SEMESTER VII

Sr. Subjects No. of Periods per Week Duration Marks

No. Lectures Practicals Tutorials of Theory Theory Term Practical Oral Total
Paper Paper Work
(Hrs)
1. Basics of VLSI 4 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
Instrumentation
2. 3 2 - 3 100 25 - - 125
Systems
# Digital
3. 3 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
Communication
Filter Theory and
4. 4 2 - 3 100 25 - - 125
Applications
5. Elective –I 4 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
6. Project –A - - 4 - - 25 - - 25
Total 18 10 4 - 500 150 - 75 725

# Subject common with Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering branch.

Elective I
Image Processing
Process Control & Instrumentation
Microcomputer System Design
DSP Architectures and Systems
Wireless Communication

SEMESTER VIII
Sr. Subjects No. of Periods per Week Duration Marks
No. Lectures Practicals Tutorials of Theory Theory Term Practical Oral Total
Paper Paper Work
(Hrs)
1. Power Electronics. 4 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
Data
2. Communication & 4 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
Networking
3. Mechatronics 4 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
4. Elective –II 4 2 - 3 100 25 - 25 150
5. Project –B - 8 - - - 50 - 50 100
Total 16 16 - - 400 150 - 150 700

Elective II
Group size should be restricted to minimum 2
Advanced Digital Signal Processing
students and maximum 5 students for projects.
Biomedical Instrumentation
Embedded Systems and Real Time Programming
*Robotics
Telecom Network Management
VLSI Design

* Subject common with Electrical Engg. Branch.

 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Basics of VLSI

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks

Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks

Rationale: This subject shall foundation for understanding the intricacies of very
large scale integrated circuits and analyzing these circuits. The knowledge gained shall
be useful for further elective on designing with VLSI circuits

DETAILED SYLLABUS
Physics of FET
NMOS, PMOS, enhancement and depletion mode transistor, MOSFET, threshold
voltage, flatband condition, threshold adjustment, linear and saturated operation,
FET capacitance, mobility saturation, thermal variation, short channel and hot
electron effect

Silicon semiconductor technology

Wafer processing, mask generation, oxidation, epitaxy ion implantation, diffusion,
metalization, basic NMOS and PMOS processes. Process simulation using CAD
tools.

Scaling
Scaling of MOS circuits, type of scaling, functional limitations of scaling, scaling of
wires and interconnects

Design rules and layout

Purpose of design rules, NMOS and CMOS design rules and layout, Design of
NMOS and CMOS inverters, NAND and NOR gates. Interlayer contacts, butting
and buried contacts, stick diagrams, layout of integrated circuits, use of layout
tools like MAGIC for integrated circuits.

MOS Inverters
MOSFET aspect and inverter ratio, Enhancement VS Depletion mode pull ups,
standard CMOS inverter, transit time and switching speed of NMOS and CMOS
inverters, NMOS and CMOS gates, transistor sizing and power dissipation, noise
margin calculations, SPICE models and circuit simulation using PSPICE.

D Design of basic VLSI circuits

Design of circuits like multiplexer, decoder, priority encoder, Flip flops, shift
registers using MOS circuits
Design Methodologies
Design analysis and simulation, design verification, design implementation, design
synthesis, validation and testing of manufactured circuits.
BOOKS
Text Books:
E. D. Fabricus, Introduction to VLSI design, McGraw Hill Publications, first
edition, 1990
Neil H.E. Weste, Kamran Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSIDesign: A
Systems Perspective, second edition, Addison Wesley Publications, 1993
Rabaey Jan M., Chandrakasan Anantha, Nikolic Borivoje, Digital Integrated
Circuits: A Desiqn Perspective, second edition, Prentice Hall of India

TERM WORK

The Term work shall consist of at least four computer programs and atleast six
assignments covering the whole syllabus, duly recorded and graded. This will
carry a weightage of fifteen marks. A term work test shall be conducted with a
weightage of 10 marks.

ORAL EXAMINATION

An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.

 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII
SUBJECT: Instrumentation Systems

Lectures: 3 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks

Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Rationale: The art of measurement plays an important role in all branches of
engineering & science. With the advancement of technology, measurement
techniques have taken rapid strides during recent year with-the introduction of
different types of instrumentation devices. The aim is to bring these developments
together.

DETAILED SYLLABUS
Fundamental Concept Of Measurement & Performance Characteristics
of An Instrumentation System
System Configuration-Block diagram of a generalized measurement system,
*Generalized measurements- Transfer function representation & sinusoidal
Transfer function.
*Zero order system
*First order system- Response of a system to Step, Ramp, Impulse input
&Frequency response.
*Second order system - Response of the system to Step, Ramp input & Frequency
response of. Second order system.
*Dead time element.
*Dynamic response of measurement systems.

Transducers
* Classification and Requirements.
* Displacement
principle of transducers, potentiometric displacement transducer, LV.D.T, Variable
capacitance transducer, Hall effect- angular displacement transducer, Digital
transducer.
*Strain
Types of Strain gauge, theory of operation of resistance strain gauge, types of
electrical strain gauge, Materials' for strain gauge, Gauging techniques, Strain
gauge circuits, Temperature compensation, Application.
*Vibration-
Vibration sensing Devices- Velocity transducer, Bonded Strain Gauge
Accelerometer, Piezoelectric Accelerometer, servo Accelerometer, Digital
Accelerometer.
*Signal conditioners for vibration transducer output.
-voltage amplifier, Charge amplifier.
*Application.
Temperature -
*Classification of temperature sensors
*Resistance type temperature sensor, Platinum resistance thermometer. * * *
* Thermister.
*Thermocouples- Properties, Material used for construction, Reference junction
compensation, Thermocouple output linearizing circuits. .
*Temperature measurement by radiation method - Optical pyrometer.
* Solid state transducer.
Pressure -
Diaphagrams, capsule, Bourdon tube, Bellows, Variable reluctance type,
Variable capacitance type, Thin film pressure transducer, Digital pressure
transducer, Piezo electric transducer.
Force And Torque-
Different types of load cell configuration, Effect of temp. Variation, Dynamic
response of elastic transducer, Digital force transducer. .
Torque Measurement- Absorption type, Transmission type, Stress type, and
Deflection type.
Flow -
Classification of flow meter, Head type flow meter, Electromagnetic type,
Rotameter, Anemometer, Ultrasonic flow meter.
Photo Electric Transducer -
The photo multiplier tube, Photo conducive cell, Photo- Voltaic cell,
Semiconductor photo diode, Photo transducer.

Data Acquisition
Generalized data acquisition system, Multi-channel DAS, Data logger, PC based
data acquisition System, Concept of Virtual Instrumentation.
BOOKS
Text Books:
1. Rangan, Sharma &Mani, Instrumentation Devices and Systems, Tata McGraw
Hill, second edition
Additional Reading:
1. Doebelin E .0., Measurement systems - Applications and Design, fourth
edition, Tata McGraw Hill, fourth edition, 1990.
2. Jones and Electronic Instruments and Measurements, John Willey and
Sons, 1987. .
3. Nakra and Chaudhary, Instrument, Measurement and Analysis, Tata ,
McGraw Hill, second edition, 2003
4. Neubert H. K., Instrument Transducers, Oxford University press, Second
edition
TERM WORK

1. Term work shall consist of at least eight practicals covering the topics of the
syllabus
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks
B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Digital Communication

Lectures: 3 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks

Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks
Rationale: The increase in demand for data translT1lssion coupled with the
availability of wideband communication channels and sophisticated integrated
circuits have led to the development of efficient and reliable digital communication.

DETAILED SYLLABUS
Random variables
Review of probability theory, communications examples, Random variables,
probability Distribution function, probability density function, joint cumulative
distribution and probability density, average value and variance of a random
variable, The error function, The Gaussian probability density The Rayleigh
probability density, The central limit theorem.

Information Theory
Discrete messages, the concept of amount of Information, Entropy, Information
rate, coding to increase Average Information per bit - Huffman coding, Lempel Ziv
coding Shannon's Theorem, Channel capacity, capacity of a Gaussian channel,
Bandwidth – S/N trade - off.

Error control coding

Rationale for coding and types of codes, Discrete memoryless chanriel , some
Algebraic concepts - code efficiency and Hamming bound, linear block codes,
Cyclic codes, Convolutional codes, maximum likelihood decoding of
convolutional codes.

Baseband shaping for data transmission

Discrete PAM signals, Power spectra of discrete PAM signals, Intersymbol
Interference, Nyquist's criteria for distortion less baseband, Binary transmission,
correlative coding eyepattern , Baseband M - ary PAM systems.

Baseband Detection
Correlation receiver, Matched filter receiver, Detection of signals with unknown
phase In noise, Equalization concepts [no algorithms expected], Tapped - Delay
Lines equalization, liner predictive vocoders.

Digital Modulation techniques

Digital Modulation formats, coherent binary modulation techniques, coherent
quadrature modulation techniques, Noncoherent binary modulation techniques,
Comparison of binary a nd quaternary modulation techniques, M - ary modulation,
Power spectra, Bandwidth efficiency, Applications of digital modulation
techniques.

Spread spectrum modulation

Pseudo - noise sequences, Baseband spread spectrum system, OS - BPSK,
processing gain, Probability of error, Jamming Margin, Frequency - Hop spread
spectrum, Applications.

BOOKS
Text Books:
1. Simon Haykin; Digital communication John Wiley and sons [Topics 3,4,5,6,7]
2. Taub and Schilling - Principles of communication system - Tata McGraw Hill,
second edition
Additional Reading:
1. John G. Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw Hill
2. Bernad Shlar, Digital Communication, Pearson Education
3. K Sam Shanmugam - Digital and Analog Communication systems, John Wiley
and sons.
4. Lathi B.P., Modern Digital and Analog communications systems - PRISM
Indian edition

TERM WORK
1. Term work shall consist of at least eight practicals covering the topics of the
syllabus
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage o f 10 marks
ORAL EXAMINATION

An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.

 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII
SUBJECT: Filter Theory and applications

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks

Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Rationale: Digital Filters are wildly used today in many diverse application areas.
Naturally filter design techniques play vital role in DSP applications. Some of these
techniques are based on analog domain designing. It is therefore necessary to know
different analog & digital filter designing concepts.

DETAILED SYLLABUS
Filter Analysis in frequency domain
• Review of Frequency response of IIR filter
• Linear Phase FIR Systems
• Condition for Linear Phase.
• Magnitude& phase response for Four types of Linear Phase systems
• Location of zeros

Analog filter designing techniques

• The design process
• The Butterworth filter
• The Chebyshev approximation
• The elliptic approximation
• The Bessel function

IIR Digital filter Design

• Methodology, Analog & Digital domain mapping, Spectral transformations
• Impulse - Invariance Method
• Bilinear transform technique
• Matched Z- Transform technique
• Intuitive approaches

FIR FIR Digital filter Design

• FIR versus IIR filters
• Window-based Design of different types of filters
§ Gibb's Phenomenon
§ Design Using Different Windows
 • Use of Kaiser Window
• Half-Band FIR filters
• Frequency sampling technique
• Design of optimal linear phase FIR filters
• Structures for implementation of filters

Quantization Effects
• Quantization methods
• Limit cycle oscillations due to Quantization
• Errors in frequency response due to coefficient Quantization
BOOKS
Text Books:
1. A. Antoniou, Digital Filters: Analysis Design and Applications, Tata McGraw
Hill, Publication, 2001
2. Ashok Ambardar, Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Thomson Learning
Publication, second edition, 2001
Additional Reading:
1. T. J. Cavicchi, Digital Signal Processing, Wiley Publication, 2002
2. S.K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing, Tata McGraw-Hill Publication,2001

TERM WORK

1. Term work shall consist of at least six software programs written in C /

MATLAB and two assignments covering the topics of the syllabus.
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks
 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Elective - I, Image Processing

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks
Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks
Rationale: Image processing has grown considerably due to fast computational
systems. Many important real life applications in diverse fields are therefore
possible. This first course in image processing shall teach basic concepts in the
subject.

DETAILED SYLLABUS

Digital image processing systems

Image acquisition, storage, processing, communication and display.
Visual perception
Structure of human eye, image formation in the human eye, brightness, adaptation
and discrimination.
Image model
Uniform and non-uniform sampling and quantization.
Discrete 2-D linear processing
Superposition and convolution, unitary transforms, linear processing techniques.
Image transforms
2-D DFT / FFT, Walsh, Hadamard Transforms, Discrete Cosine and Sine transforms,
Haar Transform, Slant Transform, Hotelling Transform.
Image enhancement
Contrast manipulation, Histogram modification, noise cleaning, edge sharpening,
frequency domain methods like low-pass and high-pass filtering, homomorphic
filtering.
Image segmentation
Detection of discontinuity, point line and edge detection, edge linking and boundary
detection, thresholding, image interpretation.
Image Compression
Coding redundancy. Psycho-visual redundancy. Fidelity criteria, MSE,
fundamental coding theorem. Error -free compression, variable length coding .bit
plane coding. Loss- less predictive coding. Lossy predictive coding, Transform
coding, DPCM, OM, ADM.
BOOKS
Text Books:
1. W. Pratt, Digital Image Processing, Wiley Publication, third edition,2002
2. Gonzalez & Woods, Digital Image Processing, Pearson Education, Second edition
3. A.K. Jain, Fundamentals of Image processing; Prentice Hall of India Publication, 1995
Additional Reading:

TERM WORK

1. Term work shall consist of at least six software programs written in C /

MATLAB and two assignments covering the topics of the syllabus.
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks

ORAL EXAMINATION
An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.
 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Elective - I, Process Control Instrumentation

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks
Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks
Rationale:

DETAILED SYLLABUS

Introduction to Process Control, Feedback Control, Types of Processes,

Performance Characteristics of measuring systems.

Measurement methods of different process parameters like pressure, force,

torque, velocity, acceleration (Review).

Fluid flow measurement methods - Measurement of fluid dnsity, viscosity,

specific gravity, pH, humidity and liquid level.

Controllers - Modes of control like ON/OFF, proportional, derivative, interal,

PO, PI & PID controllers. Selection of a proper control mode for a given
process, Pneumatic control mechanisms, electronic controllers, Electronic and
Pneumatic signal transmission.

Control valves like globe, pinch, butterfly ball valve etc., characteristics of
valves, cavitation and flashing, selection of control valves for a process, valve
sequencing.

Introduction to PLC, PLC ladder logic, drawing of ladder diagrams,

Programming of PLC.

Generalized data acquisition and data distribution systems, Multichannel DAS,

Data Logger.
BOOKS
Text Books:
1. Anderson N.A., Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control, third
edition, Chilton Company, 1980.
2. Johnson C., Process Control Instrumentation Technology, fourth edition,
Prentice Hall of India, 2001.
Additional Reading:
1. Dunning Gary, Introduction to Programmable I.,.ogic Controllers, Delmar-
Thomson Learning, 2001.
2 Patranabis D, Principles of Process Control, Tata McGraw Hill, second
edition, 2001
TERM WORK
1. Term work shall consist of at least 10 practicals and two assignments
covering the topics of the syllabus.
2. A term work test sha ll be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks
ORAL EXAMINATION

An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.

 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Elective - I, Microcomputer System Design

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks
Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks
Rationale: A Microcomputer system is made of different components. This
subject shall teach the functional units of these components and how to make them
work together in a microcomputer system

DETAILED SYLLABUS

The Pentium Processor

Functional units of Pentium processor. Overview of cache operation and cache types.
Pentium cache overview. Pentium signals interface. Address bus, data bus,
misaligned transfers, Communications with 8,16,32 and 64 Bit devices, bus control
signals, bus master signals, System test and initialization. System management
tools. Reliability and error reporting.

Code cache and Instruction pipeline. Introduction to the prefetcher, Instruction branch
prediction, code cache organization and operation, the floating point pipeline...'
The data cache and burst bus cycles. Introduction to internal data cache, structure of
internal data cache, the bus cycle state machine, anatomy of write hit and miss,
inquire cycles. Bus cycle overview, burst cycles, single transfer bus cycle pipelined
and non pipelined, special cycles.

Interrupt acknowledge bus cycle, bus cycle state machine, bu$ and bus state
transition.

PCI Bus
Local Bus concept. Introduction to PCI Bus operation; Introduction to Reflected wave
switching; PCI Bus functional signal groups. PCI Bus Arbitration, Arbiter, Arbitration
algorithms, hidden bus arbitration, example of arbitration between two masters, bus
access latency, PCI read and write transfers, PCI I/O addressing, Interrupt
acknowledge. Interrupt routing, Interrupt chaining.

Peripheral Bus Interfaces

The IDE interface, timing specifications, IDE protocol, Model of an IDE Disk Drive.
SCSI Bus. SCSI hardware. SCSI Bus Protocol.
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Introduction to USB, PC requirements, Btls topology, understanding the host and the
peripheral, the development process. USB transfer basics, Elements of a transfer,
successful transfers. Transfer types, Control transfer, Bulk transfer,
Interrupt transfer, 'Isochronous transfer, time critical transfers.
BOOKS
Text Books:
1. Tom Shanley et al, Pentium Processor System Architecture, Addison Wesley
Press
2. Tom Shanley et al, PCI System Architecture, Addison Wesley Press
3. F. Schmidt, SCSI Bus and IDE Interface, Addison Wesley Press
4 Jan Axelson, USB Complete, Penram Publication, second edition
Additional Reading:

TERM WORK
1. Term work shall consist of at least 4 practicals and six assignments
covering the topics of the syllabus.
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks
ORAL EXAMINATION
An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.
 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Elective - I, DSP Architectures & Systems

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks
Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks
Rationale: Digital Signal Processing has applications in many fields. The DSP
algorithms are better implemented on DSP processors having specially tailored
architectures. It is therefore essential for a DSP systems designer to understand
these processors and apply them in system design.

DETAILED SYLLABUS

Introduction to Programmable Digital Signal Processors

TMS 320C5X
Architecture
Assembly language instructions
Pipelining
Applications
TMS 320C54X
Architecture
Assembly language instructions
Pipelining
Applications
An Overview of TMS 320C6X
An Overview of TMS 320C6X
An Overview of Motorola DSP 563XX Processors
BOOKS
Text Books:
1. B. Venkataramani and Bhaskar, Digital Signal Processors: Architecture,
Programming & Applications, Tata McGraw- Hill Publication, 2002.
Additional Reading:
1. A. Bateman & W Yates, Digital Signal Processing Design Wheeler Publication,
1988
TERM WORK
1. Term work shall consist of at least six practicals on actual DSP processors
and two assignments covering the topics of the syllabus.
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks
ORAL EXAMINATION
An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.
 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Elective - I, Wireless Communication

Lectures: 4 Hrs per week Theory: 100 Marks
Practical: 2 Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Oral: 25 Marks
Rationale: Rapid increase in the numbers of mobile subscribers and use of mobile
networks for multimedia transmission has made wireless technology the most rapidly
evolving field in telecommunications. This subject teaches the basics of wireless
communication.
DETAILED SYLLABUS

Introduction
Introduction to wireless communication systems.

The cellular concept

Frequency reuse, Hand - off strategies, Interference and system capacity, Tracking
and grade of service, 'Improving coverage and capacity in cellular systems.

Mobile Radio propagation

Large scale path loss: Reflection, Ground reflection (2 ray model), Diffraction,
Scattering, Practical Link Budget - Design using path loss models.
Small scale fading and multipath: Small scale multipath propagation, Parameters of
Mobile Multipath channels, Types of small scale fading, Rayleigh and Riceaw
Distributions.
Diversity Techniques:

Wireless systems and standards

Analog Cellular systems: AMPS and ET ACS - System overview, cell Handling, Air
Interface, N - AMPS
Digital cellular system: GSM - Services and Features, system architecture, Radio
subsystem channel types, frame structure, signal Processing, Typical call Flow
sequences in GSM. COMA Digital cellular standard - Frequency and channel
specifications, forward COMA channel, Reverse standard channel.
Cordless Telephones: CT 2 , Standard, OECT, PACS (Personal access
Communication system), PHS (Personal Handy phone system)
Mobile Data Communications
Specialized packet and mobile Radio Networks, Circuit switched Data services on
Cellular Networks, Packet switched Data services on cellular Networks, Data over
low power wireless and cordless Networks.

BOOKS
Text Books:
1. Theodre S Rappaport: Wireless Communication - Pearson Education, second
edition.
2. Raj Pandya, Mobile and Personal Communication System and Services,
Prentice Hall of India

Additional Reading:
1. David J. Goddman, Wireless Personal Communication Systems, Addison
Wesley publication. "
2. Joachim Tesal, GSM cellular Radio, John Wiley publication.
TERM WORK
1. Term work shall consist of at least 8 practicals / assignments covering the
topics of the syllabus.
2. A term work test shall be conducted with a weightage of 10 marks
ORAL EXAMINATION
An oral examination is to be conducted based on the above syllabus.
 B.E. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
FOURTH YEAR semester VII

SUBJECT: Project - A
Lectures: - Hrs per week Term Work: 25 Marks
Practical: 4 Hrs per week

Rationale: Project allows the student to work independently to put the knowledge of
electronics engineering theory into practice.

DETAILED SYLLABUS

The students of Electronics Engineering degree course are expected to take up a

project under the guidance of a teacher in the institute, on any Electronics
Engineering problem, to be completed in the Semester VII and Semester VIII.
This may include:
- Experimental analysis! verification,
- Development of design methods and verification,
- Design and fabrication of models,
- Developing software. for analysis and/or design or decision making
- Developing a mathematical! empirical model.
The students shall work in group with no more than five students in each group.

Basic study through review of literature on the topic selected shall be completed.
The scope of the project, identification of necessary data, sources of such data etc.
shall be identified. The student group has to prepare a brief report on the work done.
The report should include objective of the project, scope of the project,
Methodology and the review of literature

TERM WORK
Term work should consist of the above mentioned activities which shall be
evaluated and shall carry a weightage of 25 marks