The world is digital, but life is analog..
January 27th 2021
In this final session, I’ve shared some of the research trends in antenna design. The topics covered for the past 13 weeks lays sufficient foundation for students to kick start their journey to explore the interesting areas in antenna researches.
I hope you enjoyed the online classes as much as I did for the past 13 weeks and all the best in your final exams.
January 15th 2021
In the final class of Electronic Systems Design, students were assigned to design a finite state machine module of a sequence detector.
Both designs, verilog module and text fixture, are required before it’s implementation onto FPGAs.
Today’s class is on the final chapter of Antenna & Propagation: Radio Propagation.
It is important for an antenna designer to understand the propagation concepts, as radio wave propagation and reception are heavily affected by them. Among topic that is included in this chapters are propagation model, mechanism and fading.
An instruction for Antenna Project Design has been uploaded in KALAM. The project involves to design a microstip antenna with circular polarization properties for application in GPS devices.
Here, the assignment is to review 3 articles, either from the given articles in KALAM or from the one downloaded from Google Scholar / IEEExplore.
The video below shows the common practices in scientific article review.
Dec 31st, 2020
Good antenna measurements don’t just happen
https://www.antenna-theory.com/measurements/antenna.php
Today’s class covers the topic of antenna measurement, which is essential in antenna design verification process. There are a number of techniques such as near field and far field. Measurement equipment for a typical antenna measurement setup are network analyzer, signal generator, positioner (turn table) and spectrum analyzer.
A good measuring setup presents minimal discrepancies between the measured and simulated results.
