Const. Criticism on an IEEE Format report. (on ASIC Process with Cadence Layout XL )

View attachment LowPass Butterworth filter_msg1g10.pdf

I recently worked on Cadence Layout XL where my task was to design a butterworth filter to match a specification using ASIC Process.I started with CMOS level schematic - to testing the schematic - extracting it to form an extracted Op-Amp - using the Op-Amp to make an 8th order butterworth filter. (and to extract the filter in the end and check it) though I have submitted the report , but there are few things that bothered me that I couldnt put :
1. I couldn't show the step by step procedure in using Cadence AMS HIT-Kit. but then again. the whole thing wasn't possible to include it in a 2500 words report anyway.I only showed few thing those were imp.
2. I didn't show any calculations i had done form my Filter design, then again the purpose of the report was to be aware of the Process involved in an ASIC methodology.
3. Though i took me almost 2 weeks to make the IC layout (extracted) from scratch, i had to finish the report in 1 day ,therefore, a lot of mistakes - sentence formation- "formal"ness of a report etc

This being my 1st IEEE format report, I would like to know what you guys think could be done better. I "will" have to write a lot more reports on different topics (and i am writing one more now - due in a weeks time), I could use some suggestions , specially on the content (yes i have seen the IEEE Papers online and thats how i started my paper as well)

PS: don't copy though.

You could do a search on a topic similar to yours. Print 10 of them and ask some collegues which paper they found most helpfull. Use that one for reference of your next report.In my opninion the report should include all things so that any engineer reading it could reach your results in the least amount of time. Therefore you have maximised information transfer, which is the ultimate goal of a report

thanks DarkCrusher,
on one hand, i couldn't write the steps since this report wasn't meant how to operate the cadence design kt, but rather how to use the tools and features to develop a butter worth filter. but on the other, like you (and few other people with whom i have shared this)have mentioned that it lacks data for reproduction of results.for eg, i dint include any tables for loads of experiments which i did but werent put in - to name one. some have told its too much theory.
do have any reports of own i could look at?

I created another report on elementary Op-Amps for a course. This time i have tried to include a lot more experimental data to support any argument.