It is with deep gratitude and pleasure to thank the JSS Academy of Technical Education for a successful 5 days faculty development program on “GNU Radio and Software Defined Radio” from 27th June to 1st July 2016.
The program was inaugurated by the Chief Guest of Honor Dr. M H Kori, Former Chairman and Governing council member of IETE, with the Chief Guest Mr. Prabhu Raju Director of Tenet Technetronics, Bangalore.
The event started by Mr. Prabhu Raja who delivered the addressing and later on continued by Dr. M H Kori who delivered the technical speech on 4G and 5G Technology.
The participants for the workshop came from various parts of Bangalore and Mysore, All were faculties from ECE domain, few were experts in the field of wireless communication and few were interested to start their research in the field of Wireless communication.
After the very informative session by Dr. M H Kori, the session continued with brief introduction to the “GNU Radio and SDR” which was presented by our Technical expert Mr. Umashankar Shetty, Tenet Technetronics. This session went on with introduction to SDR platform, its features, available hardware and software.
Second day of the FDP started with the technical talk from an external expert Dr. Subhash Kulkarni, PES-South Campus, Bengaluru, who delivered the keynotes on features of “Math models in Signal Processing”. This indeed was an interactive session.
Later the session was continued with the questionnaires over the previous day topic from the fellow participants and then the topic took forth on “GNU Radio and SDR” which covered the ideas on GNU Radio and its programming environment. The various ways of approach and usability of the software platform, comparison between the other signal processing software, advantages and disadvantages.
Third day was completely given to our technical experts to carry on with the “GNU Radio and SDR” with Hands-on practice over GNU Radio programming environment, which included the very first waveform generator and its forms, the various block available for programming, the Boolean operations for signal creation, and later continued with filtering and sampling over audio signals and so on.
Fourth day morning session was carried out by Dr. Sudha, HOD ECE, KSIT, Bangalore who shared her technical knowledge on “Coding Techniques used in Wireless Communication”. Then the session moved on with the practical implementation of USRP Hardware in signal processing. The session was jam packed with transmission and reception of radio signals in real time, sampling, modulating and demodulating the same. The participants were excited to see working of signal processing in actuals. This gave heads up to few of the participants to take up their PhD research over signal processing using USRP hardware. This made us to focus more on real time signal generation and processing.
Fifth day morning session technical talk was taken by Mr. Chandra Mohan Umapathy, an Independent Consultant working in the field of high speed modulo operations, who shared his experience on “Mobile Tower Sites”.
Finally it was our turn to conclude the 5 days FDP with some cool implementation of real-time applications over USRP, Which carried out building our own FM station for FM signal transmission (Transmitting audio signal over air), Mode S transponder (An ADS-B Transponder for tracking live data from the Aircraft) and srsLTE (A 4G LTE Stack for creating a channel for high rate data packet transfer, also Video transmission and reception).
Last but not least, the participants were given with a small test in order to make sure the session was informative and they have learnt something out of the training.
Finally the participants enjoyed their 5 days stay with JSSATE and were leaving with lots of memory and definitely with the knowledge on “GNU Radio and SDR”. Also we were given with a 100% positive feedback, Which indeed is now pushing us to conduct more and more similar kinds of training’s and FDPs, provided the opportunity.
As a team we are quite interested in organizing many such events in the future. If your college/university is interested in procuring or knowing more about the Software Defined Radio platforms, please do send us an email at info@tenettech.com.
