This seminar course will survey a number of interesting, topical papers in the general area of analog and RF simulation.
Presentation Schedule and Paper Assignments
Presentations (protected access)
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
- Credits: 1
- Time: see the schedule
- Location: EE/CSc 4-146, see the schedule
- Instructor: Jaijeet Roychowdhury, 4-155 EE/CSci, jr at ece.umn.edu
- Grading: A-F grades will be assigned based on performance in presentations and reports.
Guidelines for Seminar Presentations
- Each paper must be presented with conference-quality electronic slides. Plan about 1-1.5 minutes per slide, and about 40 minutes if uninterrupted. Practicing your talk before delivery in the class is recommended.
- Unlike conference presentations, expect to be interrupted frequently and asked questions. With discussion and questions, the presentation may last upto two hours.
- The main requirement is in depth understanding of not only the paper(s) assigned, but also all relevant concepts they depend on. Therefore, the papers assigned represent only the end-point of your learning process; you will need to go backwards, find other previous related papers/books on your own, as needed, to understand this material. Start preparing your presentation by listing and explaining all relevant preliminary concepts; using slides to organize this is recommended. You will be asked questions and will need to defend your understanding of the material.
- The presentation should be given in a tutorial style, so that the audience is motivated and educated. You must address the following points in your talk:
- What is the topic, and why is it important/meaningful/interesting?
- What previous related work exists and is needed to understand your presentation? Provide a dependency graph of papers/books/concepts you had to read up to make sense of of the paper(s) assigned.
- What is(are) the main contribution(s) of the paper(s), and how are they different from what existed previously? When a group of related papers is assigned, summarize the differential contribution of each and comment on their placement with respect to each other.
- The main presentation should contain a step-by-step exposition of the concepts (including background), tied together logically. Expect to be stopped frequently and asked about each point in depth.
- If your presentation is unsatisfactory, you will be asked to submit an in-depth paper-style report that addresses the shortcomings identified.