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Step 1 : Submit Project Information

Visit : http://www.arl.wustl.edu/arl/projects/fpx/cse535/projects/

– Provide Project Title• What do you plan to design and implement?

– Identify Project Team• Team Leader

– Specialty– Email contact

• Team Member– Specialty ..

• Team Member– Specialty .. (2-3 people should be on a team)

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Step 1 (cont) : Provide Project Information

– Provide Project Description• Provide 2-3 paragraphs of detail

– What will it do ?– How will it do it ?– Where will it connect to the rest of the System on Chip ?

– Identify Project Website• Provide the URL to a homepage hosted by the

project leader

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Step 2 : Motivate the Problem

– What is this problem interesting ?

– How will this component improve the Internet ?

– Why should we care ?

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Step 3: Reference Related Work

– What have others done ?• References

– How did the do it ?

– Why is this problem hard

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Step 4 : Describe your approach

– How do you plan to solve this problem• Theory• Data structures• Diagrams

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Step 5: Specify Interfaces and Components

• Data Interfaces– Entity of new component

• External Memory Interfaces– Number of SRAM interfaces (0..2)– Number of SDRAM interfaces (0..3)

• Estimated Size– Number of LUTs– Number of BlockRAMs

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Step 6: Provide a Block Diagram

• Show how your component will integrated into the System

– Show which interfaces your block will use

– Show how your component interfaces to external SRAM or SDRAM memory (if applicable)

– Examples give on the next page

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Implementation Plan

• Describe the Major Tasks

– Describe the Minor Tasks