Projects

• You will receive a handout in class with a list of project ideas.
• Talk with the course staff if you'd like to propose your own project idea.
• Piazza can be used to form groups.
• See Recitation 2 for further details on projects.
• Project Guidelines
• LaTeX template

• Project Proposal: Sample 1
• Project Proposal: Sample 2
• Project Proposal: Sample 3

• Pre-Proposal : September 15, 2015
• Proposal: September 25, 2015
• Milestone 1: October 20 and 21, 2015
• Milestone 2: November 10, 2015
• Poster Session: TBD
• Project Report Due: TBD

Format: 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A. Please practice for this length. You will be given a warning at 12 minutes and cut off at 15.

Submission: You must send your slides in pptx format to 740-official@ece.cmu.edu by 5:00pm on October 20th. We will be running all presentations on a staff computer to reduce delay between presenters.

What to present:

• The problem you are solving + your goal
• How is this different from past work? What is your novelty?
• Your solution ideas + strengths and weaknesses
• Your methodology to test your ideas
• Concrete mechanisms you have implemented so far
• Concrete results you have so far
• What will you do next?

Examples:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Presentation Schedule:

October 20th

October 21th

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• Pin dynamic binary instrumentation tool
• Multi2Sim

• Marsx86
• SESC
• Gem5
• Sniper
• GPGPU-sim