Month: October 2020

BEE 3233 – Electronic Systems Design

Another subject that I’ll be facilitating this semester is Electronic System Design.

 

Learning outcomes of this course are as follows:-

  1. The first outcome is targeted into establishing a solid understanding in design concepts for digital electronics. This include being able to
    • Differentiate different digital implementation technologies available – covering from programmable logic arrays, PLD, PAL and FPGAs,
    • The concepts of Arithmetic Logic Units – which covers from the basic adders, carry look ahead adders and multipliers, as well as
    • Finite state machines and its design techniques
  2. The second outcome aims in developing students ability to design, simulate and implement digital design onto an FPGA. Here, not only is the simulation ability is reflected via
    • FPGA programming using Verilog language,
    • Implementation of the systems onto an FPGA, as well as
    • Analyze and evaluate the performance of the design experimentally
  3. The final outcome touches on a skills that is essential for all engineering graduates – communication both verbal and written skills.Specifically for this course, we’ll look into these two domain:-
    • Review journal articles
    • Convey engineering design ideas and experimental results via scientific reporting

The knowledge content of this course can be charted out in these 3 main domains:-

  1. Implementation Technologies
    • Fixed logic solutions,
    • template based
      • The conventional PAL, PLA and CPLD
    • Look up table
      • FPGA technologies
  2. An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit used to perform arithmetic and logic operations. It represents the fundamental building block of the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer. Modern CPUs contain very powerful and complex ALUs. In this course, ALU include:-
    • Adders
    • Multipliers, and
    • ALU
  3. And finally, the Finite State Machines. A finite–state machine (FSM), is basically a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract machine that can be in exactly one of a finite number of states at any given time. Throughout the course, we will look into 3 main concepts in FSM which are:
    • mealy
    • moore
    • mealy moore machine

SESI #06: REPUBLIKA MERAH ONLINE – Electronic System Design: The Robot, The Codes and The Apps

Had the privilege to be one of the panelist for today’s Karnival Buku Ilmiah 2020 Session #6.

SESI #06: REPUBLIKA MERAH ONLINE

BICARA 3 BUAH BUKU TERBITAN PENERBIT UMP>> BELALAI GAJAH (CLINACANTHUS NUTANS)>> ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS: THE ROBOT & THE CODES>> LECTRONIC SYSTEMS: THE ROBOT & THE APPS..Saksikan secara LIVE sesi REPUBLIKA MERAH ONLINE bersempena KARNIVAL BUKU ILMIAH DALAM TALIAN (KABI 2.0)Tarikh: 23 Oktober 2020 (Jumaat)Masa 3:00 petang..EKSKLUSIF HANYA DI FACEBOOK 'MAJLIS PENERBITAN ILMIAH MALAYSIA: MAPIM..Boleh streaming kami di..FB LIVE:www.facebook.com/1mapimYOUTUBE:https://youtube.com/channel/UC2P0si4Fh3GeGMyksL4fmsw..#KarnivalBukuIlmiah#MAPIMXShopee#RepublikaMerahOnline

Posted by Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia : MAPIM on Jumaat, 23 Oktober 2020

20/21 1 Antenna Theory & Propagation

BEE 4433  Antenna Theory and Radio Propagation is among the courses that I’ll be teaching in this semester. Looking forward to meeting the new batch online :).

There are 3 main outcomes targeted from this course as shown here:

  1. Theories
  2. Simulations, and
  3. Communication

The first outcome is targeted into establishing a solid understanding on the theories and concept behind an antenna design. This include being able to characterize and explain

  • The operating mechanism of an antenna mathematically,
  • The physics of radiations generated by an antenna structure, and
  • The advantages and limitation of an antenna design

The second outcome aims in developing students ability to design and simulate antenna to meet design requirements.

Here, not only is the simulation ability is reflected via the competencies of using a CAD tools such as the 3D full wave solver, but also to fabricate and measure the performance of a prototype antenna in a lab scale.

This means a student should be able to:-

  • Model the radiating structure
  • Analyze and conclude simulation results – making sense of the simulated results, and finally,
  • to evaluate antenna experimentally – which include fabrication process and measurement techniques.

The final outcome touches on a skills that is essential for all engineering graduates – communication both verbal and written skills.

Specifically for this course, we’ll look into these two domain:-

  • Review journal articles
  • Convey engineering design ideas and experimental results via scientific reporting

DNAL 2020 Finale #myDigitalMaker Fair

Those 9 weeks come to today’s finale.

We are glad and proud to be part of this year’s Digital Ninja Accelerator Program, as technical content provider:- Arduino Microcontroller Robotics, Rapid Prototyping 3D Design and Raspberry Pi Internet of Things.

To all finalist, all the best.

Battle of the Digital Ninja 2020 (Finale)

From 24 competing teams to 6 team finalist who will be battling ‘Shark Tank’ to garner cash pledges from esteemed panel of judges :Dr Qhamariah binti Samu Deputy Director, Resource and Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education of MalaysiaDato’Ng Wan PengCOO, Malaysia Economic Development Corporation Dato’ Seri Ivan TehGroup CEO, Fusionex InternationalJohary MustaphaCEO, Forest InteractiveNizam RashidGeneral Manager, UMP Technology Sdn Bhd Nor Aini Abd JalilHead Product Management, Petronas Dagangan These teams are from the Digital Ninja Accelerator LabX 2020 program where111 students ages 11 years old till 16 years old from 12 Primary schools and 97 Secondary Schools participate to be trainedand uoskilled in tech, digital making skills and critical soft skills.

Posted by My Digital Maker Fair on Jumaat, 9 Oktober 2020

#myDigitalMakerFair Day 2 3 4 5 6 Highlights :)

Among interesting topics that caught my attention 🙂 in this year’s Digital Maker Fair program:-

  • Non-Banking Roles in Banks: Find your way.

Panelists discuss on the impact and opportunity with data science in today’s digital banking business. Being curious, agile is important as it opens the door for expansion.

  • Artificial Intelligence goes to School

Among topics in AI that could be incorporated in school curriculum are problem solving, reasoning, planning, natural language understanding, computer vision, automatic programming and machine learning. Data analysis is the essence and being analytical does help to take AI ecosystem to the the young students.

AI does sounds intimidating, well as one might imagine that there must be together with robot or some sophisticated elements. However, AI starts with a simple statistics which can grow into regression model to other complicated models.

Understanding, analyzing and manipulating data are among AI features and can be easily incorporated in school curriculum.

  • Future Farm

Panelist discuss on modern farming systems targeting household market. Today, many of us are into growing our own food in our home. Precision  are the essence in indoor farming systems.

  • Be Your Own Boss

Laura waked through her personal experience in making the path of her company in Gig economy. Being visible in Linkedin was her stepping stone to her successful career today. Among tips shared were to use the right #tags and make trending postings.

  • E-sports in School

 

 

  • Reimagining Schools

An interesting quote from the moderator was being an educator is like walking through a time machine, where by one learn in a past education system, however teach in current education setup, and are required to prepare the generation for the future education setup :).

well, isn’t that interesting!!!

 

  • The 30s Pitch Challenge

We live in a fast moving era today. 30-seconds is only what it takes to be within ones attention span – the meaningful moment 🙂 .

Here, Laura and Tyler shared the tips and tricks to grab that moments, which include answering the following q’s:-

    1. who are you?
    2. what do you do and why?
    3. what makes you different from the others?
    4.  + Energy

Project Ninja Slot 6 @ SK Sultan Ahmad

42 school children and teachers participated in this program, held in SK Sultan Ahmad Pekan.

The program embeds UMP STEM Bot module which is broadly divided into 3 segments as below:- 

  1. Introduction to signal behavior: digital/analog input, digital/analog output  
    • here, students start to do simple programming instructions to light the LEDs on the STEM Bot, variations of blinking sequence,
    • later move on into reading analog signals from IR sensors 
    • and writing signals on OLED 
  2. Robot Movement: PWM, motor direction
    • moving into the second segment, students start to to program UMP STEM Bot as a robot – time based (movement based on time), following certain routes such as forward, reverse, square, and round
  3. Line following robotics: line detection, junction choices  
    • in the final segment, students program UMP STEM Bot to follow certain routes (based on a given line track) as well as taking junctions.