Solid-state semiconductor devices: Diodes, Zener diodes, Transistors (Bipolar, BJT, JFET, MOSFET). Biasing and their applications, Analysis of electronic circuits, equivalent circuit.
Rectifier, filter and voltage regulators. Single stage and multistage amplifiers-gain and frequency response., flip-flops and their applications.
Large signal amplifiers: coupling methods, push-pull amplifiers, operational amplifier, wave shaping circuits,. Multivibrators, flip-flop and their applications.
Digital logic gate families, universal gates, combinational circuit for arithmetic and logic operation, sequential logic circuits. Counters, registers, RAM and ROMs.
Communication: Generation and detection of AM and FM, noise behaviour of AM and FM systems.
3. Power Electronics
Power semiconductor devices, triac, GTO, MOSFET, Thyristor. Static characteristics and triggering circuits
Clipping, Clamping, A.C. to D.C. Converters, choppers. Controlled and uncontrolled power rectifiers, Bridge converters, multivibrators, Oscillators.
4. Microprocessor systems and computer
Fundamentals, Microprocessor architecture 8085, Instruction set and simple assembly language programming
Interfacing of peripheral devices such as General Purpose I/O, memory devices, Applications of microprocessors.
Basic layout of digital computers, input-output devices, memory organisations, algorithms, flowcharts.
5. Control System
Open and closed-loop systems: Block diagrams and signal flow graphs, Transfer function models of linear time-invariant systems, Response analysis in time and frequency domain; steady-state error analysis.
Concept of Stability, Routh-Hurwitz Criteria, Nyquist criteria, Relative Stability analysis, Bode plots, gain margin, phase margin.
