Compulsory Subjects: Syllabus of Electronics of Amie Exams

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SYLLABUS OF ELECTRONICS OF AMIE EXAMS
ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Compulsory Subjects
IC 402 Engineering Management
EC 403 Communication Engineering
EC 404 Circuit Theory and Control
EC 405 Micro-processors and Micro-controllers
EC 406 Electronic Circuits
EC 407 Design of Electronic Devices and Circuits
Optional Subjects
(Any three from any one Group)
Group I Telecommunication Engineering

EC 411 Broadcast and Television Engineering
EC 412 Radar and Antenna Engineering
EC 413 Microwave Engineering
EC 414 Optical and Satellite Communication
EC 415 Computer Networks and Communication
Group II Integrated Circuits & Systems Engineering
EC 421 Digital Hardware Design
EC 422 Pulse and Digital Circuits
EC 423 IC Design Techniques
EC 424 Solid State Physics and Semiconductor Devices
EC 425 Software Engineering
Group III Control and Instrumentation
EC 431 Sensors and Transducers
EC 432 Industrial Instrumentation and Computer Control
EC 433 Biomedical Electronics
EC 434 Signal Processing
EC 435 Control Systems
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Engineering Management
Group A
Management and Organisations
Management process: Definition, planning organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating,
types of management.
Organisation Definition, planning, design and development, types of organizations.
Management planning and control: Classical, new classical and modern principles. General
Management, scientific management, engineering, management, systems management.
Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, goals, policies and procedures.
Control: Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or evaluation, monitoring and
controlling, types of control.
Human resource planning and management, selection, recruitment, training, retraining, skill
development, competence development, promotion and career development, participative
management, trade unions, and collective bargaining,
Management of Physical Resources
Plant: site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. Layout-types and relative merits
and demerits, Maintenance-Objectives, different types of associated decisions, strategies for
effective maintenance, computer applications.
Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control including inventory models with or
without storage costs, price break ( excluding dynamic and probabilistic considerations).
Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Planning (MRP).
Group B
Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of financial statements, ie., balance-
sheet, profit and loss, and income statement. Fixed and current asset items. Fixed and current
liability items. Linkage of two successive balance-sheets through income or profit and loss
statement. Funds flow statement. Financial ratios and their implications.
Managerial economics: Concepts, theory of production, marginal productivity and cost.
Introduction to theory of firm.
Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, quality control and quality
management, Total quality management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality control
techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling.
Marketing management consumer behavior, market research, product design and
development pricing and promotion.
Project management: Introduction. Concept of a project, project management concepts,
project simulation, cost or project and means of financing, economic evaluation criteria of the
project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, project control
(PERT, CPM techniques including crashing). Project evaluation.
Information technology and management. Role of information, management information
system and decision support system, Information technology-introduction to e-business, e-
commerce and integration tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Communication Engineering
Group A
Field theory: Fields, vector calculus, gradient, Divergence, curl, Gauss's laws. Stoke'
theorem, Helmholtz Theorem. Electric field intensity and potential, conducting Boundaries,
coaxial cylinders, Poisson's equations and Laplace equation. Ampere's circuital law,
differential equation for vector potential. Magnetic polarization and field intensity, boundary
conditions for Band H. Faraday's law. Time varying fields, displacement current. Maxwell's
equations in differential and integral forms.
Communication preliminaries. Signal representation in frequency and time domain. Fourier
transforms, power Spectrum, energy density spectrum. ,Direct delta function. Orthogonal
representatives of signals (Gram Schmidt Procedure), autocorrelation, sampling theressare
(Nyquist criterion). Random signal theory. Discrete probability theory, continuous random
variables, probability density functions, ergodic processes, correlation function, spectral
density, white noise.
Noise: Atmospheric, thermal, shot and partition noise, noise figure and experimental
determination of noise figure, minimum noise figures in networks. Analog communication.
Modulation theory and circuits. Amplitude modulation, AM-DSB, AM-DSB/SC, AM-SSB
and their comparison. Modulating and detector circuits for AM, FM and phase modulation~
Automatic frequency control. Pulse modulation. PAM, PDM, PPM, PCM, delta modulation
and circuits. Principle multiplexing FDM and TDM.
Group B
Transmission through network: Networks with random input, auto-correlations, special
density and probability density input-output relationships, envelope of sine wave plus
Gaussian noise, optimum systems and nonlinear systems. Maximum signal to noise ratio'
criterion. Minimum mean square error criteria, equivalent noise bandwidth. SNR in envelope
detectors and PCM systems. Comparison of modulation systems.
Digital communication: Basic information theory: Definition of information, entropy,
uncertainty and information, rate of communication, redundancy, relation between systems
capacity and information content of messages, discrete systems, discrete noisy channel,
channel coding.
Introduction to digital communication, quantization, PCM, log-PCM, DM, DPCM, AD, PCM
and LPC for speech signals, TOM. Baseband transmission, optimum detection, matched
filter, optimum terminal filters. LSI pulse shapes for controlled ISI, line codes; digital RF
modulation. Modems, performance of digital modulation systems. Synchronization. Timing
recovery.
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Circuit Theory & Control

Group A
Graph of a network. Concept of tree, concepts of loop current and node pair voltage, circuits
cut-set and cut-set matrices, formulation of equilibrium equations of the loop and node basis.
Mesh and nodal analysis.
Laplace transform. Transient response using Laplace transform. Initial and final value
theorems. Unit step, impulse, ramp functions. Laplace transform for shifted and' singular
functions.
The convolution integral, Fourier series, complex exponential form of the Fourier series. The
frequency spectra of periodic waveforms and their relationship to Laplace transform.
The concept of complex frequency, transform impedance and admittance; series .and parallel
combinations. Frequency response, coupled circuits.
Terminals and terminal pairs, driving point impedance, transfer functions, poles and zeros,
restrictions on pole and zero locations in s-plane. Analysis of 1-port and 2-port networks.
Time domain behaviour from pole and zero plot, sinusoidal network functions in terms of
poles and zeros. Resonance, Q and bandwidth of a circuit.
Introduction to synthesis of passive networks: Butterworth’s, Chebyshev and Bessel type low
pass, high pass, band pass and band rejection filters.
Group B
Introduction: Basic concepts and symbols, open loop and closed loop systems, effects of
feedback. Concepts of linear and nonlinear systems. Definition of transfer function. Block
diagram representation. Signal flow graphs.
Servo components: Mathematical modelling and simulation of dynamic systems. Synchros,
potentiometers, gyros. d.c. and a.c. servomotors. d.c.. and a.c. tachogenerators. Power and
preamplifiers. Modulators and demodulators. Position and speed control systems.
Time response: Typical test input' signals. Time domain performance of first and second
order systems to impulse, step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs. Definition of error coefficients
and steady state error.
Stability: Routh-Hurwitz criteria.
Frequency response: Frequency domain specifications. Bode plots. Polar plots.
Regulators and controllers. Proportional, PI and PID controllers.

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Microprocessor & Microcontrollers

Group A
Microprocessor architecture and microcomputer systems, memory systems, input and output
devices. Number systems-binary, hexadecimal and BCD numbers, 2s complement and
arithmetic operations.
8085 microprocessor architecture. Memory interfacing address decoding techniques, memory
read and write operations. Memory map. Interfacing I/O devices- Memory-mapped I/O and
I/O mapped I/O. Polled and interrupt modes of data transfer. 8085 interrupts, direct memory
access. Introduction to 16-bit microprocessor using 8086 as an example. Concept of debugger
and MASM/T ASM for PC assembly language programming.
Peripheral devices. 8255 programmable peripheral interface, 8253 programmable counter
timer, serial communication with SID and SOD, 8251 programmable communication
interface, 8259 programmable interrupt controller, keyboard and display devices.
8085 assembly language programming: 8085 instructions-addressing modes. Stack and
subroutines. 8085 programmer's model-CPU registers. Addition, subtraction and
multiplication routines. Software delay and counting routines. Logical operations. Analog
and digital I/O interface routines-ADC and DAC.
Software development systems: Assemblers and cross assemblers.
Microprocessor applications. Microprocessor based system design aids and trouble-shooting
techniques.
Group B
Introduction to microcontroller: Comparison of various microcontrollers. 8051
microcontroller architecture. Bi-directional data ports, internal ROM and RAM,
counters/timers. Oscillator and clock.
8051 registers. Memory organisations-program memory and data memory, internal RAM and
bit addressable memory, special functions, registers, memory map.
External memory systems and I/O interface. Accessing external program memory, accessing
external data memory, available I/O ports during external memory access. Alternate ports
functions. Serial interface. 8051 interrupts. Power down modes.
8051 assembly language programming. 8051instruction sets, addressing modes, bit level
operations. Arithmetic routines, counting and timing under interrupt control, keyboard and
display interface routines, accessing lookup tables.
Software development systems. Assemblers and simulators. Microcontroller based system
design and applications.

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Electronic Circuits
Group A
Biasing techniques of BJT and FETs; Bias stability; Self-bias, hybrid II model of BJT and
'high frequency response.
Single stage amplifiers-bipolar amplifiers, CE, CB, CC configurations, characteristics, gain,
h-parameters, analysis using h-parameters. FET amplifiers.
Multistage amplifiers-classification, distortion, frequency response, step response, RC-
coupled amplifiers, transformer coupled amplifiers.
Feedback amplifiers-concept, gain with feedback, negative feedback-example of Boot
strapped CE amplifier, advantages and limitations, input and output impedance; voltage-
series, voltage-shunt, current -series, current-shunt feedback amplifiers.
Stability and oscillators-condition of oscillation, sinusoidal oscillator, phase shift oscillator,
resonant circuit oscillator, Wein bridge oscillator, crystal oscillator, stability of frequency.
Operational amplifiers-differential amplifiers, transfer characteristics, IC op-amp functions,
frequency response, step response; introduction to analog computer.
Power amplifiers-class A, B, AB, C amplifiers. Distortion, efficiency, push-pull principle,
power supply half wave, full wave, ripple factors, filters, regulation.
Group B
Introduction, binary numbers, binary codes.
Boolean algebra-functions and expressions, gates- OR, AND, NOT, NOR, NAND, De
Morgan's theorem, laws and theorems.
Minimization of logical functions-Karnaugh map.
Arithmetic circuits-Ex-OR gate, half adder, full adder, subtraction, code conversion, etc.
Basic gate structures-RTL, DTL, Tll.., ECL, MOS, CMOS.
Flip-flops-RS, T, RST, D, JK, Schmidt trigger, astable, monostable:
Counter techniques-Ripple counter, parallel counter.
BCD counter, synchronous counter, ring counter.
Shift registers, memory.
D/ A and A/D converters.

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Design of Electronic Devices &

Circuits
Group A
Introduction to linear ICs. Operational amplifiers and their basic applications;
audio/radio/video ICs and their specifications.
Power supplies. Rectifiers, filters and electronic stabilization circuits, considerations
regarding ripple, regulation and efficiency, short circuit protection; polyphase rectifiers,
electronic converters, applications in industry. Introduction to UPS.
IC voltage regulators. Positive and negative voltage regulators, adjustable voltage regulators,
high current short circuit protected regulators, dual tracking regulations, programmable
supply, current regulators, witching regulators, fold back current limited and shutdown
Circuits.
Amplifiers: Inverting amplifiers, non-inverting amplifiers, differential amplifiers, integrator
and differentiator, logarithmic amplifiers and multipliers, filters, voltage to frequency
converters, sample and hold circuit, high input impedance amplifiers, instrumentation
amplifiers, sensing amplifiers and comparators, zero crossing detector.
Group B
Oscillators. Expression for oscillation frequency and conditions for maintenance of
oscillations, sine wave oscillators, multivibrators, function generators, voltage controlled
oscillators, crystal oscillators.
Communication circuits. RF and IF amplifiers, video amplifiers, AM detectors, balanced
modulators and demodulators, phase locked loop, FM demodulation, frequency shift keying,
frequency multiplication.
Digital systems. Frequency counters, A/D and D/A converters, digital voltmeters,
programmable digital generators, frequency synthesizer. Design of ALU.

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Broadcast & Television Engineering

Group A
Microphones, loudspeaker recording and reproduction of sound—disc, tape, film recording,
playback system. High fidelity equipment for reproduction of sound. Loudspeaker enclosures
and baffles. Stereophonic sound system.
Studios and auditorium: Theory of reverberation, its limitation, measurement and adjustment.
Acoustic materials, design considerations of broadcasting studios and auditorium.
Broadcast transmitters—master oscillators, frequency multiplier, high and low level
modulation system. Class A, AB, and C power amplifiers, feeder lines.
Block diagram and principles of amplitude modulated and frequency modulated transmitters.
Studio equipment and control room apparatus. OB equipment and receiving centre's facilities.
Superhetrodyne receiver, communication receiver. Intermediate frequency, image frequency.
Receiver characteristics and measurement. Design considerations of modern broadcast
transmitters and receivers. Transmitting and receiving antennas. FM transmitters and
receivers.
Group B
Television system and standards—FCC and CCIR-B standards and their comparison.
Theory of scanning-progressive scanning, interlaced scanning. Video bandwidth.
Composite video signal-Hoz, Sync, hoz. blanking, equalizing pulses, serrations, block
diagram of sync, generator.
Television pick-up cubes and cameras-vidicon, plumbicon, saticon, etc., CCD image sensors,
picture tube, output coupling circuit.
Television broadcast studio facilities, block diagram of television transmitter. Digital
television.
Design considerations of transmitter and receiver. Feeder line, Balun, diplexer, vestigial side
band filters. Transmitter-receiver relationship, RA and TA system. Transmitting and
receiving antennas.
Block diagram of intercarrier type television receiver, RF tuner, mixer and 10-circuit design.
Sync, separator. IF amplifier characteristics and design. Trap circuit.
Elements of colour television, colour vector diagram, colour difference signal, I,Q,Y signals
and their bandwidths. Colour cameras and picture tubes, colour killer circuit, compatibility.
Propagation of television signal, telecine, CCTV, CATV, MATV, TV booster, VCR, VCP.

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Radar & Antenna Engineering

Group A
Block diagram of pulse radar. Radar equation. Signal-to-noise ratio, probability density
function and range, ambiguities, radar cross-section of target, target models, PRF, system
losses.
CW and frequency-modulated radar Doppler effect, CW radar, FMCW radar.
MTI and pulse Doppler radar-delay line cancellers and characteristics, blind speeds, douplet
cancellation. MTI radars with power amplifier and power oscillators, transmitters. MTI from
moving platform, pulse Doppler radars.
Tracking radars. Tracking techniques-sequential lobing, conical scan monopulse. Tracking in
range, acquisition. Tracking performance.
Electronic scanning radar system, beam forming and steering methods, fire controlled radar.
SAR.
Radar transmitters, magnetron oscillators, hard tube and line-type pulser. Radar receivers,
mixer amplifier, receiver noise, duplexers, displays, clutters, weather and interferences,
system engineering and design. Pulse compression radar.
Group B
Fundamentals of radiation mechanism, vector potentials, radiation from current elements,
radiation pattern, superposition and reciprocity theorems.
Small antennas, images, small antenna above ground, different types of linear arrays,
multiplication of patterns, binomial arrays, antenna gain, effective area, antenna impedance,
beam width, self and mutual impedance, folded dipole, Yaginda antennas.
Mathematical theories of antennas, aperture antennas, slot antennas, cavity back slot
antennas, horn antennas, waveguide radiator, parabolic reflectors, Cassegrain antennas.
Broad band antennas, microstrip antennas, noise consideration, antenna measurements.

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Microwave Engineering
Group A
Wave propagation through waveguides-rectangular, circular, elliptical-cutoff frequency,
modes, group and phase velocities.
Cavity resonators and filters.
Network representations of discontinuity—S-matrix. Impedance transformation and matching
technique.
Microwave passive components—Tee junctions, magic tee, couplers, circulators, attenuators,
phase shifters, bends, twists, corners, irises, windows.
Group B
Microwave generators and amplifiers—thyristor, magnetors, TWTs, BWOs, transistors,
tunnel diodes, PIN GUNN, etc. Parametric amplifier. Ferrite and ferrite devices.
Microwave propagation and link design.
Microwave measurements, network analyser concept. Anechoic chambers.
Microwave integrated circuits—MMIC, strip and microstrip lines, slot and coplanar lines.

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Optical & Satellite Communications

Group A
Optical fibre-step index, graded index, material, preparation, measurement of propagation,
properties, jointing, connectors and couplers. Fibre optic communication systems.
System model. Optical channel-space, fibre optic, sources-lasers, LEDs.
Fibre laser for optical communication through guided media.
Modulation techniques—direct modulation and indirect modulation—injection modulation,
A/O, E/O modulation techniques.
Optical detection—PIN diodes and APDs.
Optical communication systems—analog and digital communication system. Low
bandwidth/low bit rate to ultra wideband/ultra high bit-rate communication system.
Introduction to communication networks—LANs, MANs and WANs.
Group B
Satellite launching and control. Orbits. Launch vehicles and rockets. Space shuttles.
Propagation characteristics-attenuation, noise, space environment. Frequency bands.
Types of satellite systems. Satellite sub-system, power communication, control, thermal.
Earth station equipment. Satellite link design-power budget, EIRP, G/T ratio of receivers,
CNR of satellite system.
Multiple access technique, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, SPADE. Multiple beams-spot beams.

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Computer Networks &

Communications
Group A
Introduction-Principles of data communications: Analog and digital transmission,
multiplexing, transmission impairments, concepts of frequency spectrum and bandwidth,
bandwidth efficient modulation techniques.
Basics of computer networks: Protocol hierarchies, design issues for the layers, interfaces and
services. Concepts of circuit switching and packet switching, connection-oriented and
connectionless services. Reference models—OSI model and TCP/IP reference model.
Example networks.
Physical layer: Transmission media—twisted pair, coaxial cable, optical fibre. Wireless
transmission—radio, microwave, infrared and millimeter waves, telephone (Systems, cell
phones. RS-232C, SONET, modems.
Data link layer: Services provided to the network layer, framing, error control, flow control.
Error detection and correction. Unrestricted simplex protocol, stop-and-wait protocol, sliding
window protocols. HDLC.
Network layer: Design issues. Routing algorithms. Congestion control. Internetworking:
concepts of subnetwork, bridges, etc. X.25 frame relay.
Group B
Transport layer: Services provided to the upper layers. Elements of transport control
protocols—addressing, establishing a connection, releasing a connection, flow control and
buffering, crash recovery. Example of simple protocols using services primitives. TCP and
UDP.
IP: IPV4 datagram, IP addressing. ICMP.
Media access control protocols: Concept of LANs and MANs. ALOHA, slotted ALOHA,
CSMA, CSMA/ €D. Ethernet, token bus, token ring, FDDL
ATM: Protocol architecture. ATM logical connections. ATM cells. Transmission of ATM
cells. ATM adaptation layer. Traffic and congestion control.
Narrowband and broadband ISDN. Application layer: SNMP, SMTP, FTP, TELNET.

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Digital Hardware Design

Group A
Basics of digital electronics: Number representation, Boolean algebra, logic minimization,
hazard-free design.
Combinatorial and sequential design-Synchronous and asynchronous circuits.
Memories and PLA.
Finite state machines.
Group B
Processor model: Datapath synthesis and control structures.
Fast adders, multipliers, barrel shifters, etc.
Microprogrammed control unit.
Pipelined and parallel architectures.
Fault-tolerant structures.

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Pulse & Digital Circuits

Group A
Combinational Logic
Boolean algebra: Introduction, postulates of Boolean algebra, fundamental theorems,
uniqueness properties, laws of Boolean algebra, De Morgan's theorem, the (inclusion)
implication relation, bounds of Boolean algebra, duality in Boolean algebra, Boolean
constants, variables and functions, two-valued Boolean algebra switching algebra, electronic
gates and mechanical contacts.
Boolean functions and logic operations: Introduction, the normal form, the canonical form,
fundamental products and sums, disjunctive and conjunctive normal forms, binary, octal and
hexadecimal, designations, self-dual functions, logical operations, NAND and NOR
operations, EXCLUSIVE-OR operation, functionally complete sets.
Minimization of switching functions: The Karnaugh map-introduction cubes and the
Karnaugh map, prime cubes, maximum sum of products, minimum product of sums, don't
care forms, five- and six-variable maps, multiple output minimization.
Tabular methods of minimization: Introduction, Quine-McCluskey algorithm, the dominance
relation cyclic functions, the degree of adjacency and essential prime cubes.
Logic synthesis of switching functions: Introduction, AND, OR and inverter networks,
NAND and NOR networks, EXCLUSIVE-OR networks, multiplexers, read only memories,
programmable logic arrays (PLA), PLA minimization, essential prime cube theorems, PLA
folding.
Reliable design and fault detection tests: Introduction, fault classes and models, fault
diagnosis and testing, test generation, fault table method, path sensitization method, Boolean
difference method, reliability through redundancy, hazards and hazard-free designs, quaded
logic.
Group B
Sequential Circuits
Introduction to synchronous sequential circuits, the finite-state model-basic definitions, the
memory elements and their excitation functions-S-R flip-flop, J-K flip-flop,D flip-flop, T
flip-flop, synthesis of synchronous sequential circuits.
Capabilities, minimization and transformation of sequential machines, the finite-state model-
further definitions, capabilities and limitations of finite-state machines, state equivalence and
machine minimization, simplification of incompletely specified machines compatible states,
the non-uniqueness of minimal machines, closed set of compatibles. The compatible graph
and the merger table.
Asynchronous sequential circuits. Fundamental mode circuits, synthesis, state assignments in
asynchronous sequential circuits, pulse mode circuits.
Finite state recognizers: Deterministic recognizers, transition graphs, converting non-
deterministic into deterministic graphs, regular expressions, transition graphs recognizing
regular sets, regular sets corresponding to transition graphs.
IC Design Techniques
Group A
Introduction to IC design flow; System specification to final packaging.
MOS transistor, CMOS inverter, static and dynamic logic circuits, latch up problem in
CMOS.
Factors for optimization (speed, power, area, etc.)
Timing issues: Clock skew, critical path, logic hazards, etc.
Interconnect: Capacitive, resistive and inductive parasitics.
Basic concepts of partitioning, floor planning, placement, routing and layout. Design rule and
circuit extraction, mask making procedure.
Computer aided design, simulation and testing, behavioural modelling and hardware
description language.
Group B
Memories and other replicable structures: ROM, PROM, EPROM, E2PROM, Static RAM
and dynamic RAM, PLA and PAL.
Basic design methodologies: Full custom and semi-custom design. ASIC vs. field
programmable devices.
Basic fabrication technology: Bipolar and MOS processing steps and important process
parameters.
Importance of semiconductor device modelling. Computer aided design.

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Solid State Physics & Semiconductor

Devices
Group A
Solid state physics: Atomic structures and quantum mechanical concepts,-chemical bonds,
solid state structure, band structure, election and hole concept, intrinsic, extrinsic and
compensated semiconductors, carrier concentration, lattice vibrations, mobilities and drift
velocities, Fermi level, energy-band diagram-Carrier transport mechanism: Scattering and
drift of electrons and holes, diffusion mechanism, Hall effect, magneto-resistance, quasi-
Fermi levels, generation, recombination and injection, of carriers, Boltzman transport
equation and scattering rates, transient response, basic governing equations in semiconductor.
P-N junction theory:. Physical description of P-N junction, depletion approximation, biasing,
transition capacitance, varacter, junction breakdown, space charge effect and diffusion
approximation, current-voltage characteristics and temperature dependence, tunneling
current, small signal a.c. analysis.
Bipolar junction transistors: BJT action, derivation of current components and gain
expressions, breakdown voltages, Ebers-Moll model, hybrid-pi equivalent circuit, frequency
response of transistors, P-N diode, SCR.
Group B
Fundamentals on technology of semiconductor devices; Unit processes for semiconductor
device fabrication, oxidation, diffusion, photolithography and etching, film deposition, device
isolation, integrated BJT fabrication processes.
Field effect transistors-JFET and MOSFET: Physical description and theory of JFET, static
characteristics, small signal analysis, equivalent circuit, MOS structure, MOS capacitance,
flat-band threshold voltages, MOS static characteristics, small signal parameters and
equivalent circuit, charge-sheet model, strong, moderate and weak inversion, short-channel
effects, hot-carrier effects, scaling laws of MOS transistors, LDD MOSFET, NMOS and
CMOS IC technology, CMOS latch-up phenomenon.
Metal semiconductor junctions: Ideal Schottky barrier, current-voltage characteristics, MIS
diode, Ohmic contacts, heterojunctions, MESFET.
Photonic devices: Optical absorption in a semiconductor, photovoltaic effect, solar cell,
photoconductors, PIN photodiode, avalanche photodiode, LED, semiconductor lasers.

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Software Engineering
Group A
Software project planning and management: Basic concepts of life cycles models, milestone,
cost models, successive versions model, project structure, team structure. Empirical and
heuristic estimation techniques.
Requirement analysis. Specifications, algebraic axioms, regular expressions, decision tables,
event tables, transition tables, FS mechanism, petri nets.
Software design: Architectural and detailed design, abstraction, information hiding,
modularity, concurrency, etc, coupling and cohesion, data How diagrams, structure charts,
pseudo code, stepwise refinement, top-down and bottom-up programming.
Test plan and implementation issues-structured coding, recursion, documentation.
Group B
Modern programming language features: Typeless, strong type and pseudo strong type
checking, user defined data types, data encapsulation, generic facilities,' concurrency
mechanism, object oriented concepts.
Program verification and validation. Unit testing, integration testing, acceptance testing,
formal verification.
Software maintenance: Source code metrics, Halstead's effort equation, cyclomatic metric.
Reliability and software quality assurance.
Software cost estimation.

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Sensors & Transducers

Group A
Functional description of instrumentation systems. Performance characteristics-static and
dynamic, time and frequency responses.
Electrical passive transducers. Hot wire anemometers and associated circuit, LVDT and
phase-sensitive: detection, variable reluctance type transducers and associated circuits.
Capacitive microphone and associated circuits.
Magnetostrictive transducers: Magnetostrictive materials and their application to
measurement of force.. Hall transducers: principles and applications.
Thermocouple, semiconductor-type temperature sensors.
Piezoelectric transducers: Piezoelectric crystal and its properties, sensitive coefficients,
ferroelectric materials, bimorph, charge amplifiers, measurement of force.
Group B
Signal conditioning: Push-pull arrangement and reduction of non-linearity. Linearizing
circuits and their applications. Differential amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, logarithmic
amplifiers. Sources of noise and their reduction, grounding and shielding techniques.
Special transducers: Digital shaft encoders. DC and AC tachogenerators, synchros.
Actuators and servos: DC and AC servomotors, step motors. Elastic transducers: Springs
bellows, diaphragms, Bourdon tubes-their characteristics and applications, combination of
elastic and electrical transducers. Pneumatic sensors.

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Industrial Instrumentation &

Computer Control
Group A
Ultrasonic devices and their applications for sensing and non-destructive testing.
Radio isotopes and their applications. Radio isotope sources, nucleonic detectors, ionization
chambers, proportional-Geiger Mueller-and scintillation-counters. Ionization gauges and
nucleonic gauges for measurement of thickness, density, pressure, flow, etc.
Optical transducers: LDR, LEDs, lasers, photodiodes, photomultiplier tubes, IR and UV
detectors. Applications to industrial and pollution measurement. Introduction to optical fibre
based sensors.
Microwave sensors: Doppler shift technique for velocity measurement.
Sampling techniques for liquids and gases for analysis purposes. Gas analysis, gas
chromatography, thermal conductivity method, heat of reaction method.
Paramagnetic oxygen meters.
Group B
Humidity and moisture measurement, measurement of viscosity, pH measurement, electrical
conductivity measurement.
Spectrochemical analysis: Mass spectrometry, emission spectrometry, absorption
spectrometry.
Different types of digital control. Single loop and multiloop, direct digital control, software
implementation of multiloop controllers. Sequence control: Programmable logic controllers,
relay ladder logic programming.
Supervisory control: Functionality, process optimization, process monitoring. Man-machine
interfaces. On-line computer control of processes.

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Biomedical Electronics
Group A
Introduction to human physiology: Body skeleton: Nerve physiology, membrane protenual
and action potential, function of nerves and of myoneural junction.
Muscle physiology: Functions of skeleton and smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and its
rhythmic contraction.
Heart physiology: Dynamics of system, blood flow, arterial pressure, ECG.
Respirations: Mechanism of respiration.
Neuro physiology: C N S function of spinal cord and cord reflexes.
Transducers and electrodes: Different types of transducers and their selection for biomedical
applications. Electrode theory. Different types of electrodes-hydrogen, calomel, Ag-AgCI,
pH, P02-PC02 electrodes, selection criteria of electrodes.
Group B
Measurement and recording: Cardiovascular measurement: The heart and other
cardiovascular systems. Measurement of blood pressure, blood flow, cardiac output and
cardiac rate. Electrocardiography, phonocardiography ballistocardiography,
plethysmography, magnet cardiography, computer applications.
Measurement of electrical activities in muscles and brain. Electromyography,
electroencephalograph and their interpretation.
Respiratory mechanism. Measurement of gas volume, flow rate, carbon dioxide and oxygen
concentration in inhaled air, respiratory controller.
Instrumentation for clinical laboratory: Measurement of pi f value of blood, ESR
measurements, haemoglobin measurement, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentration in
blood, GSR measurement, polarographic measurements, computer applications.
Medical imaging: Ultrasound imaging, radiography magnetic resonance technique and
applications.
Biotelemetry: Transmission and reception aspects of biological signals via long distances.
Patient care monitoring.
Electronic instruments affecting the human body. Stimulator, defibrillator, pacemaker,
diathermy, blood pumps, myoelectric control of paralysed muscles.

questions.
Signal Processing
Group A
Periodic signal analysis: Fourier series, a periodic signal analysis, Fourier transform. Discrete
representation of signals, Z-transform, sampling theorem. Effect of quantization. Flow graph.
Digital filter design: IIR filter design based on analog filters, inpui variance and bilinear
transformation approach.
Computer aided design. FIR filter design using windows, computer-aided design.
Introduction to multirate filters.
Group B
Computation of the DFT, DCT and WHT. The FFT, mixed radix algorithm, simulation of
digital filters. Hardware implementation. Effects of finite register length.
Digital signal processors (Ex TMS-320 family). Discrete random signals. Discrete
correlation. Estimation of power spectral density. Application of digital signal processing.

questions.
Control Systems
Group A
Frequency response techniques: Nyquist criteria—the principle of argument, the Nyquist
path; Nyquist criteria for stability, effect of addition of poles and zeros on the shape of
Nyquist locus.
Relative stability: Determination of gain margin and phase margin from Nyquist and Bode
plots. Constant M and N loci in the G-plane; Nichol's charts. Application of Nichol's charts.
State space techniques: State variable analysis o! dynamical systems, canonical forms,
controllability and observability, stability. Introduction to optimal control quadratic
performance index and regulator problems.
Group B
Compensation techniques: Specifications of control systems in time and frequency domains.
Series compensations—lag, lead and lag-lead design using Bode plots. Linear system design
by state variable feedback.
Discrete data systems: Z-transforms and inverse Z transforms, stability-unit circle, bilinear
transform, Jury' stability criterion. Difference equations. Types of digital control of plants.
Nonlinear elements and systems: Phase-plane an< describing function methods. Stability
analysis am Liapunov's method.

questions.

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