PART – A

Unit-I

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES AND APPLICATIONS: p-n junction diode, Characteristics and Parameters, Diode approximations, DC load line, Temperature dependence of p-n characteristics, AC equivalent circuits, Zener diodes Half-wave diode rectifier, Ripple factor, Full-wave diode rectifier, Other full-wave circuits, Shunt capacitor - Approximate analysis of capacitor filters, Power supply performance, Zener diode voltage regulators, Numerical examples as applicable (T1-2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4:2.5,2.6,2.9,R1- 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.8; T1- 3.5, 3.6).

        07 Hours

Unite-II

TRANSISTORS: Bipolar Junction transistor, Transistor Voltages and currents, amplification, Common Base, Common Emitter and Common Collector Characteristics, DC Load line and Bias Point.

                                                                                                             06 Hours

Unit-III

BIASING METHODS: Base Bias, Collector to Base Bias, Voltage divider Bias, Comparison of basic bias circuits, Bias circuit design, Thermal Stability of Bias Circuits (Qualitative discussions only).                                                                                              (For Units II & III: T1- 4.1,4.2,4.3,4.4,4.5,4.6,5.1,5.2,5.3,5.4,5.5,5.7,5.9).

        06 Hours

Unit-IV

OTHER DEVICES: Silicon Controlled Rectifier (S.C.R), SCR Control Circuits, More S.C.R applications; Unijunction transistor, UJT applications, Junction Field effect Transistors(Exclude Fabrication and Packaging), JFET Characteristics, FET Amplifications, Numerical examples as applicable (T1 -19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.7, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4)                                                    

07 Hours

PART – B

Unit-V

AMPLIFIERS & OSCILLATORS: Decibels and Half power points, Single Stage CE Amplifier and Capacitor coupled two stage CE amplifier(Qualitative discussions only), Series voltage negative feedback and Additional effects of Negative feed back(Qualitative discussions only), The Barkhausen Criterion for Oscillations, BJT RC phase shift oscillator, Hartley ,Colpitts and crystal oscillator ( Qualitative discussions only) Numerical problems as applicable.

(T1 - 8.2, 12.1, 12.3, 13.1, 13.7; R1-17.15, 17.16, 17.17, 17.18, 17.19)                                

                                                                                                             06 Hours

Unit-VI

INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS: Ideal OPAMP, Saturable property of an OP AMP inverting and non inverting OPAMP circuits, need for OPAMP, Characteristics and applications - voltage follower, addition, subtraction, integration, differentiation; Numerical examples as applicable Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO)

 (T2 -11.1-11.8, 9.6)                                                                                                            

                                                                                                             06 Hours

Unit-VII

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: Block diagram, Modulation, Radio Systems, Superhetrodyne Receivers, Numerical examples as applicable (T2 - 13.1, 13.2, 13.4, 13.5)

NUMBER SYSTEMS: Introduction, decimal system, Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal number systems, addition and subtraction, fractional number, Binary Coded Decimal numbers.                                                                        

                                                                                                            07 Hours

Unit-VIII

DIGITAL LOGIC:, Boolean algebra, Logic gates, Half-adder, Full-adder, Parallel Binary adder.

(For Number Systems & Digital Logic: T2:.14.1 to 14.14)

                                                                                                            07 Hours

TEXTBOOKS:

1. (T1) Electronic Devices and Circuits: David. A. Bell; PHI, New Delhi,

     2004

2. (T2) Electrical and Electronics & Computer Engineering for Scientists and

    Engineers Second Edition -K.A. Krishnamurthy & M.R. Raghuveer- New  

    Age International Publishers (Willey Eastern) 2001

REFERENCEBOOKS:

1. (R1). Electronic Devices and Circuits: Jacob Millman, Christos C. Halkias

     TMH, 1991 Reprint 2001

2. (R2) Electronic Communication Systems, George Kennedy, TMH 4th      

      Edition

3. (R3) Digital Logic and Computer Design, Morris Mano, PHI, EEE

Question Paper Pattern: Student should answer FIVE full questions out of 8 questions to be set each carrying 20 marks, selecting at least TWO questions from each part.

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