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SEMESTER VI

EC1351 – MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION

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UNIT I BASIC MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS 9
Measurement systems – Static and dynamic characteristics – Units and standards of measurements – Error analysis – Moving coil, moving iron meters – Multimeters – True RMS meters – Bridge measurements – Maxwell – Hay – Schering – Anderson and Wien bridge.

UNIT II BASIC ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS 9
Electronic multimeters – Cathode ray oscilloscopes – Block schematic – Applications –Special oscilloscopes – Q meters – Vector meters – RF voltage and power measurements.

UNIT III SIGNAL GENERATORS AND ANALYZERS 9
Function generators – RF signal generators – Sweep generators – Frequency synthesizer – Wave analyzer – Harmonic distortion analyzer – Spectrum analyzer.

UNIT IV DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS 9
Comparison of analog and digital techniques – Digital voltmeter – Multimeters – Frequency counters – Measurement of frequency and time interval – Extension of frequency range – Measurement errors.

UNIT V DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS AND FIBER OPTIC MEASUREMENTS 9
Elements of a digital data acquisition system – Interfacing of transducers – Multiplexing – Computer controlled instrumentation – IEEE 488 bus – Fiber optic measurements for power and system loss – Optical time domains reflectometer.

Total: 45
TEXT BOOK
1. Helfrick, A.D. and William Cooper, D., “Modern Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques”, PHI, 2003.

REFERENCES
1. Carr, J.J., “Elements of Electronics Instrumentation and Measurement”, Pearson education, 2003.
2. Morris, A.S., “Principles of Measurements and Instrumentation”, 2nd Edition, PHI, 2003.
3. Doebelin, E.O., “Measurement Systems – Application and Design”, TMH, 2004.


EC1352 – DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES
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UNIT I PULSE MODULATION 9
Sampling process – PAM – Other forms of pulse modulation – Bandwidth – Noise trade off – Quantization – PCM – Noise considerations in PCM systems – TDM – Digital multiplexers – Virtues, limitation and modification of PCM – Delta Modulation (DM) – Linear prediction – Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM) – Adaptive Delta Modulation(ADM).

UNIT II BASEBAND PULSE TRANSMISSION 9
Matched filter – Error rate due to noise – Intersymbol interference – Nyquist’s criterion for distortionless base band binary transmission – Correlative level coding – Baseband and M-ary PAM transmission – Adaptive equalization – Eye patterns.

UNIT III PASSBAND DATA TRANSMISSION 9
Introduction – Pass band transmission model – Generation, detection, signal space diagram – Bit error probability and power spectra of BPSK, QPSK, FSK and MSK schemes – Differential phase shift keying – Comparison of digital modulation systems using a single carrier – Carrier and symbol synchronization.

UNIT IV ERROR CONTROL CODING 9
Discrete memoryless channels – Linear block codes – Cyclic codes – Convolutional codes – Maximum likelihood decoding of convolutional codes – Viterbi algorithm – Trellis coded modulation – Turbo codes.

UNIT V SPREAD SPECTRUM MODULATION 9
Pseudo noise sequences – A notion of spread spectrum – Direct sequence spread spectrum with coherent binary phase shift keying – Signal space dimensionality and processing gain – Probability of error – Frequency hop spread spectrum – Maximum length and gold codes.

Total: 45
TEXT BOOK
1. Simon Haykins, “Digital Communication” John Wiley, 4th Edition, 2001.

REFERENCES
1. Proakis, J.G., “Digital Communication”, 3rd Edition, TMH, 1995.
2. Taub and Schilling, “Principles of Digital Communication “, 28th reprint, TMH, 2003.




CS1302 – COMPUTER NETWORKS
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UNIT I DATA COMMUNICATION 8
Components and categories – Types of connections – Topologies – Protocols and standards – ISO / OSI model – Transmission media – Line coding – Modems – RS232 interfacing sequences.

UNIT II DATA LINK LAYER 12
Error – Detection and correction – Parity – LRC – CRC – Hamming code – Flow control and error control – Stop and wait – Go back N ARQ – Selective repeat ARQ – Sliding window techniques – HDLC.
LAN: Ethernet IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.4, and IEEE 802.5 – IEEE 802.11 – FDDI, SONET – Bridges.

UNIT III NETWORK LAYER 10
Routers – Internetworks – Packet switching and datagram approach – IP addressing methods – Subnetting – Routing – Distance vector routing – Link state routing.

UNIT IV TRANSPORT LAYER 8
Duties of transport layer – Multiplexing – Demultiplexing – Sockets – User Datagram Protocol (UDP) – Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) – Congestion control – Quality of Services (QOS) – Integrated services.

UNIT V APPLICATION LAYER 7
Domain Name Space (DNS) – SMTP, FTP, HTTP, WWW – Security – Cryptography.

Total: 45
TEXT BOOKS
1. Foruzan, B.A., “Data communication and Networking”, TMH, 2004.
2. Peterson, L.L. and Davie, P.S., “Computer Networks”, 2nd Edition, Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., 2002.

REFERENCES
1. Tannenbaum, A.S., “Computer Networks”, 4th Edition, PHI, 2003.
2. William Stallings, “Data and Computer Communication”, 6th Edition, Pearson Education, 2000.
3. Kurouse, J.F. and Rouse W., “Computer Networking: A Topdown Approach Featuring”, Pearson Education, 2003.


EC1353 – ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION
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UNIT I ANTENNA FUNDAMENTALS 9
Definitions – Radiation intensity – Directive gain – Directivity – Power gain – Beam width – Band width – Gain and radiation resistance of current element – Half – Wave dipole and folded dipole – Reciprocity principle – Effective length and effective area – Relation Between gain effective length and radiation resistance.
Loop Antennas: Radiation from small loop and its radiation resistance – Radiation from a loop with circumference equal to a wavelength and resultant circular polarization on axis – Helical antenna – Normal mode and axial mode operation.
Antenna Arrays: Expression for electric field from two and three element arrays –Uniform linear array – Method of pattern multiplication – Binomial array – End – Fire array.

UNIT II RADIATION FIELDS OF WIRE ANTENNAS 9
Concept of vector potential – Modification for time varying – Retarded case – Fields associated with Hertzian dipole – Power radiated and radiation resistance of current element – Radiation resistance of elementary dipole with linear current distribution –Radiation from half-wave dipole and quarter – Wave mono-pole – Assumed current distribution for wire antennas – Use of capacity hat and loading coil for short antennas.

UNIT III TRAVELLING WAVE (WIDEBAND) ANTENNAS 9
Loop antenna (elementary treatment only) – Helical antenna – Radiation from a traveling wave on a wire – Analysis of rhombic antenna – Design of rhombic antennas – Yagi-Uda antenna – Log periodic antenna.

UNIT IV APERTURE AND LENS ANTENNAS 9
Radiation from an elemental area of a plane wave (Huygen’s source) – Radiation from the open end of a coaxial line – Radiation from a rectangular aperture treated as an array of Huygen’s source – Equivalence of fields of a slot and complementary dipole – Relation between dipole and slot impedances – Method of feeding slot antennas – Thin slot in an infinite cylinder – Field on the axis of an E-plane sectoral horn – Radiation from circular aperture – Beam width and effective area – Reflector type of antennas (Dish antennas) –Dielectric lens and metal plane lens antennas – Luxemberg lens – Spherical waves and biconical antenna.

UNIT V PROPAGATION 9
The three basic types of propagation – Ground wave, space wave and sky wave propagation.
Sky wave propagation: Structure of the ionosphere – Effective dielectric constant of ionized region – Mechanism of refraction – Refractive index – Critical frequency – Skip distance – Effect of earth’s magnetic field – Energy loss in the ionosphere due to collisions – Maximum usable frequency – Fading and diversity reception.
Space wave propagation: Reflection from ground for vertically and horizontally polarized waves – Reflection characteristics of earth – Resultant of direct and reflected ray at the receiver – Duct propagation.
Ground wave propagation: Attenuation characteristics for ground wave propagation – Calculation of field strength at a distance.
L: 45 T: 15 Total: 60

TEXTBOOK
1. Kraus, J.D. and Ronalatory Marhefka, “Antennas”, TMH Book Company, 2002.

REFERENCES
1. Jordan and Balmain, E. C., “Electro Magnetic Waves and Radiating System”, 1968, Reprint 2003, PHI.
2. Collins, R. E., “Antennas and Radio Propagation”, TMH, 1999.
3. Balanis, “Antenna Theory”, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.


CS1203 – COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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UNIT I BASIC STRUCTURE OF COMPUTERS 10
Functional units – Basic operational concepts, bus structures, software performance –Memory locations and addresses – Memory operations – Instruction and instruction sequencing – Addressing modes – Assembly language – Basic I/O operations – Stacks and queues.

UNIT II ARITHMETIC 8
Addition and subtraction of signed numbers – Design of fast adders – Multiplication of positive numbers – Signed operand multiplication and fast multiplication – Integer division – Floating point numbers and operations.

UNIT III BASIC PROCESSING UNIT 9
Fundamental concepts – Execution of a complete instruction – Multiple bus organization – Hardwired control – Micro-programmed control – Pipelining – Basic concepts – Data hazards – Instruction hazards – Influence on instruction sets – Data path and control consideration – Superscalar operation.

UNIT IV MEMORY SYSTEM 9
Basic concepts – Semiconductor RAM, ROM – Speed, size and cost – Cache memories – Performance consideration – Virtual memory – Memory management requirements –Secondary storage.

UNIT V I/O ORGANIZATION 9
Accessing I/O devices – Interrupts – Direct memory access – Buses – Interface circuits –Standard I/O interfaces (PCI, SCSI, and USB).

L: 45 T: 15 Total: 60

TEXT BOOK
1. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic and Safwat Zaky, “Computer Organization”, 5th Edition, TMH, 2002.

REFERENCES
1. William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture – Designing for Performance”, 6th Edition, Pearson Education, 2003.
2. Patterson, D.A. and Hennessy, J.L., “Computer Organization and Design, the Hardware / Software Interface”, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002 reprint.
3. Hayes, J.P., “Computer Architecture and Organization”, 3rd Edition, TMH, 1998.




EC1354 – VLSI DESIGN
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UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR THEORY AND PROCESS TECHNOLOGY 9
NMOS and PMOS transistors – Threshold voltage – Body effect – Design equations – Second order effects – MOS models and small signal AC characteristics – Basic CMOS technology.

UNIT II INVERTERS AND LOGIC GATES 9
NMOS and CMOS inverters – Stick diagram – Inverter ratio – DC and transient characteristics – Switching times – Super buffers – Driving large capacitance loads – CMOS logic structures – Transmission gates – Static CMOS design – Dynamic CMOS design.

UNIT III CIRCUIT CHARACTERISATION AND PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION 9
Resistance estimation – Capacitance estimation – Inductance – Switching characteristics – Transistor sizing – Power dissipation and design margining – Charge sharing – Scaling.

UNIT IV VLSI SYSTEM COMPONENTS CIRCUITS AND SYSTEM LEVEL HYSICAL DESIGN 9
Multiplexers – Decoders – Comparators – Priority encoders – Shift registers – Arithmetic circuits – Ripple carry adders – Carry look ahead adders – High-speed adders – Multipliers – Physical design – Delay modeling – Cross talk – Floor planning – Power distribution – Clock distribution – Basics of CMOS testing.

UNITV VERILOG HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE 9
Overview of digital design with Verilog HDL – Hierarchical modeling concepts – Modules and port definitions – Gate level modeling– Data flow modeling – Behavioral modeling – Task and functions – Test bench.

Total: 45

TEXT BOOKS
1. Weste, N. H. E. and Kamran Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI Design”, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education Asia, 2000.
2. Uyemura, J. P., “Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems”, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002.

REFERENCES
1. Bhasker, J., “A Verilog HDL Primer”, 2nd Edition, B. S. Publications, 2001.
2. Pucknell, “Basic VLSI Design”, Prentice Hall of India, 1995.
3. Wayne Wolf, “Modern VLSI Design System on Chip”, Pearson Education, 2002.





EC1355 – DIGITAL COMMUNICATION LABORATORY

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LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

a) Antennas Laboratory
1 Radiation pattern of half-wave dipole antenna
2. Radiation pattern of yagi antenna
3. Radiation pattern of loop antenna

b) Analog and Digital Communication Laboratory
4. Characteristics of AM receiver (selectivity and sensitivity)
5. Characteristics of FM receiver (selectivity and sensitivity)
6. Sampling and time division multiplexing
7. Pulse Modulation– PAM / PWM /PPM
8. Pulse Code Modulation
9. Line Coding and Decoding
10. Delta Modulation / Differential Pulse Code Modulation
11. Digital Modulation –ASK, PSK, QPSK, FSK

Total: 45




CS1305 – NETWORKS LABORATORY

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LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

1. PC to PC communication
Parallel communication using 8 bit parallel cable
Serial communication using RS 232C
2. Ethernet LAN protocol
To create scenario and study the performance of CSMA/CD protocol through simulation
3. Token bus and token ring protocols
To create scenario and study the performance of token bus and token ring protocols through simulation
4. Wireless LAN protocols
To create scenario and study the performance of network with CSMA / CA protocol and compare with CSMA/CD protocols.
5. Implementation and study of stop and wait protocol
6. Implementation and study of Go-back–N and selective reject protocols
7. Implementation of distance vector routing algorithm
8. Implementation of Link State Routing Algorithm
9. Implementation of data encryption and decryption
10. Transfer of files from PC to PC using Windows / UNIX socket processing


Total: 45


EC1356 – VLSI DESIGN LABORATORY

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LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

1. Study of simulation using tools.
2. Study of synthesis tools.
3. Place, root and back annotation for FPGAs.
4. Study of development tool for FPGA for schematic entry and Verilog.
5. Design of traffic light controller using Verilog and above tools.
6. Design and simulation of pipelined serial and parallel adder to add/subract 8 number of size, 12 bit each in 2's complement.
7. Design and simulation of back annotated Verilog files for multiplying two signed, 8 bit numbers in 2's complement. Design must be pipelined and completely RTL compliant.
8. Study of FPGA board and testing on board LEDs and switches using Verilog codes.
9. Testing the traffic controller design developed in SI. NO.5 on the FPGA board.
10. Design a real-time clock (2 digits, 7 segments LED displays each for HRS, MTS, and SECS) and demonstrate its working on the FPGA board (an expansion card is required for the displays).


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