Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Embedded Systems Design; Embedded Systems Programming in C; C Language Pointers and Bitwise Operators; embedded processor selection; hardware/firmware partitioning; glue logic; circuit design; circuit layout; circuit debugging; development tools; firmware architecture; firmware design; firmware debugging; Real-time operating systems; Low-power computing; input/output synchronization; I/O Interfacing via Data/Address busses; Connecting external chips to microcontrollers; Serial Port communications; System Interrupts; Analog/Digital Conversion Techniques; FPGA applications in system design.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Fading channels and channel impairments. Effects of fading on the system performance and capacity. Introduction to MIMO communication systems: diversity and multiplexing techniques, Code division multiplexing, spread spectrum communications.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Physics of light. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Laser diodes; coherent light, light emission, amplification of light, semiconductor lasers, multimode laser diodes, Fabry-Perot laser diode, distributed laser gain, resonant frequencies, spectral linewidth, number of modes, single-mode laser diodes, distributed-feedback (DBR) laser diode, distributed-Bragg-reflector (DBR) laser diode, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELS). Multimode optical fibers; step-index fiber, modes and distortion in optical fibers. Modal distortion in optical fibers; modes in step-index fibers, graded-index fiber, modal-distortion rise-time. Dispersion in optical fibers; material dispersion, waveguide dispersion, total pulse spreading. Single-mode fibers.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Satellite Orbits, Space Stations and Ground Terminals, Frequency Allocation, Link Calculation and Signal Propagation, Digital Modulation, Error Correction Codes, Multiple Access, Receiver Synchronization, Baseband Processing and the basics of Satellite Networking. Modern communication systems using satellite.

Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School : Electronics and Communications Engineering

Course Description :

Evolution of communication systems, Cellular system structure, In depth study of the different practical mobile communication systems including the PHY layer (modulation techniques, transmitter/receiver structure), MAC (Automatic repeat Request and Hybrid Automatic repeat request), Networking and mobility management procedures, Modern and innovative ideas in mobile communication and next generation communication systems.