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Examination,. November 2014

(2007 Admn~ Onwards)

PT 2K6/2K6 EC 701 : MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

Time: 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 100

PART-A

I. a) Briefly explain MTF.

b) Explain subtractive etching and additive etching with neat diagrams.
c) What is subthreshold condunction ?
d) Explain the VTC of pnedo nMOS inverter.
e) Briefly explain different layers of MOS.
f) Briefly explain MOS capacitor.
g) Why device isolation is required? Explain junction isolation.
h) Briefly explain electron spin transport.

(8x5=40)

PART-B

II. a) Explain three types of photolithographic printing techniques.

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b) With a neat diagram, explain CVD process for Si in detail.

III. a) With proper diagrams explain the process detail of nMOS transistor.

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b) Explain with neat diagram the process sequence of Bi CMOS transistor.

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Examination, November 2014

(2007 Admn~ Onwards)

PT 2K6/2K6 EC 701 : MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

Time: 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 100

PART-A

I. a) Briefly explain MTF.

b) Explain subtractive etching and additive etching with neat diagrams.
c) What is subthreshold condunction ?
d) Explain the VTC of pnedo nMOS inverter.
e) Briefly explain different layers of MOS.
f) Briefly explain MOS capacitor.
g) Why device isolation is required? Explain junction isolation.
h) Briefly explain electron spin transport.

(8x5=40)

PART-B

II. a) Explain three types of photolithographic printing techniques.

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OR
b) With a neat diagram, explain CVD process for Si in detail.

III. a) With proper diagrams explain the process detail of nMOS transistor.

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b) Explain with neat diagram the process sequence of Bi CMOS transistor.

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IV. a) Give the stick diagram of NAND using nMqS and static CMOS design style
with stick diagram and its ckt diagram.

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OR
b) Give the stick diagram and ckt diagram of 2 input XNOR using static nMOS
and CMOS design style.

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V. a) Write short note on :

i) LOCOS.

ii) SMAMI.

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OR

b) Write short notes on:

i) Junction isolation and Trench isolation.
ii) 8allastic nano transistor.

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Examination, November 2014

(2007 Admn. Onwards)

PT 2Ks/2K6 EC 702 : MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

Time: 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 100

Instruction: Answer all questions.

PART -A
I. 1) Explain rectangular cavity resonator and derive the resonant frequency. (8x5=40)
2) Draw various slow wave structures of TWT.
3) What are the different types of directional couplers?
4) Explain the working of isolator.
S) What are the different geometries of microwav.e power transistor and their
figure of merits?

6) Explain with diagram, structure and working of IMPA TT diode.

7) Write short note on wave velocity.

8) Explain k- p diagram.

PART -8
II. Explain the bunching process in a two cavity klystron.

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III. Explain with diagram working of cylindrical magnetron and derive the equations
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for electron motion.

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IV. Derive the S-matrix for a E plane Tee and 4 ~ort circulator.

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V. Explain the basic characteristics of a Magic Tee. Derive the S-matrix for an
ideal matched Magic Tee.
VI. Explain different modes of operation of Gunn diode with neat diagrams.

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OR
VII. Explain with suitable diagrams, the different methods for measuring microwave
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frequency.
VIII. Discuss in detail the term stability with respect to microwave amplifier.

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OR
IX. Explain the low pass to high pass, low pass to band pass and low pass to band
stop filter transformation.
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Examination, November 2014

(2007 Adm". Onwards)

PT2K612K6 EC 703 : INFORMATION THEORY AND CODING

Time: 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 100

Instruction: Answer all questions.

PART-A
Each question carries 5 marks.

I. a) Define self information. Give its units and properties.

b) State and explain channel coding theorem.

c) Define groups. Explain modulo~operations on group elements by taking a

finite group with five elements.

d) What is an irreducible polynomial? Explain with an example.

e) Define G and H matrix. Give its structure for (n, kj linear block codes.

f) Give the characteristics of BCH codes and briefly explain its encoding
principle.
g) Explain the working of a convolution encoder in frequency domain.
h) What is interleaving? Explain the working principle of bit interleavers and
block interleavers.
(8x5::40)
PART-B
Each question carries 15 marks.

II. a) Given a binary source with P (0)

and p (1)

=%. Find the entropy of this

source and of its second extension and hence show that H(S2) = 2 H(S).

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b) Define marginal and jOint entropy. Derive the relationship between, H(Y),
H(X), H(XIV), H(Y/x) and H(X, V).
Verify the above relations for the joint probability matrix given below.

P(X, Y)

x'r

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0.2
0
0.2
0
0.1 0.01 0.01 0.01
0
0.02 0.02
0
0.04 0.04 0.01 0.06
0
0.06 0.02 0.2

OR
III. a) P. T. H(X) ~ [ ~ H(X) + 1 for a discrete memoryless source with entropy
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H(X) and [ is the average code word length.

b) Using Shannon~Fano coding method encode the given source output alphabets
with corresponding probabilities. Find efficiency and redundancy of the code.

Symbols:

p(Xj) :

ABC
0.3,

0.2, 0.15, 0.12, 0.10, 0.07, 0.04,

H
0.02

respectively.

IV. a) Make a mod~7 addition and multiplication table over GF(2).

b) Construct an extended field of GF(2), with 16 entries, using a primitive
polynomial p(X) = 1 + X + X4 over GF (2).

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8

OR
V. a) Check for linear dependency on the following 5-tuples over GF (2).
(10110), (01001) and (11111).

b) If f(X) is a polynomial with coefficients from GF(2). Let ~ be an element in an

extension field of GF(2). Then if ~ is a root of f(X), then for any I ~ 0, show
that ~21 is also a root of f(X).
VI. Consider a systematic (8, 4) code whose parity check equations are

Po :::: u1 + u2 + u3
P1 = Uo + u1 + u2
P2 = Uo + u1 + u3
P3

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where uo u1 u2 and u3 are message digits and Po. P1' P2 and P3 are parity
check digits.
i) Find the generator and parity oheck matrices for this code.
ii) Show that the minimum distance of this code is 4.
iii) Construct an encoder for the above code.
iv) Construct a decoder for the above code.
OR

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VI'. a) i) Construct an encoder circuit for the (7, 4) cyclic code generated by
g(X) = 1 + X + X3.
ii) Construct a 3-stage syndrome circuit with input fed from left end.
iii) For the received vector (001 011 0), find the syndrome bits, with the above

circuit.
iv) With block diagram, explain the working of a Meggit decoder, for the above
encoder.
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VIII. Consider a (3, 1,2) convolution coder with g(1) = (110), g(2) = (101) and
g(3)

= (111);

i) Draw the encoder diagram and explain its working.

ii) Sketch the code tree of this encoder.
iii) Find the codeword corresponding to the information sequence (11101)
using frequency domain approach.
OR
IX. Explain about the following:
i) ML decoding of convolution codes.
ii) Turbo encoder and decoder block diagrams.

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Examination, N'ovember 2014

(2007 Admn. Onwards)

PT 2K6/2K6 EC 704: TELEVISION ENGINEERING

Max. Marks: 100

Time: 3 Hours
PART-A

Answer all questions:

1. Explain about horizontal resolution and vertical resolution in 625-8 TV system.

2. Write the advantages of negative modulation.
3. Draw the block diagram of a colour TV camera tube and explain the working.
4. What is the need of dc restorer circuit in TV transmitter? Explain.
5. What is colour burst? What is the need? Explain.
6. Write the characteristics of PAL system.
7. Explain about HDTV.

8. What is DPCM ? Explain.

(8x5=40)
PART-8

9. What is composite video signal? Also explain how the horizontal retrace period
and vertical retrace period are effectively utilized in 625-8 system and the need
of different pulses.
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10. a) Draw the basic block diagram of a monochrome TV receiver and explain it.
b) What is interlaced scanning? Explain also write the advantages.

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11. a) Draw a PIL tube and explain its different characteristics.

b) Explain about:

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i) Astigmatism
ii) Comma effect
iii) Degaussing.

OR

12. a) With a neat diagram explain the working of plumbicon camera tube.
b) Write the disadvantages of delta gun picture tube.

13. a) Draw the block diagram of a PAL decoder and explain the different blocks.
b) Write the demerits of NTSC system.

6
9

OR
14. a) Why the colour sub carrier frequency is odd multiple of half the line frequency
in NTSC system? Explain.
b) Draw and explain the working of a SECAM coder.

15. What is the need of video compression? Explain the different types.
OR

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16. Explain the following:

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i) Digital TV
ii) DVB

iii) T-Satellite.

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Examination, November 2014

(2007 Admn" Onwards)

PT 2K6/2K6 EC 705 (A) : PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESS

Time: 3 Hours

Max. Marks: 100

1. a) If the events A and B are independent. Show that

b) A continuous random variable X has a pdff(x)
and variance.

A and B are also independent.

=Kx2e-x, x ~ O. Find K, mean

c) A fair die is tossed 720 times. Use Tchebycheff inequality to find a lower
bound for the probability of getting 100 to 140 sixes.
d) The mean and variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and

%respectively.

Find P(X ~ 1).

e) If the jOint pdf of (X, Y) is given by f(x, y)

=24y(1 -

x), O~y~x~ 1 find E(XY).

f) The life time of a certain brand of an electric bulb may be considered a

random variable with mean 1200 h and S.d. 250 h. Find the probability using
central limit theorem, that the average life time of 60 bulbs exceeds 1250 h.
g) A radio active source emits particles of a rate 5 per minute in accordance
with. Poisson process. Each particle emitted has a probability of 0.6 being
recorded. Find the probability that 10 particles are recorded in 4-min. period.
h) Define Markov process, Markov chain.
2. a)

(8x5=40)

i) There are 3 true coins and 1 false coin with 'head' on both sides. A coin is
chosen at random and tossed 4 times. If head occurs all the 4 times, what
is the probability that the false coin has been chosen and used?

ii) If the pdf of a random variable X is given by f(x)

= {~'
L

0,

-2 < x < 2
else where

find p{IXI > 1}.

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i) A continuous random variable has the pdf f(x)

value of K and also

=Kx4 , -1 < x < 0, find the

p( X > -~/X < -X).

ii) There are 2 bags one of which contains 5 red and 8 black balls and the
other 7 red and 10 black balls. A ball is drawn from one or the other of the
2 bags. Find the chance of drawing a red ball.

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3. a) Fit a Poisson distribution for the following distribution :

x:

f :

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OR
b) In a certain examination the percentage of students passing an getting
distinctions were 55 and 9 respectively. Estimate the average marks obtained
by the students, the minimum marks for pass and distinction being 44 and 75
respectively.
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4. a) i) If the random variable X is uniformly distributed in (0, 1) find the pdf of

y=

X +1

ii) If X, Y, Z are uncorrelated random variables with zero mean and standard
deviation 5, 12 and 9 respectively and if U = X + Y and V = Y + Z, find the
correlation co-efficient between U and V.

OR

=x + y, 0 ~ x, y ~

1. Find fxy .
ii) A distribution with unknown mean J.l has variance equal to 1.5. Use central

b) i) If the joint pdf of (X, Y) is given by f(x, y)

limit theorem to find how large a sample ~hould be taken from the
distribution in order that the probability will be at least 0.95 that the sample
mean will be within 0.5 of the population mean.
5. a) Given a random variable Y with characteristic function

<I>

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(w) = E{e iWY } and a

random process defined by X(t) = cos ('A t + Y), show that {X(t)} is stationary
in the wide sense if

<I>

(1)

= <I> (2) = O.

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b) If X(t) = Jl + V(t) where V(t) is a white noise with C(t11 t 2) = <I> (t 1) 0(t1 - t2 )
where <I> (t) is a bounded function oft and 0 is the unit impulse function, prove
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Examination, November 2014

(2007 Admn. Onwards)

PT2K6/2K 6EC 705 (B) : SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

Max. Marks: 100

Time: 3 Hours

PART -A
1. Derive the equation for finding period of a satellite orbit.
2. Explain'Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
3. Explain the single conversion transponder.
4. Write a short note on earth station antennas.
5. Write the importance of guard time 111 TDMA.
6. Briefly explain how FDM-FM-FDMA is implemented in satellite channels.
7. Explain differential GPS.
8. Write a short note on uplink design.

(8xS=40)

PART-B
9. a) Explain the calculation of Azimuth angle and elevation angle.

b) Write a short note on orbital perturbations.

OR

c) Explain the launch vehicle selection factors.

d) Explain the procedures for placing satellites in geostationary orbit.

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10. a) Explain earth station transmitter, receiver and antenna in detail.

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b) Write a short note on telemetry and monitoring system of satellite.

c) Write a short note on reliability of satellite subsystem. Derive the expression

for reliability of a device.

11. a) Briefly explain DAMA..

b) Explain about TDMA implementation in satellite communication.

5
10

OR
c) Explain in detail about direct sequence spread spectrum transmission and
reception.
12. a) Derive link equation.
b) Explain system noise temperature in detail.

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7

OR
c) Explain receiver of GPS with block diagram.

d) Explain GPS position location procedure.

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Examination, November 2014

(2007 Admn. Onwards)

PT2K6/2K6 EC 705(E}: INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS

Time: 3 Hours

Max. Marks : 100

PART-A

I. a) What is a comparator? What are the different types of comparators?

b) Explain electromagnetic pickup type tachometer.

c) Explain a method for measuring very heavy forces in industries.

d) Describe force balance type transducer.

e) Explain area flow meters. Explain different types.

f) Explain Strain Gauge Load Cell.

g) Explain optical level indicator.

h) What is relative humidity? Explain different types of humidity measuring

instruments.
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(8x5=40)
PART-B
II. a) Explain an optical method for measurement of length of a gauge.

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OR
b) Explain Pendulous integrating Gyro Accelerometer.
III. a) Explain McLeod method for measurement of low pressure.

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b) Explain different types of dynamometers for torque measurements.

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IV. a) Describe ultrasonic flow meters.

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b) Explain 'Single Bubbler" method for density measurement.

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V. a) Describe Geiger Muller counter for detecting Radioactivity.

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OR
b) Explain resistive type level indicator (Liquid Level).

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(4x15=60)