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 the following aspects:
- Theoretical calculations carried out for design.
- Analysis of design alternatives.
- Successfully implementation and design verification for compliance with specifications.
- Layout compaction.
- Use of adequate layout strategies to minimize the effects of imperfections in the manufacturing process and to assure good matching of the electrical characteristics of the sets of components or devices that require it for functional reasons.
- Formal issues: structure, clarity, conciseness, and completeness of the report. Use of suitable figures and discussion of significant data.
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 CE43, CG6, CG9, CG13, and CT4 will be assessed in these projects.
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B6 B9 B13
C43
D4
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. 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 CE43, CG6, CG9, and CT4 will be assessed in these presentations.
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B6 B9
C43
D4
Short answer tests
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. This test is the last chance for students to decide whether or not they opt for continuous evaluation. All students completing the test implicitly choose to follow continuous evaluation. The remaining students have to explicitly declare their choice. The lack of declaration from a student means he/she will not follow continuous evaluation. 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.
Both tests (covering the same course contents and with the same duration and evaluation criteria) will be held in the date of the final exam. They are 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 each of the tests (the second one will also consist of design problems or exercises more fully described in next section) a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies CE42 and CE43 will be assessed in these tests
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C42 C43
Troubleshooting and / or exercises
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. Students in continuous evaluation can also voluntarily complete it again in the date of the final exam. In that case, the score they will receive in this part of the course evaluation will be the one achieved in this second test.
For students not in continuous evaluation it is compulsory to carry out this exam (with the same structure, duration and evaluation criteria) on the date of the final exam.
To pass the course, students must achieve in this exam (also consisting of short answer questions as described above) a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale.
Competencies CE42 and CE43 will be assessed in this test.
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C42 C43
Practical tests, real task execution and / or simulated.
All students, in continuous evaluation or not, must complete Lab Assignment 2 and deliver a written report with the achieved results and conclusions. The report is due before the last scheduled lab session. Lab assignment 2 and the corresponding report account for 15% of the global mark.
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. Lab tests account for 15% of the global mark.
To pass the course, students must achieve a mark or 4 or higher in a 0-10 scale in both Lab Assignment 2 and the lab test.
Competencies CE43 and CG13 will be assessed in this part
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B13
C43
Other comments on the Evaluation
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:
- Final written and lab tests will account for the same percentage of the
global mark as in the case of students in continuous evaluation.
- 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 public presentation.
- They must
complete Lab Assignment 2 and deliver a written report with the achieved
results and conclusions.
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.
Students who achieved the
minimum scores in written and lab tests but not in project reports or
presentations, will not need to complete the tests again, but only deliver
project reports and presentations. However, they can voluntarily (in written)
give up tests scores (at least seven days before the date of the second call)
and complete all the tests again.
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