Wednesday 2 May 2012

Progress Report

The progress report has been done according to the task given.

After the final examination the full project work will be started.

The progress report has been submitted to the supervisor.

Last meeting

After the presentation on week 12, our supervisor meets us on the week 14 April 24th, 2012. He give us the feedback from the presentation on week 12. All the feedback are positive. He asked us to do the progress report which must be submitted before week 15. He also asks us to start the project now so that can diagnose early when there are problems.

the task that must be done in progress report:
Chapter I - Introduction.
Chapter II - Literature Review.
Chapter III - Methodology.

This progress report is for the technical report which must be submitted on final of the semester 2.

Last presentation with the supervisor

On the April 5th, 2012 we held our last presentation with full of confident and preparations. After the presentation, Sir Azlan gives us support and wish us luck for the presentation on week 12 which is on April 12th, 2012.

2nd Pre-presentation.

On the March 27th, 2012 which is week 10, Sir Mohd Azlan bin Abu just see the presentation slide. After reviewing our slide, Sir Azlan gives us some tips on how to do a good presentation. In the meantime, he also teaches us about the greetings and expressions on the presentations.

He set the date April 3rd will be the last and final presentation before we present it to the assessors.

1st Pre-presentation

On week 9, March 20th, 2012 held the pre-presentation with the supervisor Sir Mohd Azlan bin Abu at the Library Discussion room. Overall was good but there were some changes in the slide. The changes are :
1) Put some pictures about the component.
2) Objectives must be clear.
3) conclusion must refer to the objectives.

The next meeting will be held on March 27th, 2012.

Week 8 Progress

After the mid-term semester break, the presentation slide been done. The slide been done according to the steps given by the University. The followings are the task that must have in the slide :
-Introduction
-Objectives
-Literature Review
-Methodology
-Block Diagram
-Gantt Chart
-Expected Result
-Conclusion
-References

Mid-term Semester break task

On the semester break, a lot of research been done on the particular project. The main component that been researched is the Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). The VCO that been choose is CVCO55BE for GSM 1800 and CVCO55CL GSM 900. This component be purchase through online. 

The second component that been research is the power amplifier which is from Hitachi PF08103B.

 The third component is the antenna. The specification for the antenna is :
• Frequency 1700-1900 MHz
• Input impedance 50Ω
• VSWR <2

Phase test week.

During the phase test week, there are no work been done because the study process for the test been done.