Technical Session Information and Power Point Presentation Guidelines

1. Technical Session Information and Power Point Presentation Guidelines IEEE-IAS 2007 Annual Meeting

2. This file contains: • General session information (2 pages) • Background and text color guidelines (2 pages) • Font Guidelines (1 page) • Guidelines for graphs and figures (1 page) • A Sample presentation (5 pages) • A sample “bad” figure (2 pages)

3. General Session Information • All presentations are scheduled for 30 minutes including questions • Specific details can be arranged with your session chair before the conference or at the author’s breakfast on the morning of your presentation • Computer projection equipment and a computer will be provided in every session room • Always a good idea to bring your own laptop (as backup) whenever possible • Only Microsoft Power Point presentation software should be used—other formats are not likely to be supported

4. General Session Information • It is your responsibility to • Coordinate the transfer of your presentation with your session chair for installation on the computer in the session room • A common approach is to bring the presentation to the conference on a CD or memory stick—consider bringing a backup copy as well • Verify that your presentation does not use fonts or other features that are not installed on the computer in the session room

5. This combination will be impossible to see - no contrast This combination has good contrast but this dark back-ground will blacken the room too much and if your font is too thin, it won’t be visible Poor Color Choices • This combination can’t be read by people who are color blind

6. Fonts • Use ARIAL “Bold” • Some fonts project poorly because line width is too thin • Times • Bookman • Americana • Use as large a font as possible • Titles: 48-54 • Main text titles: 32 • Smallest text lines: 24 • Anything below 24 is too small

7. Graphs and Figures • Don’t make graphs complicated • The audience can’t read a graph with too much information • The audience can’t read a graph with lots of thin lines • The audience can’t read a graph with dotted, dashed, or other specialty lines unless they are very bold and thick.

8. Sample Presentation • Title Slide • May contain logo • Text Slides • Do not contain commercial or corporate logos • Schematic Slide

9. A 2.5V, 333MHz Embedded Memory with Differential I/O Joel Stevenson, John Johnson, Skip Douglas and Jack Taylor High Performance Design Center Dallas, Texas Your Logo Here

10. Outline of Presentation • Motivation for Work • Overview and Design Requirements • Differential I/O Circuits • Special Purpose Circuits • READ/WRITE Mechanism • Measured Results • Conclusion

11. Differential I/O Circuits tp0 VIN VOUT VIN f tn0 • Text and drawing are visible to everyone

12. Conclusion • Novel differential I/O technique reduces output driver latency 25% • New charge-sharing sense-amplifier improves access times • READ/WRITE circuit techniques allow further speed improvements • Measured access times at 85oC were demonstrated above 100MHz • Embedded custom array design achieves 10ns cycle at less than 5W in 44.5mm2 area

13. “Bad” Figure Example on next page • Too busy • Too many lines • Fonts too small

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