Undergraduate Curriculum to Teach and Provide Research Skills on Hardware Design for SDR Applications in FPGA Technology

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 9; pp. 93967 - 93975
• Main Authors: Torres Gomez, Jorge, Jerez Naranjo, Yannelys, Dressler, Falko, Fernandez-Getino Garcia, M. Julia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Applications programs; Classrooms; Communication; Communication engineering education; Communication skills; Communication systems; Communication theory; Communications engineering; Communications systems; communications technology; Conferences; Curricula; Design; Digital signal processing; Field programmable gate arrays; from research to practice; Hardware; Learning; project-based learning; Real-time systems; Seminars; Signal processing; Skills; soft skills; Software radio; Students; Technological innovation; Time signals; Wireless networks

Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies play today an important role in modern wireless networks due to their flexibility to implement re-configurable hardware designs. In light of the importance to operate and develop such technologies, academic programs in the communications engineering field de...