Digital Electronics Project Design Brief 2025 | LBU

MARK SCHEME

Excellent: 70% and higher

Very Good 60% - 69%

Good 50% - 59%

Satisfactory 40% - 49%

Demonstration of

Evidence of excellent

Evidence of proficiency in

Evidence of some good

Some engagement with

final design (40%)

proficiency in simulating

digital electronics designs.

simulating digital electronics

designs.

engagement with circuit

simulation.

circuit simulation.

Some evidence of

Evidence of excellent

Evidence of proficiency in

Evidence of some good

implementation of design

implementation of design

implementation of design

implementation of design

Imaginative and well justified

Clear rationale and

Mostly reasonable

Minimal rationale or

Approaches to problem-solving and overall design strategies (20%)

approach to overall design strategy.

Excellent evidence of a professional, top-down,

structured design method.

justification for design strategy.

Very good evidence of a professional, top-down,

structured design method.

justification for design strategy.

Good evidence of a top- down, structured design

method.

justification for design strategy.

Some evidence of a structured design method.

Limited appreciation of

Excellent appreciation of

Very good appreciation of

Good appreciation of context

context and constraints.

context and constraints.

context and constraints.

and constraints.

Evidence of excellent

Evidence of proficiency

Evidence of engagement

Engagement with a limited

Application of specific design techniques for combinational and sequential logic circuits (20%)

proficiency across a wide range of design techniques. Excellent, accurate and appropriate application of techniques.

Excellent, clear, in-depth

analysis of combinational

across a good range of design techniques.

Accurate and appropriate application of techniques. Clear, in-depth analysis of combinational and sequential

circuit designs.

with a fair range of design techniques.

Mostly accurate and appropriate application of techniques.

Mostly clear and appropriate

analysis of the combinational

range of design techniques.

Some appropriate and correct application of techniques.

Superficial analysis of

combinational and

and a sequential circuit

and a sequential circuit

sequential circuit designs.

designs.

designs.

Excellent evidence of

Very good evidence of

Good evidence of some

Some evidence of testing

Test and evaluation of your circuit design (10%)

appropriate and comprehensive testing of circuit designs.

Excellent analysis and

appropriate and thorough testing of circuit designs. Very good analysis and

Evaluation of simulation

appropriate testing of circuit designs.

Good analysis and

Evaluation of simulation

circuit designs. Superficial analysis and evaluation of the simulation

results.

evaluation of simulation

results.

results.

results.

Technical report writing and presentation (10%)

Excellent, well-written, well-structured and coherent report.

Plenty of superb quality, highly relevant, original images and diagrams. Evidence of excellent reference to underpinning literature with an accurate, comprehensive list of sources using Harvard style.

Really good writing style, structure and coherence. Sufficient very good quality, relevant, original images and diagrams.

Evidence of good engagement with the underpinning literature and a list of appropriate sources using Harvard style.

Reasonably well-written, mostly good structure and coherence.

Some good quality, appropriate, original images and diagrams.

Evidence of some engagement with the underpinning literature and a list of sources using Harvard

style.

Your report is mostly readable but lacks a coherent structure.

Some appropriate, original images and diagrams.

Limited evidence of engagement with the underpinning literature or an incomplete list of sources.