Guide for EE499 Design Review

Individuals must turn in their own written design review package. Design review packages from members of the same team are expected to be similar though they do not have to be exactly the same since some team members may have understood the design issues better than others.

Contents of the Design Review Package (General)

· Summary of the design.

· Demonstrate you understand the design issues.

· Include alternatives considered, final choices made, reasons for choices.

· You want to answer the question why, for each choice you have made.

· Design calculations and/or simulation results or timing calculations and word size calculations that demonstrate the design meets its requirements.

· You want to demonstrate to the reader that your design will meet its requirements and perform its desired function and that you are ready to proceed to fabrication.

· Be generous with schematics, tables of results, drawings, waveforms etc.

· Discussion of the schedule and an assessment of whether you are behind, on, or ahead of schedule

Required Design Review Package Sections

· Introduction

· Updated description of the problem

· Updated proposed method of solution

Detailed specification

Block diagram

· Updated Ghant chart (schedule)

· Design calculations

· Simulation results

· Schematic or flow chart

· Component stresses or timing calculations

· Parts list

Budget

· Executive summary

Include a list of show stoppers

· References

Guide for EE499 Design Review

Presentation

· Present the information in the design review package.

· Use Power Point.

· Each team will speak for 20 minutes. This means each team should have about 10 to 20 slides.

· Slides should include schematics, tables of results, drawings, waveforms etc.

· Slides should have few words, the speaker provides the words, explains the schematics, gives the significance of the numbers in the tables, and gives the significance of waveforms.

· Slides should have few equations, only the most important if needed to explain an important point.

· You want to demonstrate to the audience that your design will meet its requirements and perform its desired function and that you are ready to proceed to fabrication.

· The last speaker for a team must summarize the results and present a discussion of the schedule and an assessment of whether you are behind, on, or ahead of schedule.

· Be prepared to answer questions. Any member of the class as well as the instructor may ask questions during your presentation.