Objectives and competences
The objective of this course is for students to understand the role of terminal equipment in telecommunications from the technological and application development aspect.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction: terminal equipment types, overview of different terminal equipment generations, terminal equipment manufacturers.
• Hardware scheme of terminal equipment.
• Terminal equipment communication part: transmitter, receiver.
• Central part of terminal equipment: CPU, DSP, baseband processor, memory.
• Peripheral part of terminal equipment: communication with neighbouring devices, positioning, additional memory, multi-modal adds-on.
• Input/output interfaces: tactile, visual, aural, vocal.
• Terminal equipment limitations: CPU power, memory size, power consumption, form factor.
• Operating systems on terminal equipment: Android, iOS, open source systems.
• Programming languages on terminal equipment.
• Mobile ecosystem and application development on terminal equipment: application overview, development cycle, IDE, hardware limitations.
Learning and teaching methods
• lectures,
• tutorial,
• lab work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to
• explain the technological scheme of terminal equipment from the communication and peripheral aspect,
• compare operating systems, mobile ecosystems and programming languages running on terminal equipment,
• analyse, design and evaluate development of a simple application on terminal equipment.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• Communication skills: manner of expression at the tests or written exam, oral lab work defence.
• Use of information technology: developing computer programs, use of software tools, search for information on the Internet.
• Problem solving: developing a simple application on terminal equipment.
Readings
• A. Žgank: Terminalska oprema, delovno gradivo, Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko, Maribor, 2019.
• R. Meier, I. Lake: Professional Android 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Indianapolis, 2018.
• S. K. Das: Mobile handset design, John Wiley & Sons, Singapore, 2010 .
• G. Varrall, R. Belcher: 3G handset and network design, Wiley, Indianapolis, 2003.
• A. Naha, P. Whale: Essentials of Mobile Handset Design, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
Prerequisits
Knowledge of telecommunications and computer science is recommended.
Additional information on implementation and assessment The written exam may be substituted with continuous knowledge testing and assessment.
