Class Presentation

The purpose of your presentation is for you to become familiar with a particular topic of choice regarding embedded systems and present this topic to the class using a PowerPoint presentation. You will work with your presentation group to prepare the presentation and present this presenation together in class. It will be up to you to determine how to organize the presentation so that all group members get roughly an equal amount of presentation time.

Groups will consist of 2 members only. There will be one group of 3 since we have an odd number of students enrolled in the course. The group of 3 will be the first group that emails me and asks for it.

Presentation details

Each group will have 3 presenation days, one long and one short, of which each presenation will be on a different topic. On the long presentation day, your group will present 2 papers for the entire class period. On the short presentation day, your group will present 1 paper for half the class period. I would expect a good presentation to include enough background information (so you may need to do more background research) so that the audience can understand the purpose of the topic. You will also need to cover the details involved in each paper.

You will need to select 3 topics from the topic list. Two topics will be for your long presentation and one topic will be for your short presentation. There is a set amount of presentations slots for each topic so it will be on a first come first serve basis. As soon as you choose your topic and presentation day, email me and I will lock in that choice for you on the course schedule.

When you prepare your slides, make sure you include the authors names and affiliations, publications details (where and when), and number the slides in the format of X of Y where X is the current slide number and Y is the total number of slides.

After you chose your topics, you will need to find relevent papers to present on that topic. I will not choose the papers for you, but I will need to approve them. The book has many good references so you might find a topic or related papers referenced in the book. The following is a list of some of the top embedded systems conferences. You can find the websites for past offerings of these conferences and look through the conference proceedings to indentify papers of interest. If you find 1 paper that is interesting and are having trouble finding related papers on that topic, you can always look at the related work section of that paper and choose a referenced paper. Here is a list of appropriate conferences, however, some of these conferences include other topics as well as embedded systems. Try and stick within the embedded systems papers

CASES - International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems
CODES+ISSS - International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis
ISLPED - International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design
SOCC - International SOC Conference
LCTES - Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems
DAC - Design Automation Conference
FCCM - IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
DATE - Design, Automation and Test in Europe
ICCAD - International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
FPL - Field Programmable Logic and Applications

Google Scholar and Citeseer are also good locations to find papers.

Embedded System Topics

You will need to chose three topics from the list below. One topic will be for your short (1 paper, half class period) presentation and two topics will be for your long (2 paper, full class period) presentations. The topic numbers below match up with the topic numbers listed on the course schedule, so the topic you choose will dictate the week that you will be presenting.

Topic 1 - Sensor Networks
Topic 2 - Communications
Topic 3 - Aero-space Applications
Topic 4 - Real-time Systems
Topic 5 - Reconfiguable Computing
Topic 6 - Hardware-Software Partitioning and Co-Design Principles
Topic 7 - Memory/Cache Optimization Techniques
Topic 8 - General Low Power/Energy Optimization Techniques
Topic 9 - Architectural Optimzations

Deliverables

You will need to have your papers approved at least two weeks before your presentation date. Please email me your selected papers.

On the day before your presentation, you will need to email me your slides as well as a list of possible test questions and answers. Each member of the group will need to submit questions and answers for each paper that your group is presenting. I have two reasons for these questions. The first is that it requires you to think about your papers at a different level. And second, I will draw on these questions when creating the final so keep that in mind when you create these questions. Remember, you want them to be fairly high level and not focused on details but you don't want them to be too trivial. A portion of your grade will be based on the quality of these questions.