Open Source

The third semester B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering programme of Kerala Technological University (KTU) has a lab course on electronic design and automation. The course aims to introduce the students to various electronic design and simulation tools like SPICE, MATLAB and HDL. I had proposed the migration of the MATLAB section of this lab course to SCILAB, a popular open source alternative to MATLAB. The migration is now complete with support from FOSSEE . The source code of the experiments are now available here. A detailed lab manual will be made available soon. ...

Kerala Technological University (KTU) published a draft syllabus for the third and fourth semesters of Electronics and Communication Engineering for the coming academic year. It raised widespread concerns regarding: The depth and vastness of contents The obsoleteness of contents Sequence of introducing concepts and the pedagogy involved FOSS friendliness To discuss the matter and collect feedback from a wider academic community, KTU called for a syllabi discussion meeting at its office on 13th May, 2016. More than a hundred faculties from various engineering colleges in Kerala came over and expressed their genuine concerns, comments and suggestions. I got opportunity to attend the same. ...