EX-604 (A) · Electronic Instrumentation/Official Syllabus
Electronic Instrumentation (EX-604 (A)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Introduction to CRO
- Different parts of CRO, Its Block diagram
- Electrostatic focusing
- Electrostatic deflection
- post deflection acceleration
- Screen for CRTs, Graticule
- Vertical & Horizontal deflection system
- Time base circuit
- Oscilloscope probes and transducers, Attenuators
- Application of CROs
- Lissajous patterns
- Special purpose CROs- Multi input, Dual trace, Dual beam, Sampling, Storage (Analog & Digital) Oscilloscopes
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Unit 2
A.C. Bridge Measurement
- Sources and detectors
- Use of Bridges for measurement of inductance, Capacitance & Q factor
- Maxwells bridge, Maxwells inductance capacitance bridge
- Hays bridge
- Andersons bridge
- Owen's Bridge
- De-sauty's Bridge
- Schering Bridge, High Voltage Schering bridge
- Measurement of relative permittivity
- Heaviside cambell's bridge
- Weins bridge
- Universal bridge
- Sources of errors in Bridge circuit
- Wagner's Earthing device
- Q meter and its applications and measurement methods
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Unit 3
Transducers
- Transducers definition and classification
- mechanical devices as primary detectors
- Characteristic & choice of Transducers
- Resistive inductive and capacitive transducers
- strain gauge and gauge factor
- Thermistor, Thermo couples
- LVDT, RVDT, Synchros
- Piezo-Electric transducers, Magnet elastic and magneto strictive Hall effect transducers
- Opto-electronic transducers such as photo voltaic, Photo conductive, photo diode and photo conductive cells, Photo transistors, Photo optic transducers
- Introduction to analog& Digital data acquisition systems-Instrumentation systems used
- Interfacing transducers to electronic control & measuring systems Multiplexing - D/A multiplexing A-D Multiplexing
- Special encoders. Digital control description
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Unit 4
Signal Generators
- Fixed & variable frequency AF oscillators, Sine wave generators, Standard signal generator
- AF Sine and Square wave generator Function generator, Square and pulse generator
- Random noise generator, Sweep generator, TV Sweep generator
- Marker generator, Sweep- Marker generator, Wobblyscope
- Video pattern generator Vectroscope
- Beat frequency oscillator Wave analyser Basic wave analyzer
- Frequency selective wave analyzer, Heterodyne wave analyzer, Harmonic distortion, analyzer
- spectrum analyzer digital Fourier analyzer
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Unit 5
Digital Instruments
- Advantages of Digital instruments over analog instruments, resolution and sensitivity of Digital meters
- Digital Voltmeter - Ramp type, Dual slope integration type, Integrating type, Successive approximation type, Continuous balance DVM or Servo balancing potentiometer type DVM
- compression of Electronic & Digital Volt meter, Digital Multimeter
- Digital frequency meter, Time period measurement, High frequency measurement
- Electronic counter, Digital tachometer, Digital PH meter, Digital phase meter, Digital capacitance meter
- Digital display system and indicators like CRT, LED, LCD, Nixies, Electro luminescent, Incandescent, Electrophoretic image display, Liquid vapour display dot-matrix display
- Analog recorders, X-Y recorders
- Instruments used in computer-controlled instrumentation RS 232C and IEEE 488, GPIB electric interface
Reference Books
- Modern Electronic Instrumentation and measurement techniques
- Electronic Instrumentation
- Electrical and Electronic measurements and Instrumentation
- Electrical Measurement and Measuring Instruments
- Instrumentation Devices and Systems
- Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis
- Principles of Measurement & Instrumentation
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