Lectures

1. Introduction
2. Boolean Algebra
3. Logic Minimization - Karnaugh-Veitch-Diagrams (KV-diagrams)
4. Data Path Components (multiplexer, demultiplexer, priority encoders, code converters, adders, multipliers)
5. Latches and Flipflops
6. Shift Registers
7. Finite State Machines
8. Counters
9. Number Systems (Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal Systems) and number representations
10. Introduction to VHDL
11. Codes
12. Integrated Circuit Technologies 

Further Details: 

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/1636e4d2-f486-43df-8877-954de8eaa4f4?versionId=0

https://lms.fh-kiel.de/course/view.php?id=7693

1. Information Theory
2. Analogue Modulation Schemes (Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation)
3. Baseband Transmission
4. Digital Modulation Schemes (Pulse Code Modulation, Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK), Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), Phase Shift Keying (PSK), Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM))
5. Introduction to Coding Schemes (Source Coding Schemes and Channel Coding Schemes)
6. Transmission Media and channels (twisted pair, optical fire, wireless transmission)

Further module information:

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/ff2d4fda-899b-47ea-8f15-312e7bfbb50d?versionId=0

https://lms.fh-kiel.de/course/view.php?id=6972

• Simulation Environments (a free student version of the AWR simulation environment, which is very suitable for simulating microwave systems can be found at and downloaded from):

https://www.awr.com/awr-software/products/awr-design-environment

1. Synthesis of simple combinatorial logic using VHDL
2. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and Xilinx' Integrated Software Environment (ISE)
3. Design of digital functions and function elements in VHDL using processes
4. Modelling of tri-state-elements and don't care states using VHDL
5. Design of finite state machines and synchronous counters in VHDL
6. Structured VHDL designs using main and sub modules

Further information: 

• Further module information:

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/5b82fa60-cea8-49e7-a22a-45eb9770dc83?versionId=0

• FPGA technology:

https://www.xilinx.com/

https://www.latticesemi.com/

https://www.latticesemi.com/Products.aspx#_D5A173024E414501B36997F26E842A31

• FPGA and System-on-Chip (SoC)-boards:

https://digilent.com/shop/boards-and-components/system-boards/fpga-boards/

https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/de/Produkte/Xilinx/

https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/de/Produkte/Programmierbare-Logik/

1. Fundamentals on Satellite based Positioning and Navigation
2. Coordinate Systems
3. Fundamentals on satellite movement (Kepler's laws)
4. Global Positioning System (GPS) - Architecture and Technology
5. Galileo - The European Satellite Navigation System
6. GPS Extensions and Applications
7. GPS Hardware and Interfaces

• Further module information:

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/acfe268f-0c50-45ba-aa62-ec3bd7ae18d1?versionId=0

• most up-to-date news on Galileo, the European Satellite Navigation System:

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Galileo

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Galileo/What_is_Galileo

1. Introduction to bioinformatics
2. Statistical Analysis of DNA-Sequences
3. Practical Bioinformatics
   1. Fundamentals on sequence alignment
   2. Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm and Smith-Waterman-Algorithm 
4. Information Theory and statistical properties of genes
5. Nanopore Sequencing

1. Introduction: historic ciphers and general principles of modern symmetric crypto systems
2. Number Theory, Galois Fields, Extensions
3. Symmetric Crypto Systems (Data Encryption Standard (DES), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES))
4. Introduction to public key crypto systems
5. The RSA System
6. Crypto Systems based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem (DLP)
7. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
8. Cryptographic Protocols (RSA Digital Signature, Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA))
9. Hash Functions

• Further module information:

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/d313e073-d950-4886-8177-815d56f05585?versionId=0

https://lms.fh-kiel.de/course/view.php?id=5473

• Interesting Links for further study:

Cryptool-homepage (project of the University of Siegen, Germany, initiated by Prof. Dr. Berhard Esslinger) https://www.cryptool.org

Internet of the book by Prof. Dr. Christof Paar and Jan Pelzl: "Understanding Cryptography": http://www.crypto-textbook.com/

1. Gate-level combinational circuits
2. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) and Xilinx Development Environment Vivado
3. Register Transfer Level (RT-level) combinational circuits
4. Regular Sequential circuits
5. Finite State Machines (FSM)
6. Finite State Machines with data path (FSMD)

• Further module information:

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/932286fe-cfb5-4f57-b7a2-01575d6b0fd2?versionId=0

• FPGA and Systems-on-Chip:

https://www.xilinx.com/

https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/de/Produkte/Xilinx/

• ZED-Board information:

https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/us/products/avnet-boards/

https://digilent.com/reference/learn/programmable-logic/tutorials/zedboard-getting-started-with-zynq/start

1. Introduction to 5G - Motivation, Standardization, Spectrum
2. 5G New Radio (NR) - System Overview
3. Radio Interface Architecture
4. Overall Transmission Scheme
5. Downlink Transmission
6. Uplink Transmission
7. LTE / NR -Interworking and Coexistence
8. RF Characteristics

• Further module information:

https://moduldatenbank.fh-kiel.de/de-DE/Module/Details/65eab6ff-7ce5-4c1f-aa8b-1926e3c4453a?versionId=0

• Interesting Links for further study:

https://www.3gpp.org/release-15

https://portal.3gpp.org/Specifications.aspx?q=1&series=45&releases=all&draft=False&underCC=False&withACC=False&withBCC=False&numberNYA=False