Digital Design Project

Digital Design Project The technical report is worth 30% of your module grade. The report should describe your Digital Design Project. Due date: Draft report –week 10 Final report – week 12 Word count: 1000 words (excluding summary & reference list) Your report should follow the structure given below. The assessment rubric should also be considered as you work. Title page - This gives the title of the report, the author’s name and address, and the date when the report was written. Summary - This appears on the second page and is a 200 – 250 word summary     of the complete report. It should outline for the reader why the work was done, how it was done, what the main results were, and what conclusions were drawn from the work. Contents – This follows on the next page and lists all the section headings and     the page numbers on which the various sections appear. 1.    Introduction - This is the first main section of the report. It is generally designated as section 1 and starts on page 1. It should state the aims and objectives of the work and provide the reader with enough background material (drawn from reference sources, e.g. journal and conference papers, texts books and other reports, so background reading is necessary here) to appreciate why it was necessary to carry out the work. 2.    Theoretical – A brief synopsis of the theoretical ideas behind the experimental work should be given under this heading, presenting those equations that you will need to use when testing the experimental data. 3.    Experimental – This section describes all the equipment and experimental techniques used in the work. The description should be supplemented with diagrams. The model number and manufacturer of major items of equipment should be provided. You should indicate the accuracy to which the important experimental variables can be measured with the equipment you describe. 4.    Results – Here you should prepare the reader for the discussion that follows in the next section. In this section you present the raw data obtained in the experiments, either graphically (the preferred method) or tabulated. As each set of data is presented, it must be described in words, and any features of interest pointed out to the reader, e.g. whether a plot is linear or curved, continuous or discontinuous, data points scattered, etc. Generally, the calculation of any required parameter is done in this section. (There is no need to show steps in the calculation – simply tell the reader the number of the equation being used and the values of any parameters that are being substituted.) Here you should tell the reader the overall accuracy to which the required parameter has been calculated from the data. (This is based on the accuracy of the instruments described in the Experimental section, and any errors arising from curve fitting to the data presented in this section. It is meaningless and pointless to give the error between your reading and the accepted value.) 5.    Discussion – This is a very important section of the report, in which you discuss the results in terms of the ideas and concepts introduced in the Theory section and against the background you explored in the Introduction. From this section, the reader should learn to what extent the aims and objectives set out in the introduction have been met. 6.    Conclusions – This section should summarise (i) the main results obtained and (ii) the main conclusions arrived at in the Discussion section. 7.    References – A numbered list of the references used in the report must be included here, using IEEE style. A few general points: All diagrams should be labelled as figures and given consecutive figure numbers as they appear in the text. Label the axes of graphs, providing the names and units of the quantities used in the plots. All equations should be numbered sequentially so that you can refer back to them later. Every time a new parameter is introduced, it should be defined in words. Wherever material from a published source is used or cited in the report, this must be acknowledged by a reference. A guide to IEEE referencing style can be found on Blackboard (see Week 4 workshop). PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT :)