I am providing you the syllabus of Electronics & Communication Engg of Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers AMIE Section B Exam

AMIE Section B Exam Electronics & Communication Engg syllabus

Compulsory Subjects

IC 402 Engineering Management

EC 403 Communication Engineering

EC 404 Circuit Theory and Control

EC 405 Micro-processors and Micro-controllers

EC 406 Electronic Circuits

EC 407 Design of Electronic Devices and Circuits

Optional Subjects (Any three from any one Group)

Group I Telecommunication Engineering

EC 411 Broadcast and Television Engineering

EC 412 Radar and Antenna Engineering

EC 413 Microwave Engineering

EC 414 Optical and Satellite Communication

EC 415 Computer Networks and Communication

Group II Integrated Circuits & Systems Engineering

EC 421 Digital Hardware Design

EC 422 Pulse and Digital Circuits

EC 423 IC Design Techniques

EC 424 Solid State Physics and Semiconductor Devices

EC 425 Software Engineering

Group III Control and Instrumentation

EC 431 Sensors and Transducers

EC 432 Industrial Instrumentation and Computer Control

EC 433 Biomedical Electronics

EC 434 Signal Processing

EC 435 Control Systems



ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Group A

Management and Organisations

Management process: Definition, planning organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating,

types of management.

Organisation Definition, planning, design and development, types of organizations.

Management planning and control: Classical, new classical and modern principles.

General Management, scientific management, engineering, management, systems

management.

Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, goals, policies and procedures.

Control: Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or evaluation, monitoring and

controlling, types of control.

Human resource planning and management, selection, recruitment, training, retraining, skill

development, competence development, promotion and career development, participative

management, trade unions, and collective bargaining,

Management of Physical Resources

Plant: site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. Layout-types and relative merits

and demerits, Maintenance-Objectives, different types of associated decisions, strategies for

effective maintenance, computer applications.

Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control including inventory models with or

without storage costs, price break ( excluding dynamic and probabilistic considerations).

Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Planning (MRP).

Group B

Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of financial statements, ie., balancesheet,

profit and loss, and income statement. Fixed and current asset items. Fixed and current

liability items. Linkage of two successive balance-sheets through income or profit and loss

statement. Funds flow statement. Financial ratios and their implications.

Managerial economics: Concepts, theory of production, marginal productivity and cost.

Introduction to theory of firm.

Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, quality control and quality

management, Total quality management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality control

techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling.

Marketing management consumer behavior, market research, product design and

development pricing and promotion.

Project management: Introduction. Concept of a project, project management concepts,

project simulation, cost or project and means of financing, economic evaluation criteria of the

used Approach

project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, project control

(PERT, CPM techniques including crashing). Project evaluation.

Information technology and management. Role of information, management information

system and decision support system, Information technology-introduction to e-business, ecommerce

and integration tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP).

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Group A

Field theory: Fields, vector calculus, gradient, Divergence, curl, Gauss's laws. Stoke'

theorem, Helmholtz Theorem. Electric field intensity and potential, conducting Boundaries,

coaxial cylinders, Poisson's equations and Laplace equation. Ampere's circuital law,

differential equation for vector potential. Magnetic polarization and field intensity, boundary

conditions for Band H. Faraday's law. Time varying fields, displacement current. Maxwell's

equations in differential and integral forms.

Communication preliminaries. Signal representation in frequency and time domain. Fourier

transforms, power Spectrum, energy density spectrum. ,Direct delta function. Orthogonal

representatives of signals (Gram Schmidt Procedure), autocorrelation, sampling theressare

(Nyquist criterion). Random signal theory. Discrete probability theory, continuous random

variables, probability density functions, ergodic processes, correlation function, spectral

density, white noise.

Noise: Atmospheric, thermal, shot and partition noise, noise figure and experimental

determination of noise figure, minimum noise figures in networks. Analog communication.

Modulation theory and circuits. Amplitude modulation, AM-DSB, AM-DSB/SC, AM-SSB

and their comparison. Modulating and detector circuits for AM, FM and phase modulation~

Automatic frequency control. Pulse modulation. PAM, PDM, PPM, PCM, delta modulation

and circuits. Principle multiplexing FDM and TDM.

Group B

Transmission through network: Networks with random input, auto-correlations, special

density and probability density input-output relationships, envelope of sine wave plus

Gaussian noise, optimum systems and nonlinear systems. Maximum signal to noise ratio'

criterion. Minimum mean square error criteria, equivalent noise bandwidth. SNR in envelope

detectors and PCM systems. Comparison of modulation systems.

Digital communication: Basic information theory: Definition of information, entropy,

uncertainty and information, rate of communication, redundancy, relation between systems

capacity and information content of messages, discrete systems, discrete noisy channel,

channel coding.

Introduction to digital communication, quantization, PCM, log-PCM, DM, DPCM, AD, PCM

and LPC for speech signals, TOM. Baseband transmission, optimum detection, matched

A Focused Approach

filter, optimum terminal filters. LSI pulse shapes for controlled ISI, line codes; digital RF

modulation. Modems, performance of digital modulation systems. Synchronization. Timing

recovery.

CIRCUIT THEORY AND CONTROL

Group A

Graph of a network. Concept of tree, concepts of loop current and node pair voltage, circuits

cut-set and cut-set matrices, formulation of equilibrium equations of the loop and node basis.

Mesh and nodal analysis.

Laplace transform. Transient response using Laplace transform. Initial and final value

theorems. Unit step, impulse, ramp functions. Laplace transform for shifted and' singular

functions.

The convolution integral, Fourier series, complex exponential form of the Fourier series. The

frequency spectra of periodic waveforms and their relationship to Laplace transform.

The concept of complex frequency, transform impedance and admittance; series .and parallel

combinations. Frequency response, coupled circuits.

Terminals and terminal pairs, driving point impedance, transfer functions, poles and zeros,

restrictions on pole and zero locations in s-plane. Analysis of 1-port and 2-port networks.

Time domain behavior from pole and zero plot, sinusoidal network functions in terms of

poles and zeros. Resonance, Q and bandwidth of a circuit.

Introduction to synthesis of passive networks: Butterworths, Chebyshev and Bessel type low

pass, high pass, band pass and band rejection filters.

Group B

Introduction: Basic concepts and symbols, open loop and closed loop systems, effects of

feedback. Concepts of linear and nonlinear systems. Definition of transfer function. Block

diagram representation. Signal flow graphs.

Servo components: Mathematical modelling and simulation of dynamic systems. Synchros,

potentiometers, gyros. d.c. and a.c. servomotors. d.c.. and a.c. tachogenerators. Power and

preamplifiers. Modulators and demodulators. Position and speed control systems.

Time response: Typical test input' signals. Time domain performance of first and second

order systems to impulse, step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs. Definition of error coefficients

and steady state error.

Stability: Routh-Hurwitz criteria.

Frequency response: Frequency domain specifications. Bode plots. Polar plots.

Regulators and controllers. Proportional, PI and PID controllers.

MICROPROCESSOR AND MICRO CONTROLLERS

Group A

Microprocessor architecture and microcomputer systems, memory systems, input and

output devices. Number systems-binary, hexadecimal and BCD numbers, 2s complement and

arithmetic operations.

8085 microprocessor architecture. Memory interfacing address decoding techniques,

memory read and write operations. Memory map. Interfacing I/O devices- Memory-mapped

I/O and I/O mapped I/O. Polled and interrupt modes of data transfer. 8085 interrupts, direct

memory access. Introduction to 16-bit microprocessor using 8086 as an example. Concept of

debugger and MASM/T ASM for PC assembly language programming.

Peripheral devices. 8255 programmable peripheral interface, 8253 programmable counter

timer, serial communication with SID and SOD, 8251 programmable communication

interface, 8259 programmable interrupt controller, keyboard and display devices.

8085 assembly language programming: 8085 instructions-addressing modes. Stack and

subroutines. 8085 programmer's model-CPU registers. Addition, subtraction and

multiplication routines. Software delay and counting routines. Logical operations. Analog

and digital I/O interface routines-ADC and DAC.

Software development systems: Assemblers and cross assemblers.

Microprocessor applications. Microprocessor based system design aids and troubleshooting

techniques.

Group B

Introduction to microcontroller: Comparison of various microcontrollers. 8051

microcontroller architecture. Bi-directional data ports, internal ROM and RAM,

counters/timers. Oscillator and clock.

8051 registers. Memory organisations-program memory and data memory, internal RAM

and bit addressable memory, special functions, registers, memory map.

External memory systems and I/O interface. Accessing external program memory,

accessing external data memory, available I/O ports during external memory access.

Alternate ports functions. Serial interface. 8051 interrupts. Power down modes.

8051 assembly language programming. 8051instruction sets, addressing modes, bit level

operations. Arithmetic routines, counting and timing under interrupt control, keyboard and

display interface routines, accessing lookup tables.

Software development systems. Assemblers and simulators. Microcontroller based system

design and applications.

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS

Group A

Blasting techniques of BJT and FETs; Bias stability; Self-bias, hybrid II model of BJT and

'high frequency response.

Single stage amplifiers-bipolar amplifiers, CE, CB, CC configurations, characteristics, gain,

h-parameters, analysis using h-parameters. FET amplifiers.

Multistage amplifiers-classification, distortion, frequency response, step response, RCcoupled

amplifiers, transformer coupled amplifiers.

Feedback amplifiers-concept, gain with feedback, negative feedback-example of Boot

strapped CE amplifier, advantages and limitations, input and output impedance; voltageseries,

voltage-shunt, current -series, current-shunt feedback amplifiers.

Stability and oscillators-condition of oscillation, sinusoidal oscillator, phase shift oscillator,

resonant circuit oscillator, Wein bridge oscillator, crystal oscillator, stability of frequency.

Operational amplifiers-differential amplifiers, transfer characteristics, IC op-amp functions,

frequency response, step response; introduction to analog computer.

Power amplifiers-class A, B, AB, C amplifiers. Distortion, efficiency, push-pull principle,

power supply half wave, full wave, ripple factors, filters, regulation.

Group B

Introduction, binary numbers, binary codes.

Boolean algebra-functions and expressions, gates- OR, AND, NOT, NOR, NAND, De

Morgan's theorem, laws and theorems.

Minimization of logical functions-Karnaugh map.

Arithmetic circuits-Ex-OR gate, half adder, full adder, subtraction, code conversion, etc.

Basic gate structures-RTL, DTL, Tll.., ECL, MOS, CMOS.

Flip-flops-RS, T, RST, D, JK, Schmidt trigger, astable, monostable:

Counter techniques-Ripple counter, parallel counter.

BCD counter, synchronous counter, ring counter.

Shift registers, memory.

D/ A and A/D converters.

DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS

Group A

Introduction to linear ICs. Operational amplifiers and their basic applications;

audio/radio/video ICs and their specifications.

Power supplies. Rectifiers, filters and electronic stabilization circuits, considerations

regarding ripple, regulation and efficiency, short circuit protection; polyphase rectifiers,

electronic converters, applications in industry. Introduction to UPS.

IC voltage regulators. Positive and negative voltage regulators, adjustable voltage

regulators, high current short circuit protected regulators, dual tracking regulations,

programmable supply, current regulators, witching regulators, fold back current limited and

shutdown Circuits.

Amplifiers: Inverting amplifiers, non-inverting amplifiers, differential amplifiers, integrator

and differentiator, logarithmic amplifiers and multipliers, filters, voltage to frequency

converters, sample and hold circuit, high input impedance amplifiers, instrumentation

amplifiers, sensing amplifiers and comparators, zero crossing detector.

Group B

Oscillators. Expression for oscillation frequency and conditions for maintenance of

oscillations, sine wave oscillators, multivibrators, function generators, voltage controlled

oscillators, crystal oscillators.

Communication circuits. RF and IF amplifiers, video amplifiers, AM detectors, balanced

modulators and demodulators, phase locked loop, FM demodulation, frequency shift keying,

frequency multiplication.

Digital systems. Frequency counters, A/D and D/A converters, digital voltmeters,

programmable digital generators, frequency synthesizer. Design of ALU.