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R. K. Rathore
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How to write and present Technical
Papers
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Objective
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The hidden motive: To entice you to participate in theControl net internal workshop
At the end of this talk, you should be in a position to
appreciate what formal writing style is, and how
formal paper presentations are made.
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Outline of this
presentation
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What is a technical paper?
How does one write a technical paper?
How is a technical paper presented?
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Writing a paper is
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A lot like chip design
You need
Conceptualization
Floorplanning and layout
Interconnections
DRC and ERC
Testing
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What is a technical paper?
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A brief and to-the-point document whichdescribes a body of technical work
There are many types of technical papers
Original research papers Survey papers
Journal papers
Conference papers
Letters
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Getting ready to write a paper
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What type of paper am I writing? What do I wish to state?
Have I got all the background work with me?
Have I organized the paper?
What electronic format will I use? LaTeX, MS Word,
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Organizing a paper
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Title of the paper Authors, designations, and addresses
Abstract (100 to 150 words)
Keywords
Sections describing the work Introduction (Background)
Previous Work (Literature Survey)
Proposed Work (Algorithm, Design, Methodology)
Analysis (Complexity Analysis, Quantitative Analysis,
Statistical Analysis, ) Implementation and Results
Conclusions
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Abstract
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Summary of your work
Entices the reader to read on
Must bring out the novelty of your work
Must be brief (100 to 150 words)
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Introduction
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Introduction to the problem Why is it worth solving?
What did others do?
Why did they not succeed?
Why do I believe I did better? Contribution of the paper
Is there anything new in the paper?
How good are your results?
Is your survey different from other availablesurveys?
Introduction to the paperitself
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Literature Survey
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Brief description of the existing body of work Citations to published work
In[2], Rosetti and Longfellow described themeaning of life. Wordsworth presented a different
view point in[3] Bring out the specific advantage of your work
w.r.t. published work. However, the Rosetti-Longfellow formula [2] fails for
technologies below 0.2 micron. In this paper, weextend their formula to the deep submicron domain.
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Sections and Subsections
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Organize each section into subsections and(possibly) sub-subsections
1. Introduction
1.1 Problem Description
1.1.1 Inductance Extraction
1.1.2 Transmission Line Models
1.2 Organization of the paper
In Section 2, we summarize the previous work in thisarea. In Section 3, we present a new algorithm for
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Main body of work
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Organize your work into sections and sub-sections.
3. New Algorithm for Graph Partitioning
3.1 Genetic Algorithm
3.2 Data Structures
3.2 Crossover Operator
3.3 Convergence Criterion
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Analyze your work
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This is my work
This is competitor's work
This is the best
any one could everget
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Types of Analysis
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Quantitative Analysis Present numerical results: size of the chip, clock
rating, power dissipation,
Present tables: Run-time of your algorithm for
several benchmark examples
Present graphs: Chip Area Vs Clock Frequency
Present improvement figures: Our optimizationalgorithm resulted in a 20% reduction in chip area
for the sp292 benchmark circuit
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Comparative Analysis
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Comparing two different approaches to the sameproblem
Tabulate results for two different heuristics
Comparing the performance for two differentparameters
Tabulate results for two different technologies/voltage values/
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Graphic Items
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They say one picture is equal to
65,536 pixels
Include at least one or two graphic items
Figures Pictures, Photographs, Algorithms, Plots
Tables
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Figures and Tables
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Number all the figures and tables
Graphs are also shown as figures
Provide captions for all figures and tables
Figure 3. Floorplan of the SONAR Chip Refer to each figure and table.
In Figure 3, we show the floorplan of the SONARChip as obtained using the MASON software [4].
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The Conclusions Section
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State what was achieved in the paper Were you able to come to some definite
conclusions? We presented two algorithms, A1 and A2, for the
floorplanning problem. Our experimental resultsindicate that A1 outperforms A2 in terms of solutionquality, but requires about 100% more time than A2in most cases.
Be frank about the limitations of your work Point out directions for further work
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References
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[1] A.V. Aho, D. Hopcroft, and J.D. Ullman.Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Addison-Wesley, 1974.
[2] C. Rosetti and H.W. Longfellow. Life and its
Meaning, Proceedings of the 14thInternational Conference of the Dead Poets,1999, 334-339.
[3] W. Wordsworth. Daffodils, In Collected
Poems of William Wordsworth, Ed. R.Roselin, Artech House, 1976.
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Writing Style
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Use simple sentences, unless you arecomfortable writing complex and compoundsentences
Avoid repetition Make use of the grammar and spelling
checker, but exercise caution
Will a figure or table be able to say the same
thing more effectively?
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Presenting your work
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Who is my audience? What is the purpose of my presentation?
What should I talk about?
How much time do I have?
How many slides should I make?
How should I handle questions?
Rehearsals
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Are you ready to start writing?
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