|-----------------------------------------Weekly Meeting Minutes--------------------------------------------| Team Meetings 9-14-10 (Without Ken) -First Team Meeting -Elected Tom as the Team Leader -Elected Miked as the technical lead -Lavander chooses to be the secretary to record the meetings -Decided that we need to create the project website so we can update team progress -Team meatings will be meeting with Ken on wednesdays at 3pm when needed -We will need to meet every tuesdays as a team -Need to brush up on our Verilog skills and become familiar with HSimPlus -Getting manuals on HSimPlus would be a big help -Learn more about Spice models 9-15-10 (With Ken) -Tim will be visiting during last week of October -Need to do presentations with CLEAR -Ken will be gone during first week of October -Will be able to use Micron group page to build team website -need to start looking to individual team jobs 9-22-10 (With Ken) -Decided we'll go with the Multiphase Analysis to determine accuracy -New Development a company Apache may let us use thier program which may have new possibilities for the project -Website is almost done. Each member must upload personal updates. -ken went through personal writing presentation -ken says he'll do presentations on any topic that we may get hung up on 9-22-10 (Without Ken) -Website is ready to go -Need to define team roles and start working on proposal Mike & Tom- work on multiphase analysis Travis- voltage controlled resistor Lavander- make comparisons between HSimplus and Apache (if we're able to use it) -Need to discuss these roles with Ken -Each member as a task write an abstract of the project by next team meeting 9-28-10 (without Ken) -Need to start work on proposal. It's due in 2 weeks. -Individual team members need to do a abstract so we can develop a better understanding of the project. -Better to do team meetings after the meeting with Ken. -Broke up work on Team Proposal into pieces for each member 1. Intro- Travis 2. Background- Lavander 3. Methods- Mike 4. Contingency Plan- Tom As a team, we'll work on Gantt and References as a team. 9-29-10 (With Ken) -Discussed our plan with Ken. -Apache program maybe a risk to the team since its a smaller company. May not get license. -Tim will be visiting on the 27th. -Need to send Tim a email to try to get the Apache program for the project. (cc everyone) 10-6-10 (without Ken) -Ken is out of town. -Worked on Team Gantt chart. -Each team member needs to email thier portion of the proposal to Tom by friday night at midnight. -Rough draft of proposal due next wednesday. -Turn in a copy to Ken and CLEAR Center. Week of 10-18 - Fall Break - Put together Proposal (Rough Draft) 10-27-10 Had to present proposal to Tim Hollis. Went well and He liked it. One thing that he suggested was that we not have Apache in the project since it would require too much learning and may not happen. So Lavander would be help out with the Voltage Controlled Resistor aspect of the project. 11-3-10 11-10-10 - No Team meetings. 11-17-10 Had team meeting with Ken. Mike had questions for Ken about output file formats and accuracy of measurements. -Look at waveforms. MATLab would be great for curve fitting. -Plan for having a presentation with CLEAR center on December 1st. each member will present for 10 minutes on what they have done for the project so far. 11-24-10 No Team meeting this week. (THANKSGIVING) 11-31-10 Met to discuss the upcoming presentation that will be done with the Clear Center. Due to bad luck, the presentation will be delayed one week til Dec. 8. Until then Tom instructed team members to work on thier slides and work out all the little problems (Grammar, using correct font size, etc..) 12-5-10 Have group presentation of project with Clear Center on Dec. 8. Week of 11/22/10 thanksgiving week read up more about VCR and methods of implementation. Week of 12/1/10 Prepare slides for Powerpoint presentation with CLEAR instructor. Week of 12/8/10 Had presentation with CLEAR instructor Julie on our project.Presentation went well. 12/10/10 - 1/13/11 Winter Break was too busy to do any work on the project. Week of 1/19/11 Had group meeting. Decided that we will work on having team meetings every week on thursday at 9 am. Will work in groups of 2 on portions of project. will document everything. Week of 1/26/11 Had another group meeting with Ken. It was decided that each individual team member would need to decide their part in each portion before the next team meeting on the 3rd. Travis and Ken had some discrepancy between what was to be done with the VCR. Travis will email Tim Hollis for some clarification. Week of 2/3/11 Had a team meeting to see where the team is. -Tom and Mike are doing alright. -Lavander and Travis have run into some trouble with having to get the VCR implemented into the 2 phase simulations. -Ken said it would be very unlikely that we would be able to accomplish this. It was decided that we would instead focus on determining the accuracy of the VCR and if it can recreate the currents within the circuit. -Also will look into seeing if we could come up with a way to manual do a 2nd phase simulation with the VCR. -We will meet again next week to see what has been done so far on the 10th. Week of 2/10/11 -Met with Ken again to discuss the team progress. -Mike is almost done with the script files to hand off to Tom for simulations. -Travis is working on file to run simulation on VCR. -Lavander is working on getting to manually run 2phase testing on the VCR model. -Also Travis will be updating Tim Hollis on team's progress so far. -Mike will help VCR group with scripts after he's done with the multiphase scripts. He will then work on the paper to get headstart in order to meet March 18th deadline. Week of 2/24/11 -Had a group meeting today with Tim Hollis also wanting to see how the group was progressing. -Tom is doing well on his part of the Multiphase portion. -Mike is gonna help Travis and Lavander with a script he created for use on the VCR. -Ken helped with a good approach for the simulation of the VCR. -Will meet again possibly in 2 weeks to check on results. -Paper is due on the 18th. Week of 3/4/11 -Had a group meeting with Ken to check progress with the group. -Mike is working on team paper but will require us to provide our portions later to met the March 18th deadline. -Team presentation lineup was decided. 1. Mike -intro 2. Tom -multiphase 3. Travis -VCR 4. Lavander -VCR/conclusion -Need to set up a time to met with Julie to give a preliminary presentation to before spring break. Week of 3/10/11 -Set up a time to met with Julie before spring break on March 17th. Week of 3/25/11 Spring Break Week of 4/1/11 -Technical Open House - Met with Tim Hollis at the open house. - Discussed how the presentation went and said he has some ideas of what we could do next. - Need to schedule a time to do a Design Review. Week of 4/8/11 - Scheduled design review for April 14th. - Get files in order. - Need to create readme files for all our work so that Tim or Ken could go in there and see what we done. - Rework powerpoint slides to flow with final report. Week of 4/15/11 - Met for design review. - Ken looked over our work. - Need to finish up little things for the final paper. Week of 4/22/11 - Met to discuss final paper. - Want final paper done by 4/29 - Travis said he'll wont have it done by then. barely got the documentation on the native HSPICE vcr model on tuesday night from Ken. - We will finish our parts of the paper and hand it off to him.