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Why TIMS?

How can students experiment with and experience the multitude of telecommunications principles and modulation/coding schemes without the need for an entire test bench of instruments and time-consuming preparation?

This major challenge is answered by the TIMS approach to building experiments at a block diagram level.

What is TIMS?

TIMS (Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System), is a flexible and versatile communications trainer that incorporates all of the instruments needed to quickly and easily carry out every communications laboratory experiment required in a range of courses, from technical college to university level.

How does it do this?

The TIMS-301 BASIC SYSTEM comprises the core hardware components and documentation for a TIMS laboratory training system.

The first of the two hardware components is the TIMS-301 SYSTEM UNIT with its FIXED modules (lower rack) and 12-slot upper rack for plug-in modules.

The second hardware component is the PLUG-IN MODULES which comprises of a large range of single function building blocks. The professor choses the modules needed to suit each specific experiment setup and these are then reused in other experiment setups.

The BASIC MODULE SET which includes 13 BASIC plug-in modules. Three sets of manuals are included: the TIMS-301 USER MANUAL, the TIMS LABSHEET EXPERIMENTS set and the five volume TIMS STUDENT TEXT.

In 1971, Tim Hooper, then a senior lecturer at The University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), envisaged a communications training system which would allow students to set-up communications laboratory experiments without time consuming preparations and the need for a test bench of instruments.

The result of his inspiration and vision was TIMS : Telecommunication Instructional Modelling System, a flexible and versatile communications trainer that incorporated all of the instruments needed to quickly and easily carry out every communications laboratory experiment required in a university level course.

In 1985 Emona, together with Tim Hooper and in consultation with local universities, modernised the TIMS system.

Today, Tim Hooper's original TIMS concept has proven its success by serving tens of thousands of students in over 15 countries. It is now the most modern and advanced telecommunications training system available in the world.

Emona's ongoing development program focuses on specialised areas of communications. This ensures that students using TIMS will have practical experience in the latest areas of telecommunications theory.

In manufacturing standards, Emona is committed to a quality policy that ensures the reliability of TIMS in a demanding teaching environment. Stringent quality control procedures are enforced during assembly, calibration and burn-in testing. Final testing guarantees TIMS performance according to specifications.