Electronics & Communications

1. Network Theory
1. Explain trees, co-trees and loops?
2. What are incidence matrices?
3. State and explain Kirchoffs laws?
4. Explain Thevenin’s theorem with an example?
5. Explain Norton’s theorem with an example?
6. Explain maximum power transfer theorem?
7. What are hybrid and inverse hybrid parameters?
8. Explain T type and Π type filter?
2. Electrical Technology
1. What are the various losses in a DC generator?
2. What is commutation? Explain the various commutation methods?
3. Explain the different motor characteristics?
4. Explain elementary theory of transformer?
5. Derive EMF equation of a transformer?
6. Draw vector diagram of a transformer and explain?
7. Draw the equivalent circuit of a transformer?
8. What is an auto transformer? Explain?
3. Electronic circuits –II
1. What is a zener diode? How is it used as a voltage stabilizer?
2. Explain the working of a JFET?
3. Explain JFET biasing? Derive expression for voltage gain of JFET amplifier?
4. What is CB configuration of a transformer? Explain the characteristics of CB
configuration?
5. Explain the working of a MOSFET?
6. What is an SCR? Explain the working of an SCR?
7. Explain the working of an SCR as a switch and as a half wave rectifier?
8. What are the applications of an SCR?
4 Power Electronics
1. Explain the static IV characteristics of a thyristor?
2. Which are the various thyristor triggering methods?
3. Explain switching characteristics of a thyristor?
4. Explain thyristor protection scheme?
5. Explain the working of a semi-converter?
6. Explain 3d half wave converter with R load?
7. Explain different types of chopper circuits?
8. Explain the working of a UPS?
5. Digital communication Techniques
1. Compare analog and digital communication?
2. Explain CDF and PDF?
3. Explain PCM?
4. What are the advantages of delta modulation? What is adaptive delta modulation?
5. Explain inter symbol interference?
6. With block diagram explain the generation and detection of DPSK?
7. Explain Sampling theorem?
8. What is PAM?
6. Electronic Instrumentation
1. What is a resistive transducer? Explain the working of a resistive transducer?
2. What are thermo electric couplers? Explain the working of thermo electric
couplers?
3. Explain the working of LVDT?
4. How is Wheatstone bridge used to measure resistance?
5. What is a recorder? Explain strip chart recorder?
6. Explain galvanometer type recorder?
7. Compare X-Y recorder and X-Y plotter?
8. What is a resistance thermometer?
7. Control Systems
1. Explain mechanical translational system? Explain the various steps to determine
the transfer function of a mechanical translational system?
2. Derive an expression for the transfer function of a field controlled transformer?
3. What are the steps for block diagram reduction?
 4. Explain signal flow graph? Explain the procedure to convert block diagram into
signal flow graph?
5. Derive expression for the frequency response of an undamped and under damped?
6. Explain the effect of P, PI, PD and PID controller in feed back control system?
7. Derive resonance of a second order system?
8. Explain polar plot? How is gain and phase margin determined from polar plot?
8. Television Engineering
1. With a neat diagram explain the components of a composite video signal?
2. Explain the working of an image orthicon camera tube?
3. Explain the working of plumbicon?
4. Compare MATV and CATV?
5. What are the features of direct coupled video amplifier?
6. Explain the working of delta gun?
7. Explain PAL colour television system?
8. Explain SECAM?
9 Digital Signal processing
1. What are the properties of Fourier transform?
2. Derive expression for the frequency response of a first order and second order
system?
3. What are the properties of DFT?
4. What is linear convolution? What are the properties of linear convolution?
5. Explain DIF?
6. Derive expression for the frequency response of linear phase FIR filter?
7. Write short notes on
a. Rectangular window
b. Triangular window
c. Raised cosine window
8. Explain the design of a low pass Butterworth filter?
0 Solid state devices
1. What are an N-type and a P-type semiconductor?
 2. Draw and explain the V-I characteristics of a PN junction diode? Explain break
down and knee voltage?
3. How can a diode be used as a
a. Center tap full wave rectifier
b. Full wave bridge rectifier?
4. What is CB configuration of a transformer? Explain the characteristics of CB
configuration?
5. Explain the working of a MOSFET?
6. What is an SCR? Explain the working of an SCR?
7. Explain the working of an SCR as a switch and as a half wave rectifier?
8. What are the applications of an SCR?
1 Electronic circuits –I
1. Explain the working of a full wave rectifier using center tap transformer?
2. Explain filter circuits?
3. What is CC amplifier?
4. Explain RC coupled amplifier? Derive an expression for the frequency response
of an RC coupled amplifier?
5. Draw and explain the working of an astable multi vibrator?
6. Explain various triggering methods for bistable multivibrator?
7. Explain with neat diagram
a. Miller sweep circuit
b. Bootstrap time base generator
8. Explain current sweep generator circuit?
2 Digital Electronics and Logic Design
1. Explain adder circuits?
2. What is a binary subtractor?
3. What is PLA?
4. What is Boolean algebra? State De-Morgan’s law?
5. What are clocked flip flops?
6. Explain digital to analog conversion? How is it accomplished using R-2R ladder?
7. Explain the different types of memories?
 8. What is a multiplexer? Explain the design of a multiplexer?
13 Applied Electromagnetic Theory
1. What is divergence? State and prove divergence theorem?
2. Explain Stokes theorem?
3. State and prove Gauss’s law?
4. Obtain electric field density for an infinite charge?
5. Differentiate between convection and conduction curve?
6. Explain displacement current and displacement current density?
7. State and prove Pointing theorem?
8. Explain wave propagation in lossy detection?
14 Computer organization and Architecture
1. Explain the various steps in instruction execution? What is straight line instruction
sequencing?
2. What are interrupts? Explain the interrupt organization?
3. What is DMA?
4. Draw and explain the internal organization of a semiconductor memory chip?
5. What is a mapping function? Different types of mapping function?
6. Illustrate with an example how memory interleaving improves efficiency?
7. Explain the multiplication of positive numbers?
8. Explain with an example Booths algorithm for signed operand multiplication?
15 Linear integrated circuits
1. Explain open loop op amp configuration?
2. What is a voltage series feed back amplifier?
3. Explain how inverting and non-inverting configurations are used as summing,
scaling and averaging amplifier?
4. Explain the working of an integrator?
5. What is a differentiator? Explain its working?
6. What is a filter? Explain the different types of filter? With a neat diagram explain
the frequency response of a filter?
7. What is a band pass filter? Explain the different types of band pass filters?
8. What is an oscillator? Explain the working of an oscillator?
16 Microprocessors and Microcontrollers
1. Draw the architecture of 8085 and explain the various blocks?
2. Which are the various addressing modes of 8085? Explain each with examples?
3. What is a microcontroller?
4. Draw the block diagram and pin diagram of 8051 microcontroller?
5. Explain the register set of 8051?
6. Explain how memory and I/O are addressed in 8051?
7. Explain the instruction set of 8051?
8. Draw and explain the architecture of 80196 microcontroller?
17 Industrial Management and Economics
1. What are the different types of ownerships?
2. What is a joint stock company? Which are the different types of joint stock
companies?
3. Give the definition and characteristics of management?
4. Explain neo-classical theory? Which are the other modern management theories?
5. What is financial management? What are the functions of a financial manager?
6. Explain productivity improvement procedure?
7. What is productivity? How is it measured?
8. Explain economic order quantity (EOQ)?
18 Microcontroller based system design
1. Draw the architecture of 8085 and explain the various blocks?
2. Draw 8085 programming model and explain each block?
3. How do prefetch queues and interleaving techniques improve the performance of
modern microprocessors?
4. Explain the different types of instructions?
5. Draw the architecture and signal description of 8087?
6. Draw the architecture of a CRT controller and explain?
7. What are the various interconnection topologies?
8. Explain the design of a PC based multi microprocessor system?
19 Microwave and Radar Engineering
1. Derive Maxwell’s equations?
 2. Explain the propagation of TM and TEM waves?
3. Explain the various modes in rectangular waveguide?
4. What is a microwave T junction? What are the different types of T junction?
5. Explain with a neat diagram 2 cavity klystron amplifier?
6. What are tunnels? Explain the voltage ampere characteristics of a tunnel?
7. What is IMPATT diode? Explain the working with neat diagram?
8. Explain microwave communication system?
20 Computer Networks
1. Differentiate between LAN & MAN?
2. Distinguish between connection oriented and connectionless services?
3. Explain TCP/IP reference model?
4. Explain sliding window protocol?
5. Explain routing? Different types of routing?
6. Distinguish between ports and sockets?
7. Explain TCP?
8. Explain CYC and parity checking?