ECE 5th Semester Syllabus

1. Unit 1Salient features of advanced microprocessors and 8086 architecture

   Salient features of advanced microprocessors · RISC & CISC processors · Review and evolution of advanced microprocessors (8086, 8088, 80186/286/386/486/Pentium) · Introduction to 8086 processor: Register organization · Architecture of 8086 · Signal description of 8086 · Minimum mode 8086 systems and timings · Maximum mode 8086 systems and timings

2. Unit 2Intel 8086 microprocessor programming

   Intel 8086 microprocessor programming · 8086 Instruction Set · Addressing modes · Assembly Language Programming with Intel 8086 microprocessor

3. Unit 3Interfacing chips and peripherals

   Introduction to interfacing chips (8155, 8255) · Interfacing key boards · LEDs interfacing · ADC interfacing · DAC interfacing · Memory interfacing

4. Unit 4Programmable peripheral devices and communication

   General purpose programmable peripheral device 8253 · 8254 programmable interval timer · 8259A programmable interrupt controller · 8257 DMA controller · USART · Serial I/O and data communication

5. Unit 5Microcontrollers (8051) and embedded systems

   Introduction to microcontrollers (8051) and embedded systems · 8051 architecture · Pin description · I/O configuration · Interrupts · Addressing modes · Overview of 8051 instruction set · Embedded system concepts · Use of microcontrollers in embedded systems

1. Unit 1Sampling theorem and multiplexing

   Sampling theorem for low‑pass and band‑pass signals · Ideal sampling · Natural sampling · Flat‑top sampling · Crosstalk · Aliasing · Time‑division multiplexing · PAM generation and detection · PWM generation and detection · PPM generation and detection

2. Unit 2Pulse Code Modulation and encoding techniques

   Pulse code modulation · Quantization · Quantization noise · Companding · Inter‑symbol interference · Eye pattern · Delta modulation · Adaptive modulation · On‑Off signaling · Polar signaling · RZ signaling · Bipolar signaling · AMI · Manchester code · Differential encoding · Advantages and disadvantages of encoding techniques

3. Unit 3Band‑pass data transmission modulation schemes

   Amplitude shift keying (ASK) · Binary phase shift keying (BPSK) · Quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) · Differential phase shift keying (DPSK) · Coherent BFSK · Non‑coherent BFSK · Minimum shift keying (MSK) · Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) · M‑ary PSK concept · M‑ary FSK concept · Spectral properties of QPSK · Spectral properties of MSK

4. Unit 4Detection, signal space and error probability

   Matched filter detector · Correlator detector · Gram–Schmidt orthogonalization procedure · Signal space concept for probability‑of‑error computation · Error probability calculation for BPSK · Error probability calculation for QPSK · Error probability calculation for QAM · Error probability calculation for coherent BFSK · Comparison of different modulation techniques

5. Unit 5Information theory and error‑correcting codes

   Information theory concepts · Entropy · Information rate · Channel capacity · Shannon’s theorem · Shannon‑Hartley theorem · Bandwidth and signal‑to‑noise ratio trade‑off · Source encoding · Extension of zero‑memory source · Linear block codes · Cyclic codes · Encoder and decoder circuits for block/cyclic codes · Burst error‑correcting codes · Convolutional codes concepts

1. Unit 1Characteristic Parameters of symmetrical and asymmetrical two‑port networks and their design

   Image impedance · Iterative impedance · Characteristic impedance · Propagation coefficient · Image transfer coefficient · Iterative transfer coefficient · Lattice and Bridged‑T networks · Reactive matching networks · Matching techniques · Insertion loss · Symmetrical and asymmetrical attenuators and their design

2. Unit 2Passive LC Filters

   Analysis and design of low‑pass filters · Analysis and design of high‑pass filters · Analysis and design of band‑pass filters · Analysis and design of band‑elimination filters · m‑derived filters · Composite filters · Filter specifications · Butterworth approximation · Chebyshev approximation · Elliptic function approximation · Frequency transformation

3. Unit 3Positive real function and network synthesis

   LC, RL, RC, and RLC network synthesis · Foster network · Cauer network · Minimum positive real function · Brune’s method · Bott‑Duffin method · Synthesis coefficient

4. Unit 4Transmission line fundamentals

   Lumped‑parameter equivalent · Voltage and current on a transmission line · Infinite line · Characteristic impedance and propagation constant · Waveform distortion · Attenuation and phase equalizers · Distortion‑less line · Loading · Line reflection on a line · Reflection coefficient · Input and transfer impedances · Open‑circuit and short‑circuit line · Reflection factors · Reflection loss · Insertion loss · T and π equivalents of a line · Location of line fault · Construction and design of two‑wire line · Construction and design of coaxial cable

5. Unit 5Line at radio frequencies

   Parameters of line and coaxial cable at radio frequencies · Dissipation‑less line · Voltage and current on a dissipation‑less line · Standing waves · Standing wave ratio · Input impedance of open‑circuit and short‑circuit · Power and impedance measurement on lines · Eighth‑wave line · Quarter‑wave line · Half‑wave line · Circle diagram · Smith chart · Solution of problems using Smith chart · Single and double stub matching · Introduction to micro‑strip lines and its analysis

1. Unit 1Introduction to wireless communication systems

   different generations of wireless networks · Cellular system design fundamentals · frequency reuse · handoff strategies · interference and system capacity · trunking and grade of service

2. Unit 2Mobile radio propagation

   Free space propagation model · Ground reflection propagation model · Long term fading · Small scale multipath propagation · Time dispersion parameters · Coherence bandwidth · Doppler spread and coherence time · Types of small‑scale fading · Clarke’s model for flat fading · Level crossing and fading statistics

3. Unit 3Capacity in cellular systems

   cell splitting and sectoring · cell‑site antennas and mobile antenna · co‑channel interference reduction · frequency management and channel assignment

4. Unit 4Frequency division and time division multiple access

   Global System for Mobile (GSM) system architecture · GSM radio subsystem · GSM traffic channel and control channel · GSM frame structure

5. Unit 5Spread spectrum multiple access

   Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (FHMA) · Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) · different spreading codes · CDMA digital cellular system – standards, forward and reverse channels · capacity of cellular systems

1. Unit 1Advantages and disadvantages of digital control system

   Ideal sampler · Sampled and hold circuit · Zero order hold circuit · Z transform · Inverse Z transform by various method · Mapping between s plane and Z plane · Solution of the linear difference equation

2. Unit 2Pulse transfer function

   General procedure for obtaining pulse transfer function · Pulse transfer function of cascaded elements · Pulse transfer function of closed loop systems · Transfer function of discrete data system · Stability analysis of closed loop system in the z plane · Jury stability test

3. Unit 3Non Linear Systems

   Introduction · Common physical non linearity’s · Phase plane method · Basic concepts · Singular points · Stability of non linear system · Construction of phase trajectories · System analysis by phase plane method · Describing functions methods · Basic concepts derivation of describing function · Liapunov’s stability criterion

4. Unit 4Root locus and state space methods

   Review of root locus · Lead compensation · Lag compensation · Lag‑lead compensation and their comparison · Review of state space methods · Observability and controllability of system · Pole placement by state feedback

5. Unit 5PID controller and MATLAB Simulink

   Tuning rules of PID controller · Modifications of PID controllers · Introduction to software package used in control systems‑MATLAB SIMULINK

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1. Unit 1Steady Electric Field

   Coulomb’s Law · units · Electric field intensity · Electric flux and flux density · Gauss law · Boundary relations · concept of divergence · Curl · scalar and vector potential · electric field in dielectric and conductor · continuity equation · methods of images

2. Unit 2Magnetic field due to steady currents

   Magnetic field due to steady currents · force between current carrying wires · Stokes theorem · vector magnetic potential · magnetization vector and its relation to magnetic field

3. Unit 3Maxwell’s Equation

   Time varying field and displacement current · Faraday’s law

4. Unit 4Wave Equation

   Pointing vector · Plane electromagnetic waves in free space · Plane electromagnetic waves in dielectric medium and conducting medium · Skin depth · slepian vector

5. Unit 5Waves propagation in lossy dielectrics

   Waves propagation in lossy dielectrics · plane waves in lossless dielectrics · reflection of a plane wave at normal incidence · reflection of a plane wave at oblique incidence

1. Unit 1COMPUTER BASICS AND CPU

   Von Neumann model · Various subsystems · CPU · Memory · I/O · System Bus · CPU and Memory registers · Program Counter · Accumulator · Instruction register · Micro operations · Register Transfer Language · Instruction fetch, decode and execution · Data movement and manipulation · Instruction formats and addressing modes of basic computer

2. Unit 2CONTROL UNIT ORGANIZATION AND ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC UNIT

   Hardwired control unit · Micro‑ and nano‑programmed control unit · Control memory · Address sequencing · Micro‑instruction formats · Micro‑program sequencer · Microprogramming · Arithmetic processor · Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division · Floating‑point and decimal arithmetic · Design of arithmetic unit

3. Unit 3INPUT OUTPUT ORGANIZATION

   Program‑controlled, interrupt‑driven and DMA data‑transfer modes · Interrupt structures · I/O interface · Asynchronous data transfer · I/O processor · Serial and parallel data transfer · Synchronous and asynchronous transmission · Simplex, half‑duplex and full‑duplex communication

4. Unit 4MEMORY ORGANIZATION

   Memory maps · Memory hierarchy · Cache memory organization and mapping · Associative memory · Virtual memory · Memory management hardware

5. Unit 5MULTIPROCESSORS

   Pipeline and vector processing · Instruction and arithmetic pipelines · Vector and array processors · Interconnection structures · Inter‑processor communication

1. Unit 1Introduction

   Historical perspective of process control · Incentives of process control · Synthesis of control system · Classification and definition of process variables · Need and application of mathematical modeling · Lumped and distributed parameters · Analogies: thermal, electrical, and chemical systems · Modeling of CSTR · Modeling of heat exchanger · Interactive and non‑interactive type of system · Dead time elements · Developing continuous‑time and discrete‑time models from process data

2. Unit 2Control Modes

   Definition of control modes · Characteristics and comparison of on‑off, proportional, integral, differential, PI, PD, PID control · Dynamic behavior of feedback‑controlled processes for different control modes · Control system quality indices: IAE, ISE, IATE · Tuning of controllers using Ziegler‑Nichols method · Tuning of controllers using Cohen‑Coon method · Controller troubleshooting

3. Unit 3Realization of Control Modes

   Realization of P, I, D control modes in electric controllers · Realization of P, I, D control modes in pneumatic controllers · Realization of P, I, D control modes in hydraulic controllers · Use of DDC and PLC for control · Process monitoring · Man‑machine interface · Introduction to real‑time systems (RTS) and their characteristics

4. Unit 4Actuators

   Hydraulic actuators · Pneumatic actuators · Solenoid actuators · E‑P converters · Control valves: types and functions · Quick‑opening valves · Linear and equal‑percentage valves · Ball valves · Butterfly valves · Globe valves · Pinch valves · Valve application and selection · Cavitation and flashing phenomena · Dampers and variable‑speed drives

5. Unit 5Advanced Controls

   Advanced control strategies: cascade control · Feed‑forward control · Ratio control · Selective control · Override control · Split‑range control · Auctioneering control · Plant‑wide control · PI diagrams: symbols and terminology · PI diagrams: case studies · Overview of instrumentation and control relevant to industries