Each group of students will deliver the design carried out in the project in the format of the integrated circuit design tool. To pass the course, the design must meet technological standards and it shall comply the required specifications. In addition, each group must submit a detailed project report, with explicit information about the contribution of each of them to the whole, as well as the methodology followed for the distribution and coordination of tasks. Based on this division of tasks, it can be assigned an individual mark to each of the group members.
The evaluation of the projects will be based on a list of items provided previously.
Reports must be submitted on the date indicated in the planning of the course and it will be at least two days prior to the public presentation. To pass the course, students must achieve at least a mark of 5 or higher in a scale of 0-10 in the project (design and reporting).
Competencies C43, B6, B9, B13, and D4 will be assessed in these projects.
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B6 B9 B13
C43
D4
Presentation
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. The mark obtained in the public presentation consists of two parts, a common part for tasks carried out jointly and an individual part of the exposition of each student of his or her work as well as the appropriate interventions at the end of the exposure of other groups. 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 C43, B6, B9, and D4 will be assessed in these presentations.
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B6 B9
C43
D4
Problem and/or exercise solving
As part of the continuous assessment, two written individual tests are conducted. The first evaluation 1-hour written test will be held during one of the classroom sessions, covering course contents lectured so far. The test will consist of short answer questions, accounting for 20% of the global mark.
The second written test will be held at the end of classroom sessions, covering the remaining classroom contents and accounting for 5% of the global mark. This test will be held in conjunction with the test of design problems or exercises more fully described below. The test will last for about an hour, including written test and design problems (or exercises) test.
To pass the course, students must achieve in each of the tests a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies C42 and C43 will be assessed in these tests
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C42 C43
Problem and/or exercise solving
An exam of troubleshooting and / or exercises will be carried out as part of the continuous assessment, accounting for 15% of the global mark. This exam will be held in conjuction with the second written test described in the previous section and it will last for about an hour as a whole.
To pass the course, students must achieve in this exam a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies C42 and C43 will be assessed in this test.
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C42 C43
Laboratory practice
All students, in continuous evaluation or not, must submit the files of the Lab practices. Deadline for submissions will be communicated sufficiently in advance. These submissions account for 10% of the global mark.
All students, in continuous evaluation or not, must submit a complete report based in Lab Assignments 1 and 2 with the achieved results and conclusions according to the indications of the teaching staff. The report is due the indicated date in the planning. The corresponding report account for 10% of the global mark.
A continuous evaluation 1-hour lab exam using an IC CAD tool will be held in the last scheduled lab session. Another similar exam will be held in the date of the final exam. It is compulsory for students not in continuous evaluation. Lab tests account for 10% of the global mark.
To pass the course, students must achieve a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale in each part: lab files submissions, Lab Report and the lab test.
Competencies C43 and B13 will be assessed in this part.
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B13
C43
Other comments on the Evaluation
Continous assesment:
The planning of the different tests of intermediate evaluation will be approved by the "Comisión Académica de Grado" (CAG) and it will be available at the beginning of the semester.
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 4.5 and the weighted summation of
scores.
Global assessment:
Students not in continuous
evaluation will be evaluated as follows:
- Final written and lab tests will account for the same percentage of the
global mark as in the case of students in continuous assessment.
- 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 assessment). Reports are due two days
before public presentation.
- They must
complete all the lab practice files submissions and deliver the Lab written report with the achieved
results and conclusions.
Minimum scores in the different parts for students in global assessment are the same as for students in continuous assessment.
The deadline to renounce to continuos assessment will be one month before the end date of the semester, according to the calendar of the center. The procedure will be by sending an email to the teaching staff requesting the renounce of continuous assessment.
Extraordinary call and End-of-program call.
Requirements to pass the course in these calls will be the same as in the continuos assessment, in terms of the minimum scores. Students must complete the two written tests and the lab test. The practice files, the lab report and the memory of the project must be submitted 7 days before the date of the exam.
