Assessment

Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.

Three pieces of work, each building on the measurement habits the one before it required: reading a captured trace, then reporting on a channel in full, then designing against all of them at once.

Trace Analysis Lab

Reading an unannotated power trace against the program that produced it, without a lecture walking you through it first

Due 19 March 2027 · Weight: 30%

Channel Report

A full treatment of one of the seven channels the course argues, written to the same standard the lectures introducing them were written to

Due 23 April 2027 · Weight: 30%

Capstone Design Review

The semester's method, applied once in full — a device, an adversary, and a ranked, quantified list of which channels apply

Due 28 May 2027 · Weight: 40%