The project proposal should outline the basic idea of your project, not exceeding one page. The description should include:

• topic, scope of the project, and estimate of size of design
  
• team members
• rough time line for the project with initial estimates of dates for completion of each task
• the novelty of the design project
  

The first design review consist of a written report and a 15 minute presentation with prepared PowerPoint slides. The behavioral description of the design, the golden brick, the verification environment, and the floor plan should be completed by this time. The report / presentation should cover the following topics:

• Brief description of the design, including instruction set description, algorithms, protocols, etc., as appropriate.  In particular, highlight the novelty of the project. 
• Chip area / performance / power estimates.
• Proposed architecture of the design and floor plan.
• Verification environment and verification plan .
• Design for test plan.
• Team organization and team assignments.
• Detailed project plan with dates for remaining design steps.
  

The second design review consist of a written report and a 20 minute presentation. At this stage, the following should be completed: verification of the behavioral description using the golden brick, module level synthesis with back annotation and place and route, submodule placement.
The second review report should contain a description of the design that is complete, except for the final stages of integration, global placement / routing and LVS and DRC verification. In addition to updates on topics previously covered in design review 1,  it should cover the following topics:

• Synthesis results.
• Verification results.
• Design for test methodology and results.
  
• Revised Chip area / performance / power estimates.
• Physical design plans.
  

The final design review consist of a written report and a 30 minute presentation. The final design review should contain a complete description of the project in the format for the Design Automation Conference design contest. In addition to the topics covered in Design Reviews 1 and 2, it should contain the following information:

• The design aspects of the project, including final area, timing, and power statistics of the design, and architecture, floorplan and implementation details.
• The design methodology of the project, including the verification results, synthesis, physical design, performance analysis, and design for test. 
• Final test results for the design