ECE385 requires a 3-week project for all students. Students choose their own 
project, but they need to get approval for the project from one of the TAs, 
in advance. The following guidelines will help you choose the right project.

1) The project has to be substantial enough that it will take at least three 
weeks to complete. More ambitious but reasonable projects are accepted and 
TAs will mark those more generously. 
2) The project should be somehow related to the topics of the course 
including assembly language programming.
3) The project has to involve some sort of hardware.The project cannot be just
 a big software program.

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Marking scheme:

There is a total of 30 marks for the project (equivalent of 3 labs). Some 
projects might get bonus marks based on TA's judgment.

>>> Proposal: (2 marks)
  Students should write one page to describe the project and their goals. 
This proposal should be signed by the TA of your choice (who is going to be 
your TA for the whole project) by the end of lab period next week. In addition
 to describing the project, the students must also provide a schedule of 
milestones. There should be a milestone for each of the three lab periods. 
The students are to indicate what part of the project they expect to have 
accomplished by the end of each lab period.

>>> Lab performance and results: (18 marks)


>>> Written Report for Design Projects: (10 marks)  

The written report is to be a maximum of 6 pages. It'll be due at the 
beginning of the last lecture on Dec 11th. The written report should have the
 following sections in it: 

     Title Page 
         design project title 
         name and student number 
         lab day and TA's name 

   1.Introduction and Motivation 
         1 or 2 paragraphs describing what and why 
   2.Description of the Design Project 
         This is not code!! 
         English description of the code: describes flow of the program and 
	 what the major
         software components are 
         high-level description of any fancy algorithms that are used 
         description of how software interacts with hardware 
         schematics to show how hardware components are hooked up 
   3.Results and conclusion 
         description of how well the project worked 
         description of any problems that were encountered and how they were 
	 solved 

   4.Appendix 
         well-documented and well-written assembly-language program - 
         approval and milestones form 



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Important dates:

- deadline for getting your proposal signed by a TA: End of the lab period of
 the week of Nov 16th (can be extended to any time before your lab on the 
week of Nov 23rd if your TA agrees. In the case of extension, you are 
responsible to arrange with the TA for a time and location to meet. Note that
 TAs are not required to agree with the extension).

- deadline for showing your working project to the TAs: Week of Dec 7th at
 the end of your  lab period.

- deadline for project reports: Friday Dec 11th at the beginning of the class 
(you can submit your report earlier to your TA if you wish)