikely that you will be able to debug your project.
• Get your project running on hardware as soon as possible. Running the code on hardware will allow you to catch problems that the simulations might not reveal.