13E033PMT - Principles of Modern Telecommunications
| Course specification | ||||
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| Course title | Principles of Modern Telecommunications | |||
| Acronym | 13E033PMT | |||
| Study programme | Electrical Engineering and Computing | |||
| Module | Computer Engineering and Informatics | |||
| Type of study | bachelor academic studies | |||
| Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 6.0 | Status | elective | |
| Condition | None | |||
| The goal | Introduce the students to modern communication systems. | |||
| The outcome | The students will be able to read technical specifications and solve simple practical problems. They will be able to design a typical wired network. They will understand the most important L2 technologies; they will program network applications in free software tools; they will program a microcontroller, and produce a report in LaTeX2e. | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Physical layer specification. Transmission media. Telecommunication installations. Data link layer. L2 technologies. Free software in telecommunications: GNU Octave, Python, LaTeX2e. Networking applications programming. Communications hardware programming. Telecommunication systems simulation and emulation. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Network installation project. Work in GNU Octave, Python, and LaTeX2e. MSP430 microcontroller programming. Active network equipment configuration. | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Methods of teaching | Lectures, practices, laboratory, project assignments | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 0 | Test paper | 0 | |
| Practical lessons | 0 | Oral examination | 40 | |
| Projects | 60 | |||
| Colloquia | 0 | |||
| Seminars | 0 | |||