Summary
International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications
2016
Session Number:M1-4
Session:
Number:M1-4-1
Development of Software defined Communication Systems for Improving Technical Education in Thailand
Poompat Saengudomlert, Natthaphob Nimpitiwan, Pakorn Ubolkosold ,
pp.57-60
Publication Date:2016/7/10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Due to high prices of imported laboratory equipment for teaching and learning digital communications, several educational institutes in Thailand (as well as some neighboring countries) are facing problems of equipment shortage. A lot of students end up learning from textbooks without actual experiments, causing them to lack confidence in their knowledge. Fortunately, reprogrammable digital electronics, in particular field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), are becoming cheaper with higher computational powers. Universities can now use them to develop communication systems for laboratory equipment. This article describes such activities at Bangkok University-Center of Research in Optoelectronics, Communications, and Control Systems (BU-CROCCS), Thailand.