EC100: BASICS OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To get basic idea about types, specification and common values of passive and active
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components
2 To familiarize the working of diodes, transistors, MOSFETS and integrated circuits.
3 To understand the working of rectifiers, amplifiers and oscillators.
4 To get a basic idea about measuring instruments
5 To get a fundamental idea of basic communication systems and entertainment electronics
Unit I
Evolution of Electronics, Impact of Electronics in industry and in society- Resistors,
Capacitors: types, specifications. Standard values, marking, colour coding - Inductors
and Transformers: types, specifications, Principle of working- Electro mechanical
components: relays and contactors.
Unit II
PN Junction diode: Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, Principle of operation, V-I
characteristics, principle of working of Zener diode, Photo diode, LED and Solar cell.
Bipolar Junction Transistors: PNP and NPN structures, Principle of operation, input
and output characteristics of common emitter configuration (NPN only).
Unit III
Rectifiers and power supplies: Block diagram description of a DC power supply ,Half
wave and full wave (including bridge) rectifier, capacitor filter, working of simple
zener voltage regulator.
Amplifiers and Oscillators: Circuit diagram and working of common emitter amplifier,
Block diagram of Public Address system, concepts of feedback, working principles of
oscillators, circuit diagram & working of RC phase shift oscillator.
Unit IV
Analogue Integrated circuits: Functional block diagram of operational amplifier, ideal
operational amplifier, inverting and non-inverting Amplifier.
Digital ICs: Logic Gates. Electronic Instrumentation: Principle and block diagram of
digital multimeter, digital storage oscilloscope, and function generator.
Unit V
Radio communication: principle of AM & FM, frequency bands used for various
communication systems, block diagram of super heterodyne receiver. Satellite
communication: concept of geostationary Satellite system.
Unit VI
Entertainment Electronics Technology: Basic principles and block diagram of cable
TV, CCTV, DTH system.
Mobile communication: basic principles of cellular communications, concepts of cells,
frequency reuse.
Optical communication: block diagram of the optical communication system, principle
of light transmission through fiber, advantages of optical communication systems.