1st sessionals portion

The syllabus for sessionals ( 12-15th sept'15) :

1. VLSI Design

1. Introduction to VLSI Design, Performance measures and issues.
2. Discussion of Moore’s law and VLSI technology trends
3. Discussion of MOSFET and types, operation and concept of threshold voltage
4. Study of depletion and enhancement mode MOSFET with VI characteristics
5. Derivation of equation for drain current and discussion of their significance.
6. Discussion of second-order effects
7. Pass transistors and transmission gates.
8. Analysis of NMOS inverters
9. Analysis of CMOS inverters
10. Discussion of the impact of device ratios on the performance of inverter
11. Implementation of Boolean functions and combinational circuits using switch logic and gate logic.
12. Designing of arbitrary logic using CMOS
13. NMOS fabrication
14. CMOS fabrication: Discussion of P-well & N-well process
15. Discussion of Twin-tub process, Latch up in CMOS and its prevention.

2. DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

1. Review of Signals and Systems, Time  analysis of Signals and Systems
2. Frequency analysis of Signals and Systems 
3. Review of  Z-Transform, 
4. Unilateral z-transform, solution of difference equations 
5. Analysis of LTI system in z-domain-system function 
6. pole-zero analysis, stability 
7. Frequency domain sampling and reconstruction of discrete time signals – 
8. DFT 
9. Properties of the DFT  
10. Use of DFT in linear filtering , Filtering of long data sequences 
11. Efficient computation of the DFT: FFT algorithm, Radix-2 DIT-FFT 
12. Radix-2 DIF-FFT, Inverse FFT 
13. In-place computation, Pipeline FFT, Goertzel algorithm  
14. Digital filters, IIR and FIR filter response (ideal and practical) and specifications 
15. Linear phase FIR filters with symmetric impulse response 
16. Linear phase FIR filters with anti-symmetric impulse response

3. ANALOG COMMUNICATION

1. Review of Fourier transform theory
2. Introduction to Energy and power signals 
3. Energy spectral density and its properties. 
4. Correlations of energy signals 
5. Power signals, Power spectral density and its properties. 
6. Correlations of power signals.
7. Parseval’s theorem 
8. Introduction to Amplitude modulation. 
9. Definition, time and frequency domain analysis of standard AM Single and multi- tone AM & its spectra, examples.
10. Modulation depth, average power, effective voltage and current for sinusoidal AM. 
11. AM generation: square law modulator, switching modulator.

4.  ANTENNAS

1. Introduction, Types of Antennas
2. Radiation Mechanism, Current Distribution 
3. Radiation Pattern, Field Regions 
4. Radiation Power Density & Intensity, Directivity, Gain, Beam Width 
5. Beam Efficiency , Bandwidth 
6. Input Impedance, 
7. Polarization, Antenna Efficiency 
8. Radiation Efficiency, Aperture Area
9. Maximum Directivity, Maximum Area, Antenna Temperature
10. Vector Potential A, Vector Potentials F 
11. Solution for Vector Potentials
12.  Far field Radiation, Duality & Reciprocity Theorem

5. COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 

1. Introduction: Uses of Computer Networks, Network Topologies
2. Network Hardware, Network Software, Network design issues, Network design tools 
3. Reference Models: ISO-OSI, TCP/IP, and ATM 
4.  Ethernet, Wireless LANs:802.11, Network standardization 
5. Physical Layer: Guided and Unguided Media, Maximum data rate of channel 
6. Multiplexing and Multiple Access techniques
7. Switching techniques (Circuit Switching, Message Switching, Packet Switching), Line Encoding 
8. Schemes (NRZ, RZ, Manchester, Differential Manchester) 
9. Data Link Layer(DLL): Design issues of DLL, Error Detection and Correction Techniques 
10. Stop-and-wait ARQ, Piggybacking,  Sliding window ARQ(1-Bit Sliding window, Go back-N, Selective Repeat) , Link Utilizations
11. DLL Protocols: HDLC, DLL in Internet, Point-to-Point Protocols 
12. MAC Sub Layer: Channel Allocation Problem, Random Access Protocols(ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA) 
13. Collision-Free Protocols (Bit-Map Protocol, Binary Countdown), Controlled Access 
14. Protocols(Reservation, Polling, Token Passing)

* FOR CN ,THERE ARE TOPICS WHICH ARE NOT DONE IN SOME SECTIONS, BUT THIS IS SYLLABUS AS TOLD BY COORDINATOR, IF ANY CHANGES, WILL BE INFORMED.



6. CIPHER SYSTEM

1. Numbers in different bases, Number of digits
2. Time estimation for doing arithmetic, Big - O notations 
3. Divisibility, Euclidean algorithm, Congruences 
4.  Euler’s phi-function , Chinese remainder theorem 
5. Modular exponentiation by the repeated squaring method 
6. Affine transformation, Linear 
7. Monograph , digraphs 
8. Linear and shift transformations 
9. Affine transformation, Enciphering matrices 
10. Vigenere and Beufort systems, Diffusion and confusion. 
11. Monoalphabatic and poly alphabetic ciphers 
12. Cryptanalysis, Index of coincidence, To find the Key length