| 1.  | Project Proposal by September 23 |
|     | Browse the programs of recent ISCA/MICRO/HPCA/ASPLOS/OSDI/SOSP/S&P/SEC conferences in the area of computer architecture; |
|     | Find a research topic you are interested in; |
|     | Read state-of-the-art papers as well as recent related papers in top venues; |
|     | Discover their common limitations and propose a feasible solution; |
| 2.  | Report |
|     | What is the research problem? |
|     | Why is it important? |
|     | How does the state of the art address it? |
|     | Any limitations? |
|     | What would you do? Learn from Research Patterns by Prof. Nick Feamster from Princeton. |
| 3.  | Prototype |
| 4.  | Presentation |
| 20%       |
Report: follow ISCA/MICRO/HPCA/ASPLOS/OSDI/SOSP/S&P/SEC template and organization check out our first computer architecture paper |
| 6% | Prototype |
| 6% | Presentation |