Howtowrite&Present Technical Paper

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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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