Your lab write-ups will be submitted as one PDF file through Canvas. They will be due about a week after the lab demo is due. The exact due dates will be announced in the lab assignment and on the CMPE100 home page.

The lab write-up consists of your report and includes the supplementary material requested for the lab as appendices. Please use your own words in the report. A good way to do this is to write the purpose, methods, results and conclusion looking only at your notebook and design, not the lab assignment page. Look at the lab assignment page only after you have a first draft to see if you are missing key elements and to make sure you provide any required answers and data in your results section. Submit the report and the supplementary material for each lab write-up on-line through eCommons as one PDF file. Please follow these directions closely.

Report

• Lab number, your name, date, and which section you attended.
  No need for a separate cover page, but all of this information should be at the top of the first page.
• A description of the purpose of the lab.
• Methods: essentially what you did.
• Results: anything you determined, any answers to questions posed in the lab assignment, any designs.
• Conclusion
• Supplementary material as appendices. Schematics and Verilog files can be printed to PDF files directly from the Vivado Project Manager. Use the cntrl-P from the window you want to print. You will be prompted for the file output.
• Simulation waveforms (beginning with Lab 2) will need to be obtained from a screen snapshots.
• Scan/photograph all the pages of your notebook for this lab (that is, start with the first page that was not part of the previous lab and end with the last page of the current lab). Include these image files as the last appendix of your lab report. Please reduce the resolution to keep the file sizes down, but make sure the scans are still readable.

On-line Submission

Each lab write-up assignment in Canvas has a rubric which you may want to consult.

Lab Write-ups may be submitted up to 4 days after the due date but they will be penalized 20% for each day late. After 4 days the write-up assignment closes and you will receive a 0 and have failed both CMPE 100 and CMPE 100L. Resubmission is allowed up to the close date but late penalties will be assessed on the basis of your last submission date. Consider carefully whether resubmitting after the due date would improve your grade taking into account the late penalty.

For Labs 2 through 7 you will also be submitting your entire Vivado project as a zip file. This is separate from the Lab report(write-up).

Remember:

• Do not copy from the lab assignment; you must use your own words in your lab write-up.
• Label all Figures and Tables (e.g. Figure 19 or Table 254) and refer to them in your text.

Take a look at this sample 100L lab write-up to see a good lab report. Note that this is from an ancient offering and is missing the scans of your lab notebook pages which you must attach.