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Proposal (10%) February 8, 2012

Late submissions will be docked 2% out of the 10% for each day late.

This is a template for your project proposal. It does not have to be in perfect prose (point form is okay). However,

it should clearly convey the intent and planning for the project. Please provide all of the information requested in this

template.

Please pay attention to the requirements for each section. All information requested is required.

Project Title

Project Team

It is expected that a typical team will consist of three members.

For each team member, provide a short biography (no more than half a page) of what skills they bring to your

team.

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your team. Discuss what skills and knowledge you feel will need to be

acquired or improved to make your project successful and how you will address these needs.

Project Description

Describe the project to be implemented. The basic guideline is that your project should incorporate at least one

MicroBlaze processor and a hardware block of your own design.

Describe the functional requirements and features that you wish to achieve. Describe the acceptance criteria

that will be used to determine whether the requirements and features have been satisﬁed.

Include a system block diagram that shows all of the major components in the system. See the link on the course

web site:

for a good example of what is expected in a block diagram. Indicate which components will be the reuse of existing

IP, and which components will have to be implemented. Brieﬂy describe each component.

Note that a component can be hardware or software, i.e., a block in your block diagram could be hardware or

software. Depending on the project, you may need one diagram to describe the hardware system, and one to describe

the structure of your software.

The diagram and its description shows the work that you have put in to ﬁguring out how your system is supposed

to work and it should help you estimate the amount of work required.

Resource Requirements

List other resources you will need such as microphones, VGA monitors, or video cameras. Microphones and VGA

monitors are readily available in the lab. You will have to provide anything else you require, like cameras, but it is

good to know the list.

Milestones

Give an initial estimate of the milestones you hope to accomplish each week for the project starting from now till

the demo. If you know how to do a Gant chart, this would be a good addition, but you should also provide a bit of

explanation of each milestone.

Feb 8 Choose this milestone well. Indicate your planned progress towards your ﬁrst milestone and what you plan to

show or demo.

Feb 15 By this milestone you should have signiﬁcant progress in your design most likely demonstrated by a working

simulation of some hardware. We will build and test blocks widget A and widget B

Feb 22 Complete and test code for software XYZ Control

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