ECE 284:Special Topics in Computer

Engineering

On-Chip Interconnection Networks

Prof. Bill LinSpring 2014

Logistics

• Website

http://cwc.ucsd.edu/~billlin/classes/ECE284/index.php

• Professor Bill Lin– Office hours: Tu/Th 2:00-3:00pm,

4310 Atkinson Hall

• Class: Tu Th 3:30-4:50p, CENTER 220

Structure of the Course

• This is largely a “Paper Review” course with a “Final Term Paper”.

• Paper review will be done individually. Each student will present a lecture talk on the reviewed paper(s).

• Final term paper will be done individually by each student on a possible new direction on some topic or a detailed survey paper on some topic.

Paper Review

• See class website for the current working list of papers.

• Each student selects a topic, which corresponds typically to one paper, but possibly the topic spans two papers, the second one being a follow-up paper.

• Each student presents a lecture to a class. Talk should be about 30 minutes.

Paper Review (cont’d)

• You are allowed to use slides from the Internet, but you must clearly indicate this in your first slide (“the slides of these presentations were taken from ...”).

• You can add your own slides too.

Paper Review (cont’d)

• Very important that every lecture starts with (a) background; (b) related work.

• “Background” means that you cover topics that are necessary for understanding your lecture and most students are not likely to know.

• “Related Work” is usually a section in the paper. (This can be brief.)

• A typical talk structure will be: 1) Introduction, 2) Background, 3) Related Work, 4) ... 5) ...6) ... 7) Summary.

Paper Review (cont’d)

• If you present “early” or present a paper to which there are no slides available on the Internet, then you will be given extra “slack” to compensate.

Final Term Paper

• The final term paper can be either of the following:– New idea:

• Expand on a possible research direction related to one of the course lectures (not necessarily the one that you gave).

• Describe the open problem being considered, and describe clearly the high-level idea and a plausible research direction to pursue and validate the idea.

– Survey paper:• Select 4 or more papers in an area and write a detailed survey

paper about them.

• Due finals week. Report should be written in LaTeX (preferrably LaTeX) or Word.

Course Grade

• 60% for the lecture (paper review)• 30% for the final term paper• 10% active participation in the course

In order to get a grade, you must attend all the meetings.