Section-B Syllabus(E&C Engg)

SYLLABUS OF SECTION B

Electronics & Communication Engg.

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

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., balancesheet,
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, ecommerce
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.

CIRCUIT THEORY AND 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 behavior 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: Butterworths, 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.

MICROPROCESSOR AND MICRO CONTROLLERS
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 troubleshooting
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.

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Group A
Blasting 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, RCcoupled
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; voltageseries,
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.

DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND 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.