B.Tech (ECE) - Basics - 30 Days

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1. Materials and components

Structure and properties of Electronic Engineering materials, Conductors, Semiconductors and

Insulators, Magnetic, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Ceramic, Optical and Superconducting

materials. Passive components and characteristics, Resistors, Capacitors and Inductors; Ferrites,

Quartz crystal, Ceramic resonators, Electromagnetic and Electromechanical components.

2. Physical Electronics, Electron Devices and ICs

Electrons and holes in semiconductors, Carrier Statistics, Mechanics of current flow in a semiconductor, Hall effect; Junction theory; Different types of diodes and their characteristics; Bipolar

Junction transistor; Field effect transistors; Power switching devices like SCRs, CTOs, power

MOSFETs; Basics of ICs-bipolar, MOS and CMOS types; Basics of Opto Electronics.

3. Network theory

Network analysis techniques: Network theorem, transcient and steady state sinusoidal response,

Transmission criteria: delay and rise time Elmore’s and other definition, effect of cascading.

Elements of network synthesis.

4. Electromagnetic Theory

Transmission lines: basic theory, standing waves, matching applications, microstrip lines; Basics

of waveguides and resonators; Elements of antenna theory.

5. Electronic Measurements and instrumentation

Basic concepts, standards and error analysis; Measurements of basic electrical quantities and

parameters; Electronic measuring instruments and their principles of working: analog and digital,comparison, characteristics, applications. Transducers; Electronic measurements of non-electrical

quantities like temperature, pressure, humidity etc. Basics of telemetry for industrial use.

6. Power Electronics

Power Semiconductor devices, Thyristor, Power transistor, MOSFETs, Characteristics and

operation. AC to DC convertors; 1-Phase and 3-phase DC to DC Convertors.

AC regulators. Thyristor controlled reactors, switched capacitor networks.

Inverters: Single-phase and 3-phase. Pulse width modulation. Sinusoidal modulation with

uniform sampling. Switched mode power supplies. 

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                                                                      Specialization

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1. Analog Electronic Circuits

Transistor biasing and stabilization, Small Signal analysis. Power amplifiers. Frequency response,

Wide band techniques, Feedback amplifiers. Tuned amplifiers. Oscillators. Rectifiers and power

supplies. Operational Amplifier, other linear integrated circuits and applications. Pulse shaping

circuits and waveform generators.

2. Digital Electronic Circuits

Transistor as a switching element; Boolean algebra, simplification of Boolean functions,

Karnaugh Map and applications; IC Logic gates and their characteristics; IC logic families: DTL,

TTL, ECL, NMOS, PMOS and CMOS gates and their comparison; Combinational logic circuits; Half

adder, full adder; Digital Compartor; Multiplexer Demultiplexer; ROM and their applications. Flipflops, R-S, J-K, D and T flip-flops; Different types of counters and registers; waveform

generators. A/D and D/A convertors. Semiconductor memories.

3. Control Systems

Transient and steady state response of control systems; Effect of feedback on stability and

sensitivity, Root locus techniques; Frequency response analysis. Concepts of gain and phase

margins; Constant-M and Constant-N Nichol’s Chart; Approximation of transient response from

Constant-N Nichol’s Chart; Approximation of transient response from closed loop frequency

response; Design of Control Systems, Compensators; Industrial controllers.

4. Communication systems

Basic information theory: Modulation and detection in analogue and digital systems; Sampling

and data reconstruction. Quantization & Coding; Time division and frequency division

multiplexing; Equalisation; Optical Communication: in free space & fibre optic; Propagation of

signals at HF, VHF, UHF and microwave frequency; Satellite communication.

5. Microwave Engineering

Microwave Tubes and solid state devices, Microwave generation and amplifiers, Waveguides and

other Microwave Components and Circuits, Microstrip circuits, Microwave antennas, Microwave

Measurements, MASERS LASERS; Microwave Propogation. Microwave Communication Systemsterrestrial and satellite based. 

6. Computer Engineering

Number Systems; Data representation; Programming; Elements of a high level programming

language PASCAL/C; use of basic data structures; Fundamentals of computer architecture

processor design; Control unit design; Memory organization. I/O System Organization. Personal

computers and their typical uses.

7. Microprocessors - 8085

Microprocessor architecture - Instruction set and simple assembly language programming.

Interfacing for memory and I/O. Applications of Microprocessors in Telecommunications and

power system.