A laboratory setup and teaching methodology for wireless and mobile embedded systems

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 378-384

  Chenard, Jean Samuel ^a   Zilic, Zeljko ^a   Prokic, Milos ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital circuits; Energy conservation; Engineering education; Microcontrollers; Networks; Radio communication; Software engineering; Software tools

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CURRICULA; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL RADIO; ELECTRON TUBES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENGINEERING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TEACHING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER ENGINEERS; DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGNS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; HARDWARE PLATFORMS; MOBILE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; NETWORKS; SET-UPS; SOFTWARE TOOLS; TEACHING METHODOLOGIES; TEAM PROJECTS; WIRELESS EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKINGS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 56049108849     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2008.919690     Document Type: Article

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