THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

DIPLOMA IN TECHNOLOGY LEVEL 3

ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014
ASSIGNMENT #03
MEX3272 APPLIED ELECTRONICS

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Answer all questions.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering (Research Laboratory), The Open University
of Sri Lanka,Nawala.
THE COURSE COORDINATOR IN MEX3272
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA
P.O. BOX 21, NAWALA
NUGEGODA.

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Last date of submission 05.06.2014

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Question 01:
Briefly explain the followings
a) Silicon Controlled Rectifier(SCR)
b) Triac
c) Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT)
d) Shift registers
e) Sample and Hold circuitry
Question 02:
a) Draw a complete logic circuit of half adder and explain the operation of it.
b) Design a circuit to add a 2-bit binary number to another 2-bit binary number
(eg:- 01 + 01 = 10 , 11+01 =100) and explain the operation of it.
c) Design an asynchronous counter with modulus of eleven (MOD 11) with a regular
binary
sequence
0000,0001,0010,0011,0100,0101,0110,0111,1000,1001,1010,1011
( use J-K flip-flops)

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Question 03:
a) Design a circuit to eliminate contact bounce of a mechanical switch shown in
Figure Q3(a). (Use a suitable latch.)

Figure Q3 (a)

b) Following inputs(S,R,EN) are given to a gated S-R latch that is initially RESET.
Determine the Q output waveform.

Figure Q3 (b)
c) Design a synchronous counter using J-K flip-flops with the irregular binary count
sequence 001,010,111,101 , including state diagram, present statenext state table,
transition table for J-K flip-flop, Karnaugh maps, logic expressions for all J and K inputs
and circuit diagram.
Question 04:
a) A computer provide control signals(digital signal) via DAC (digital to analog converter)
to control speed of a motor. Output of the DAC ( analog current 0 - 2mA ) is amplified and
it produce motor speed from 0 to 1000rpm. Computer should be able to produce a motor
speed which is within 2 rpm of the desired speed. ( step size no greater than 2 rpm).How
many bits required as the inputs of DAC.

Figure Q4 (a)
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b) Find the output voltage for the R-2R DAC of Figure Q4(b). The digital input is 1102
( VRef= 5V dc , R= 15k, 2R= 30k, RF= 15k , Find currents I0, I1, I2 and use formula
V0 = - ITRF )

Figure Q4 (b)
c) Determine the followings for the ADC shown in Figure Q4(c).
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Resolution of the ADC
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Digital equivalent obtained for analog input VA = 2.628V
iii.
Conversion time
(clock frequency = 1 MHz, Threshold voltage VT =0.1mV , DAC full scale output 10.23V ,
DAC input 10 bits)

Figure Q4 (c)
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