| Projects |
Each group of students must deliver a detailed written report about the project they developed. Contributions from each team member must be clearly stated and identified. The methodology used for task distribution and coordination within the group must also be clearly explained. Evaluation will be based on:
- Analysis of design alternatives
- Design correctness
- Layout compaction
- Use of adequate layout strategies to minimize the effect of process variations and to assure good matching wherever required.
- Formal issues: structure, clarity, conciseness, and completeness of the report. Use of suitable figures and discussion of significant data.
Reports are due two days before the public presentation of the work. To pass the course, the group the student belongs to must achieve in the report a mark of 5 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies A9, A52, and B4 will be assessed in these projects |
15 |
| Presentations / exhibitions |
Each student must provide an individual 5-minute public presentation of the part of the project he/she carried out (including planning / coordination tasks, if applicable). Presentations will be scheduled in the last (1-hour) classroom session of the corresponding group. At the end of each presentation, the student must give suitable replies to questions from the audience, which will consist of professors and the other students in the group, who must attend the whole session. Evaluation will be based on the content, formal issues, and deliverance of the presentation, as well as on the way the student replies to que questions from the audience. Students asking relevant questions will get additional score for them. To pass the course, the student must achieve in his/her presentation (plus additional score if applicable) a mark of 5 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies A9 and A52 will be assessed in these presentations |
15 |
| Troubleshooting and / or exercises |
A 2-hour written test where students have to solve a design problem will be held in the date of the final exam. It is compulsory for all students, being or not in continuous evaluation. To pass the course, students must achieve in this part a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competency A52 will be assessed in this test |
30 |
| Practical tests, real task execution and / or simulated. |
A continuous evaluation 1-hour lab test using an IC CAD tool will be held in the last scheduled lab session. Another similar test will be held in the date of the final exam. It is compulsory for students not in continuous evaluation. Students in continuous evaluation can also voluntarily complete it. In that case, the score they will receive in this part of the course evaluation will be the one achieved in this second test.
To pass the course, students must achieve in this part a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies A52 and B4 will be assessed in these tests |
20 |
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In order to pass the course, students must achieve a global mark of 5 or higher in a 0-10 scale. The global mark will be obtained as the weighted summation of the scores obtained in the different parts of the course. A minimum score is required in each of these parts. For students not achieving the minimum score in any of the parts, the global mark will be the lower value between 4 and the weighted summation of scores. Students not in continuous evaluation will be evaluated as follows:
- The final written short answer test will account for 20% of the global mark.
- The final written design problem test will account for 30% of the global mark.
- The final lab test will account for 20% of the global mark.
- They must develop a project, and deliver the corresponding report and public presentation (in the same sessions and with the same criteria as students in continuous evaluation). Reports are due two days before the public presentation. The report and the public presentation will account for 15% of the global mark each.
Minimum scores in the different parts for students not in continuous evaluation are the same as for students in continuous evaluation. Students not passing the course in the first call will have the opportunity to attend a second call. Requirements to pass the course will be the same as in the first call. In the second call, students must complete the two written tests and the lab test. No new projects and presentations will be allowed except for students not having achieved the minimum required scores on them. Project reports are due seven days before the date of the test. |
