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CEC Semester Twelve 2017

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Highlights
November 2 – Day 4 – WiFi
Jul 03, 2018
This class will provide descriptions and examples of BlueTooth use in IoT designs. The Renesas Synergy Platform and other implementations will be described.
November 3 – Day 5 – Cellular and More
Jul 03, 2018
This class will provide descriptions and examples of Cellular use in IoT designs. The Renesas Synergy Platform and other implementations will be described. A short description of other wireless communication system will also be provided.
November 13 – Day 1– Call to ARM(s)
Jul 03, 2018
Today, we will collect all of the tools we’ll need to ARM ourselves for the rest of the lecture series. We will gather programmers/debuggers, install software tools and test the operation of the hardware that we will be discussing this week.
November 14 – Day 2 – ARM I/O 101
Jul 03, 2018
Learning to control an ARM processor’s I/O subsystems is essential. In this lecture, we will code firmware manipulation routines for various STMicroelectronics ARM microcontrollers using the Keil MDK-Essential Edition.
November 1 – Day 3 – BlueTooth
Jul 03, 2018
This class will provide descriptions and examples of BlueTooth use in IoT designs. The Renesas Synergy Platform and other...
September 26 – Day 2 – RF and Radio Basics
Jul 03, 2018
To better prepare for the remainder of the week’s classes, we will take a day to learn (or review) the basics of RF and radio receiver design. We will look at front-end amplifiers, mixers, and demodulation methods in the traditional...
September 27 – Day 3 – Exploring SDR with the RTL-SDR, Part 1
Jul 03, 2018
In our third class, we will begin our ‘hands-on’ lab using the Adafruit Industries LLC 1497 RTL2832 with R820T Stick Kit. We will look at the origins of the RTL2832 and R820T chips and how the common radio dongle works and some of the forms that...
August 25 – Day 5 – Available Products and Future Trends
Jul 03, 2018
There are a number of available RTLS products in the industry.  We will discuss a sampling of those available.  In general these are not compatible.  We will also discuss standards that should lead to interoperability between these.  As mentioned...
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