2nd Sessional Portion

The syllabus for sessionals  :

1. VLSI Design

1. SOI process of CMOS fabrication, VLSI yield and economics
2.  Stick diagrams.
3. Design rules and Layouts
4. Representation of logic circuits in stick notation and drawing layouts.
5.  Concept of sheet resistance, standard unit of capacitance, delay unit, 
6. resistance and area capacitance calculation
7. Estimation of NMOS inverter pair delay, CMOS inverter delay.
8. Driving of large capacitive loads
9. Super buffers, Discussion of power dissipation.
10.  Pseudo NMOS
11. clocked cmos logic and dynamic nmos 

2. DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

1. Design of FIR filters using window’s 
   1.  
2. Frequency sampling and Optimum design methods 
3. Classical design of IIR filters, S-plane to Z-plane mapping, impulse 
4. invariance transformation 
5. Bilinear transformation, Matched Z-Transform 
6. Characteristics of Butterworth, Chebyshev & elliptic filters 
7. Butterworth and Chebyshev filter design 
8. Spectral transformation, Direct design of IIR filters

3. ANALOG COMMUNICATION

1. AM detection: synchronous, square law & envelope detector, Noise in AM System.
2.  DSB-SC modulation: Introduction. 
3.  Time  & Frequency domain analysis in DSBSC system. 
4.  Noise in DSB-SC, figure of merit. 
5. SSB Modulation: Introduction, time and frequency domain analysis. 
6.  Generation of SSB using Filter method, Phase Discrimination method and Third method . 
7. Coherent detection of SSB, Pilot carrier system. Noise in SSB system 
8.  Angle modulation: Introduction to phase Modulation (PM) and frequency modulation(FM) 
9. FM  time and frequency domain analysis, modulation index and average power for sinusoidal FM. 
10. Generation of FM using Direct Method and Indirect method. 
11.  Detection of FM using phase locked loop

4.  ANTENNAS

1. Infinitesimal Dipole: General Expression for E & H
2. Expression for E & H in other Regions, Directivity 
3. Small Dipole: Expression for E & H, Directivity 
4. Finite Length Dipole: Expression for E & H, Directivity 
5. Half Wavelength Dipole, Expression for E & H , Directivity 
6. Ground effects, Vertical and Horizontal Dipole, Directivity 
7. Small Circular Loop Antenna: Expression for E & H 
8. Resistance, Directivity
9. Loop Antenna: Expression for E & H, Power Radiated, Ferrite Loop

5. COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 

1. Wireless LAN Protocols: Hidden Station and Exposed Station Problem, MACA and MACAW Protocols
2. Ethernet MAC Sublayer Protocol, Binary Exponential Back-off Algorithm, Ethernet Performance 
3. IEEE 802.3 Ethernet: Ethernet Cabling, Switched Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 
4. performance issues 
5. IEEE 802.4 (Toke Bus), IEEE 802.5 (Token Ring), Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) 
6. Network Layer: Design Issues 
7. Routing Algorithms: Optimality Principle, Shortest Path Routing, Flooding 
8. Distance Vector Routing, Count-to-Infinity Problem 
9. Link State Routing 
10. Hierarchical Routing, Broadcast Routing, Multicast Routing, Routing for Mobile Hosts 
11. Congestion Control Algorithms 
12. Quality-of-Service ( QoS) 
13. Network Layer in Internet: IP Protocols (IPv4, IPv6) 
14. IP Addressing: Classful Addressing, CIDR, NAT 
15.  Transport Layer: The Transport Service, Elements of Transport Protocols 
16.  Internet Transport Protocols: UDP 
17. Internet Transport Protocols: TCP, Performance issues

6. CIPHER SYSTEM

1. Block cipher systems, The Feistel cipher
2. Simplified des, the des 
3. Block cipher principles, The strength of DES 
4. Differential and linear cryptanalysis, Block design principles 
5. Block cipher modes of operations, 
6. Introduction to finite fields, GF(p), 
7. Polynomial arithmetic, finite fields of the form GF(2n) 
8. Evaluation criteria for AES, AES , Triple DES 
9. Blow fish, rc5