15EI251

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ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
-- Academic Council Meeting -- 2016

PURPOSE

The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with the principle of operation, capabilities and
limitation of Electronics and Instrumentation so that he will be able to use this knowledge effectively.
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
STUDENT
OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, student will be able to
1. Design rectifiers and voltage stabilizer circuits.
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2. Analyze various biasing methods of Transistor.
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3. Know the usage of Semiconductor Devices for high power applications.
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4. Understand the Basic of Measurement System.
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5. Use of Primary sensing element and Signal Conditioning unit.
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Description of Topic
UNIT 1 SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE

1.
2.
3.

Semiconductor diode Crystal diode as a Rectifier Equivalent

circuit of a Crystal Diode
Half Wave Rectifier Efficiency of Half Wave Rectifier

Contac
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2
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Full Wave Rectifier Center tap Full Wave Rectifier

4.

Full Wave Bridge Rectifier Efficiency of Full Wave Bridge

Rectifier

5.

Zener Diode Equivalent Circuit of Zener Diode Zener Diode as a

voltage regulator

UNIT II: TRANSISTOR AND ITS BIASING

Transistor symbols Transistor as an amplifier Connections

7.

CB, CE and CC Characteristics Comparison of Transistor

Connections

8.

Transistor as an Amplifier in CE arrangement Transistor Load line

analysis Operating Point

6.

9.

CE Circuit - Performance of Transistor Amplifier - Cut Off and

Saturation points
10. Transistor biasing: Methods of transistor Biasing - Base resistor
method - Biasing with feedback resistor - Voltage divider bias
method .
UNIT III: FET, SCR AND UJT
11.

Types of Field Effect Transistor - JFET - Working Principles of JFET

12. JFET as an Amplifier and its Output Characteristics - JFET

Applications
13. MOSFET Working Principle - SCR - Equivalent Circuit and V-I
Characteristics. SCR as a Half wave and Full Wave Rectifier

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14. Application of SCR - TRIAC and DIAC characteristics and its

applications
15.
UJT - Equivalent Circuit of a UJT and its Characteristics - Tutorial
UNIT IV: MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

1
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1,5

1,5

2,8

2,8

2,8

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2,8

2,8

2,8

16. Measurements and its Significance, Methods of Measurements,

Classification of Instruments and application
17. Elements of a Generalized Measurement System, Static and
Dynamic Characteristics of an Instruments
18. Errors in Measurement Systems - Units, System, Dimension and
standards.
UNIT V: PRIMARY SENSING ELEMENTS AND SIGNAL
CONDITIONING
19. Introduction - Transducers - Advantage of Electric Transducers,
Classification Based upon Principle of Transduction,

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4
1

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C,D
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3

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20.

Primary and Secondary transducer, Passive and Active transducers,

Analog and Digital transducers, Transducers and inverse transducers
21. Input,Transfer and output Characteristics and its application.
Operational Amplifier
22.

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LEARNING RESOURCES
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TEXT BOOKS
No.
1.
Mehta.V.K, and Rohit Metha, Principles of Electronics, S.chand & Company Ltd., First Edition, 2010.
2.
Sawhney.A.K, A Course in Electrical and Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation, Dhanpat Rai
Sons, New Delhi, 2012.
REFERENCE BOOKS/OTHER READING MATERIAL
3.
Millman and Halkias, Electronic devices and Circuits, Tata McGraw Hill International Edition, 2010.
4.
Mithal.G.K, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi,2008
5.
Salivahanan.S, Sureshkumar.N, and Vallavaraj.A, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Tata McGraw - Hill,
New Delhi, 2011.
6.
Sze.S.M, Semiconductor Devices - Physics and Technology, 2nd Edtion, John Wiley & Sons, New York,
2006.
7.
Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee, Solid State Electronic Devices, Pearson Education, 2009.
8.
Ernest O. Doebelin, Measurement Systems - Application and Design, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi,
2011.

Course nature
Assessment Method (Weightage 100%)
Assessment
Cycle test I
In-semester
tool
Weightage
10%

Theory
Cycle test
II
15%

Surprise
Quiz
Test
15%
5%
5%
End semester examination Weightage :

Cycle Test III

Total
50%
50%