ANNA UNIVERSITY :: CHENNAI – 600 025

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING

(8 SEMESTER PROGRAMME)
BRANCH: B.E. ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

LIST OF ELECTIVES
VI SEMESTER
Code No. Course Title L T P M
EC034 Operating System 3 0 0 100
EC035 Computer Hardware and Interfacing 3 0 0 100
EC036 Advanced Microprocessors 3 0 0 100
EC037 Object Oriented Programming 3 0 0 100
EC040 Industrial Electronics 3 0 0 100
EC041 Medical Electronics 3 0 0 100
EC043 Advanced Electronic System Design 3 0 0 100
EC044 Advanced Solid State Devices 3 0 0 100
EC045 Computer Aided Analysis and Design 3 0 0 100
EC051 Engineering Acoustics 3 0 0 100
EC053 Internet and Java 3 0 0 100
EC057 Advanced Digital Signal Processing 3 0 0 100

VIII SEMESTER
Code No. Course Title L T P M
EC039 Power Electronics 3 0 0 100
EC042 Opto Electronic Devices 3 0 0 100
EC046 Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit Design 3 0 0 100
EC047 Cellular Mobile Communication 3 0 0 100
EC048 Satellite Communication and Broadcasting 3 0 0 100
EC049 Radar and Navigation Aids 3 0 0 100
EC050 Electromagnetic Interface and Compatibility 3 0 0 100
EC052 Integrated Services Digital Network 3 0 0 100
EC054 Telecommunication Switching and Networks 3 0 0 100
EC055 Telecommunication System Modeling and 3 0 0 100
Simulation
EC056 Digital Image Processing 3 0 0 100
HS053 Communication Skills for Engineers 2 0 2 100
GE037 Intellectual Property Right 3 0 0 100
GE038 Indian Constitution and Society 3 0 0 100
LANGUAGE ELECTIVES
1. HS 034 Technical Tamil 2 0 2 100
2. HS 035 Technical German – I 3 1 0 100
3. HS 036 Technical German - II 3 1 0 100
4. HS 037 Technical Japanese – I 3 1 0 100
5. HS 038 Technical Japanese – II 3 1 0 100
6. HS 039 Technical French – I 3 1 0 100
7. HS 040 Technical French – II 3 1 0 100
8. HS 041 English – I 3 1 0 100
9. HS 042 English – II 3 1 0 100
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EC034 OPERATING SYSTEMS

1. INTRODUCTION 9
History of OS, OS concepts, processes, files, shell, virtual machine, client sewer model,
memory management without swapping or paging, monoprogramming & multi
programming, virtual memory, paging, Associative memory, page replacement
algorithms, Belady‟s Anamely, Optimum page size, segmented memory.

2. PROCESS MANAGEMENT 9
Interprocess Communications, Critical sections, Mutual Exclusions, Semaspheres,
Deadlocks, Deadlock deduction and recovery, Deadlock avoidance and prevention‟s,
Round Robin Scheduling, Priority Scheduling, SJF Scheduling, Guaranteed Scheduling,
Two level Scheduling, Classical IPC Problems.

3. FILE SYSTEMS 9
File naming, File structure, File types, File attributes, File access, File operations,
Memory mapped files, Directories, Path names, Disk space management, Security,
Internet worm, User authentication, Virus, Antivirus packages, Trojan horse attack, bad
block management, Optimum block size.

4. DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM 9

Goals, Hardware & Software concepts, Design issues, Communication, Synchronization
and dead locks in distributed OS, Election algorithm, Concurrency control, Andrew file
system, Mobil users, Wide area networking Fault tolerance.

5. CASE STUDIES 9
History, Overview, Fundamental concepts, System calls and implementation of UNIX,
MS-DOS, AMOEBA and MACH.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS
1. Andrew. S. Tanenbanen, “Modern Operating Systems”, Prentice Hall of India
Ltd., May, 1996.
2. Charles Crowley, “Operating System”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1998.
3. H.M. Deited, “Operating Systems”, Addison – Wesley, 2nd edition, 1990.

REFERENCES
1. Achyut. S. Godbole, “Operating Systems”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1996.
2. M. Mileukovic, “Operating Systems concepts and design” Tata McGraw-Hill,
1992.
3. Silberschatz.A and P.B.Galvur, “Operating Systems concepts”, Addison –
Wesley, 1994.
4. A.Gosciuski, “Distributed operating systems the logical design”, Addison –
Wesley, Reading, MA, 1991.
EC035 COMPUTER HARDWARE AND INTERFACING

1. ORGANIZATION AND MOTHER BOARD LOGIC OF COMPUTERS

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Organization of computer systems, Motherboard its functions and logic‟s; operating
systems and boot process; The pre-service checkout, power supply; BIOS, chipsets,
CMOS, PC cards and peripheral.

2. MOTHERBOARD CIRCUITS, SUPPORT CHIPS AND THEIR

INTERFACING 12
DMA, Timer, I/O port, parallel, serial, DVD, FDC, HDC, Display, keyboard CD-ROM
interfacing, soundboards.

3. BUS INTERFACING AND DATA TRANSFER 10

Asynchronous and synchronous buses, memory management & interfacing, Bus
standards, ISA/FISA bus operations.

4. TROUBLE SHOOTING PCS 8

Motherboards, CPU, monitor memory, FDC, HDC, PC cards serials and parallel ports,
preventive maintenance.

TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Stephen J, Bigelow, “Trouble shooting, maintaining and repairing PCs”, Tata
McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1999.
2. Stanley & Hall, “PC Data Handbook, BPB Publications, New Delhi, 1992.

REFERENCES:
1. Govindarajulu, “IBM PC and clones Hardware trouble shooting and maintenance,
Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1997.
2. Scott Muller, “Upgrading and Repairing PCs”, Microtech Publications, Dubai,
1996.
3. Ronald L.Krutz, “Interfacing Techniques in Digital Design with Emphasis on
Microprocessors”, John Wiley & Sons New York, 1996.

EC036 ADVANCED MICRO PROCESSORS

1. THE INTEL X86 FAMILY 9

The intel X86 family architecture, 32 bit processor evolutions Systems connections and
timing, Instruction and data formats, Instruction set of X86 processors, Addressing
modes.

2. INTEL X86 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAM 9

Implementation of strings, Procedures, Macros, BIOS and DOS services using X86
assembly language programming, Memory and I/O interfacing, Analog interfacing and
industrial control.
3. SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT 9
Microprocessors based system design, TMS 320 series DSP based signal processing,
Microcontroller 8051, 8051 based system design.

4. THE MOTOROLA MC 68000 FAMILY 9

The MC 68000 architecture, CPU registrars, Data formats, Addressing modes, Instruction
set and assembler directors, Memory management instruction and data, Caches,
exception processing.

5. RISC PROCESSORS 9
RISC vs CISC, RISC properties and evaluation, Advanced RISC microprocessors, DEC
ALPHA, The power PC family, The SUN SPARC family, The MIPS RX100 family, The
intel 860 family, The Motorola M88000 family, HP precision architecture.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. B. B Bery, “The INTEL Microprocessors 8086/8088, 80186/80188, 80286, 80386
80486, PENTIUM, and PENTIUM pro processor”, Prentice Hall, 1997.
2. K.Udayakumar, B.S. Uma Shankar, “Advanced Microprocessors and IBM PC
assembly language programming”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1996.

REFERENCES:
1. Daniel Tabak, “Advanced Microprocessors”, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
2. Douglas V.Hall, “Microprocessors and Interfacing – programming Hardware”,
McGraw-Hill, 1992.
3. W. A. Tribel, & A. Singh, “The 68000 and 68020 Microprocessors –
Architecture, Software and Interfacing Techniques”, Prentice Hall, 1991.
4. Rifiquzzaman, “Microprocessors – Theory and Application: Intel and Motorola”,
Prentice Hall, 1992.
5. Kenneth J.Ayala, “The 8051 Microcontroller, Architecture, Programming and
Applications”, Penram International Publishing (India), 1996.
6. John Peatman, “Design with Microcontrollers”, McGraw-Hill International, 1988.

EC037 OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

1. INTRODUCTION 9
Classes, Objects, Structures, Declaration of Class, Member functions, Pointers, Unions,
Nested class, Copy and Default Constructors, Destructors, Inline member functions,
Static class members, Friend functions, Inheritance, Ambiguity in single inheritance,
Multiple inheritance container classes, Member Access control.

2. RUDIMENTS OF C++ 9
Identifiers, Keywords, Constants, C++ operators, Statements, Manipulator functions,
Control & loop statements, Functions and program structures, Recursive functions, Pre-
processors, Header files, Standard functions, Multi function program, Conditional
compilation.
3. ARRAYS, POINTERS, STRUCTURES & UNIONS 9
Processing with arrays, Multidimensional arrays, Character arrays, Pointer arithmetic,
Array of pointers, Pointers to pointers, Arrays of structures, Nested structure, Unions, Bit
fields, Enumeration‟s.

4. OVERLOADING & POLYMORPHISM 9

Function overloading operators overloading, Overloading of binary operators,
Overloading of unary operators, Polymorphism with pointers, Virtual functions, Late
binding, Abstract base classes, Constructors under inheritance, Destructors under
inheritance, Virtual Destructors, Virtual base classes.

5. EXCEPTION HANDLING & DATA FILE OPERATIONS 9

Function template, class template, Exception handling Opening & closing of files, Binary
file operations, Random Access file processing, Various Turbo C++ and Borland C++
streams and file processing commands.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOK:
1. Balaguruswamy, “Object oriented programming with C++ Tata McGraw-Hill,
Second edition.

REFERENCES:
1. Lafore.R., “Object oriented programming in Microsoft C++”, Galgotia, New
Delhi, 1993.
2. Venugopal, Ravishanker and Rajkumar, “Mastering C++”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
First edition, 1998.
3. D. Ravichandran, “Programming with C++”, Tata McGraw-Hill, First edition,
1997.
4. Appleby, “Programming Languages: Pradigm and Practice”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
First edition.
5. N.E.Smith, “Object oriented programming using Turbo C++”, BPB, New Delhi,
1992.

EC039 POWER ELECTRONICS

1. POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 9

Power transistors, Fast recovery diodes, Thyristors, Power TRIAC, MOSFET, IGBT,
GTO characteristics, rating, Protection circuits, Driver Circuits.

2. POWER SUPPLIES 9
Single Phase and Three Phase Controlled rectifiers, Design of Trigger circuits, Switching
mode regulators – Boost, Buck, Buck-Boost and Cuk regulators, AC voltage regulator.

3. INVERTERS 9
Voltage and current source inverters, Resonant, Series inverter, PWM inverter.
4. CHOPPERS 9
Type A, B, C and D choppers, Pulse width modulation - Gating requirements.

5. MOTOR CONTROL 9
DC motor drives, Induction and Synchronous motor drives, Switched reluctance and
brushless motor drives.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOK:
1. M.D.Singh, K.B. Khanchandani, “Power Electronics”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1998.

REFERENCES:
1. Ned Mohan, Tore M.Undeland, William P.Robbins, “Power Electronics,
Converters, Applications and Design”, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
2. Muhamed H.Roshid, “Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Application”,
Prentice Hall of India, 1995.
3. B.K.Bose, “Modern Power Electronics”, Jaico Publishing House, 1999.
4. Sen, Power Electronics”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1987.

EC040 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS

1. PROCESS ELEMENT CHARACTERISTICS 9

First, second and higher order process elements, Static and dynamic response of position,
force, motion, fluid and temperature transducers, Signal conditioning circuits for
transducers.

2. ANALOG AND DIGITAL CONTROLLERS 9

ON / OFF, Proportional and PID controllers, Cascader and feed forward control, Data
acquisition system, Digital PID controller, PLC and Ladder diagram.

3. POWER INTERFACES 9
Power operational amplifiers, Servo amplifiers, Thyristor based interfaces.

4. INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS 9

Strip tension control, Edge guide control, Furnace control system, Electronic welding
control, Automatic weighing system.

5. INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS 9
Robot concept, Mechanical configuration, Programming robots.
TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOK:
1. Thomas E.Kissell, “Industrial Electronics”, Prentice Hall, 1997.
 REFERENCES:
1. Maas, “Industrial Electronics”, Prentice Hall, 1995.
2. Michael Jacob.J., “Industrial control Electronics Application and Design”,
Prentice Hall, 1988.
3. Timothy J.Malony, “Industrial solid state Electronics”, Prentice Hall, 1986.
4. Mikell P.Groover, Mitchell Weiss, Roger.N, Nagel, Nicholas G.Odrey, “Industrial
Robotics Technology, Programming and Application”, McGraw-Hill, 1986.
5. Fu.K.S., Gonzalez R.C. and Lee C.S.G., „Robotics – Control, Sensing, Vision and
Intelligence”, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1987.

EC041 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS

1. ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPOTENTIAL RECORDING 9

The origin of Biopotentials; biopotential electrodes; biological amplifiers; ECG, EEG,
EMG, PCG, EOG, lead systems and recording methods, typical waveforms and signal
characteristics.

2. BIO-CHEMICAL AND NON ELECTRICAL PARAMETER

MEASUREMENTS 9
pH, PO2, PCO2, PHCO3, Electrophoresis, colorimeter, photometer, Auto analyzer,
Blood flow meter, cardiac output, respiratory measurement, Blood pressure, temperature,
pulse, Blood cell counters.

3. ASSIST DEVICES 9
Cardiac pacemakers, DC Debrillators, Dialyser, Heart-Lung machine, Hearing aids.

4. PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND BIO-TELEMETRY 9

Diathermies – Short-wave, ultrasonic and microwave type and their applications, Medical
stimulator, Telemetry principles, frequency selection, Bio-telemetry, radio-pill and tele-
stimulation.

5. RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION 9

Thermograph, endoscopy unit, Laser in medicine, Surgical diathermy, cryogenic
application, Electrical safety.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. John G.Webster, “Medical Instrumentation Application and Design”, John Wiley
and Sons, New York, 1998.
2. Leslie Cromwell, “Biomedical instrumentation and measurement”, Prentice Hall
of India New Delhi, 1997.

REFERENCES
1. Khandpur, R.S, “Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
New Delhi, 1997.
2. Joseph J.Carr and John M.Brown, “Introduction to Biomedical equipment
technology”, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997.

EC042 OPTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES

1. ELEMENTS OF LIGHT AND SOLID STATE PHYSICS 9

Wave nature of light, Polarization, Interference, Diffraction, Light Source, review of
Quantum Mechanical concept, Review of Solid State Physics, Review of Semiconductor
Physics, Semiconductor Junction Device, Review.

2. DISPLAY DEVICES AND LASERS 8

Introduction, Photo Luminescence, Cathode Luminescence, Electro Luminescence,
Injection Luminescence, LED, Plasma Displays, Liquid Crystal Displays, Numeric
Display, Laser Emission, Absorption, Radiation, Population Inversion, Optical feedback,
Threshold condition, Laser Modes, Classes of Lasers, Mode Locking, Laser applications.

3. OPTICAL DETECTION DEVICES 8

Photo detector, Thermal detector, Photon Devices, Photo Conductors, Photo diodes,
Detector Performance.

4. OPTOELECTRONIC MODULATOR AND SWITCHING DEVICES 8

Introduction, Analog and Digital Modulation, Electro-optic modulators, Magneto Optic
Devices, Accoustopic devices, Optical, Switching and Logic Devices.

5. OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS 9

Introduction, hybrid and Monolithic Integration, Applications of Opto Electronics
Integrated Circuits, Integrated transmitters and Receivers, Guided wave devices.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOK:
1. J.Wilson and J.Haukes, “Opto Electronics – An Introduction”, Prentice Hall of
India Pvt., Ltd., New Delhi, 1995.

REFERENCES:
1. Bhattacharya, “Semiconductor Opto Electronic Devices”, Prentice Hall of India
Pvt., Ltd., New Delhi, 1995.
2. Jasprit Singh, “OptoElectronics – An Introduction to materials and Devices”,
McGraw-Hill International Edition, 1998.

EC043 ADVANCED ELECTRONICS SYSTEM DESIGN

1. DESIGN OF AMPLIFIERS 9
Wideband amplifiers and design of compensating networks, Analysis and design of
differential video amplifiers, Very wide band amplifiers, RF amplifiers and RF power
amplifiers, Design of matching networks, Low noise amplifiers design, Analysis of noise
in IC amplifiers.
2. DESIGN OF POWER SUPPLIES 9
DC power supply design using transistors and SCRs, Design of crowbar and foldback
protection circuits, Switched mode power supplies, Forward, flyback, buck and boost
converters, Design of transformers and control circuits for SMPS.

3. DESIGN OF DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS 9

Amplification of Low level signals, Grounding and Shielding and Guarding techniques,
Dual slope, quad slope and high speed A/D converters, Microprocessors Compatible A/D
converters, Multiplying A/D converters and Logarithmic A/D converters, Design of two
– and – wire transmitters.

4. DESIGN OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS 9

Introduction to technology of printed circuit boards (PCB), General lay out and Rules and
parameters, PCB design rules for Digital, High Frequency, Analog, Power Electronics
and Microwave circuits, Computer Aided design of PCBs.

5. SYSTEM DESIGN PROJECT USING ICs 9

Design of Auto ranging Digital Multimeter, Digital Timer, Design of function and Signal
Generators, Frequency synthesizers and DC motor speed control design using PLL,
Digital frequency and Time-Interval meter, Design of Analog process controllers.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Sydney Soclof, “Applications of Analog Integrated Circuits”, Prentice Hall of
India, 1990.
2. Keith H.Billings, “Handbook of Switched Mode Supplies” McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co., 1989.
3. F.H.Mitchell, “Introduction to Electronic Design”, Prentice Hall of India, 1991.

REFERENCES:
1. James.K.Hardy, “High Frequency Circuit Design”, Reston Publishing Company,
1979.
2. Michael Jaacob, “Applications and Design with Analog Integrated Circuits”
Prentice Hall of India, 1991.
3. Walter C.Bosshart, “Printed Circuit Boards – Design & technology”, Tata
McGraw-Hill, 1983.
4. Otmar Kigenstein, “Switched Mode Power supplies in Practice”, John Wiley and
Sons, 1989.
5. Rabaey, “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” Prentice Hall of
India, 1996.
6. J.D.Greenfield, “Practical Digital Design using IC‟s”, Prentice Hall, USA.
7. Data Sheet and Application manuals of Texas Instruments, National
Semiconductors, Analog Devices, Maxim, Linear Technology and their Web
sites.
EC044 ADVANCED SOLID STATE DEVICES

1. DIODES 9
PN diode, Heterojunction diode, Tunnel diode, PIN diode, MS diode, MIS diode,
Varactor diode, CCD.

2. TRANSISTORS 9
BJT, JFET, MOSFET, NMOS, CMOS, MESFET, HFET, Amorphous silicon devices.

3. POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES 9

PNPN diodes, SCR, DIAC, TRIAC.

4. MICROWAVE DEVICES 9
READ diode, IMPATT, TRAPATT, GUNN diode.

5. PHOTONIC DEVICES 9
LED, Injection laser, Photodiode, Phototransistor, Photoconductors, Solar cells.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. S.M.Sze, “Physics of Semiconductor devices”, Wiley Eastern, 2nd edition, 1991.
2. A.G. Milnes, “Semiconductor devices and Integrated electronics”, Van Nostrand
Reinhold Co., 1980.

REFERENCES:
1. Michael Shur, “Physics of Semiconductor Devices” Prentice Hall of India, 1995.
2. Giuseppe Massobrio & Paolo Antognethi, “Semi conductor Device Modeling
with SPICE”, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2nd edition, 1993.

EC045 COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

1. OVERVIEW OF EDA 9
EDA tools, Especially schematic capture (using PSPICE & ORCAD), Simulation (using
PSPICE & VHDL), layout (ORCAD for PCBs and magic for VLSI). The various steps in
the design cycle, Relation between different software tools used in EDA.

2. ANALOG CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES 9

Overview of PSPICE, Types of simulation-DC, AC, Transient, Monte Carlo, Parametric
and others, Simulation devices – ABMs, Laplace devices, Energy sources, Passive
components, Semiconductors, ICs Special devices – voltage makers, Initial conditions,
etc., Usage of type schematic editor, Probe and parts.

3. DIGITAL CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES 9

Overview of digital circuits, PLDs, FPGAs etc., Logic synthesis tools (using ORCAD),
Digital simulation at register, Gate and device levels, Hazards, Races and timing
violation (using ORCAD or P-logic), VHDL û programming, Concurrency, Simulation,
Automatic synthesis and layout.

4. MODELING FOR SIMULATION 9

Modeling of digital blocks in PSPICE, P-logic, ORCAD and VDHL, Analog modeling in
the frequency domain, Time domain, Models for R, L, C. Diode, BJT, JFET and
MOSFET, Model parameter extraction (using parts and magic).

5. COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES 9
Data structures and algorithms for manipulating graphs, Linked lists, Matrices and sparse
matrices, Numerical methods with variable time step, Example Runge Kutta fourth order,
The structure of the SPICE program, Routing algorithms for PCBs and VLSI, Event
driven simulation in VHDL, File formats in EDA, Example EDIF.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOK:
1. Paul W.Tuimenga, “An Introduction to Circuit Analysis using PSPICE”, Prentice
Hall of India, 1994.

REFERENCES:
1. L.O.Chua & P.M.Lin, “Computer Aided Analysis of Electric Circuits, Algorithms
and Computational Techniques”, Prentice Hall of India, 1975.
2. Ellis Horowitz & Sartaz Sahni, “Fundamental of Data Structures using
PASCAL”, Galgotia Book Source, 1987.

EC046 VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN

1. MOS TECHNOLOGY AND CIRCUITS 9

MOS Technology and VLSI, Process parameters and considerations for BJT, MOS and
CMOS, Electrical properties of MOS circuits and Device modelling.

2. MOS CIRCUIT DESIGN PROCESS 9

MOS layers, Stick diagram, Layout diagram, Propagation delays, Examples of
combinational logic design, Scaling MOS circuits.

3. DIGITAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 9

Programmable Logic Array (PLA) and finite state machines, Design of ALU‟s Memories
and Registers.

4. ANALOG VLSI AND HIGH SPEED VLSI 9

Introduction to analog VLSI, Models for analog switches, active resistors, current sources
/ sinks, current references, BJT and CMOS operational amplifiers for simulation. Layout
of typical circuits like common source amplifier, current source and differential
amplifier, Sub-micron technology and GaAs VLSI technology.

5. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES 9

VHDL Background and basic concepts, Structural specification of hardware and Design
organisation and parameterization.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS
1. Dougles A. Pucknell and Kamran Eshrafhian, Basic VLSI Design systems and
circuits”, Prentice Hall of India Pvt., Ltd.
2. Randall L.Geiger and P.E.Allen, “VLSI design techniques for analog and digital
circuits”, McGraw-Hill Int., Co., 1990.
3. Peter J.Ashenden, “The Designer‟s guide to VDNL”, Harcourt Asia Pvt., Ltd.,
1995.

REFERENCES
1. Amar Murkherjee, “Introduction to NMOS and CMOS VLSI system design”,
Prentice Hall, 1986.
2. Fabious.E., “Introduction to VLSI design”, McGraw-Hill, 1990.
3. Navabi.Z., “VHDL analysis and modeling of digital systems”, McGraw-Hill,
1983.
4. Mohammed Ismail and Terri Fiez, “Analog VLSI, Signal and Information
Processing”, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
5. Neil H.E. Weste, Kamaran Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design”,
Addison Wesley, 1998.

EC047 CELLULAR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS

1. INTRODUCTION TO WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS 3

History and evolution of mobile radio systems, Types of mobile wireless
services/systems – Cellular, WLL, Paging, Satellite systems, Standard, Future trends in
personal wireless systems.

2. CELLULAR CONCEPT AND SYSTEM DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS 8

Cellular concept and frequency reuse, Multiple Access Schemes, Channel assignment and
handoff, Interface and system capacity, Trunking and Erlang capacity calculations.

3. MOBILE RADIO PROPAGATION 10

Radio wave propagation issues in personal wireless systems, Propagation models,
Multipath fading and based and impulse models, Parameters of mobile multipath
channels, Antenna systems in mobile radio.

4. MODULATION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 12

Analog and digital modulation techniques, Performance of various modulation techniques
– Spectral efficiency, Error rate, Power Amplification, Equalization/Rake receiver
concepts, Diversity and Space-time processing, Speech coding and channel coding.

5. SYSTEM EXAMPLES AND DESIGN ISSUES 12

Multiple Access Techniques – FDMA, TDMA and CDMA systems, Operational systems,
Wireless networking, design issues in personal wireless systems.
 TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOK:
1. K. Feher, Wireless Digital Communication, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi,
1995.

REFERENCES:
1. T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communication; Principles and Practice, Prentice Hall,
NJ, 1996.
2. W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Communication Engineering; Theory and Application,
Second Edition, McGraw-Hill International, 1998.

ECO48 SATELLITE COMMUNICATION AND BROADCASTING

1. ORBIT DYNAMICS: 5
Kepler‟s Laws, Newton‟s law, orbital parameters, orbital perturbations, station keeping,
geo stationary and non Geo-stationary orbits, frequency allocation, frequency co-
ordination and regulatory services, sun transit outrages, limits of visibility, launching
vehicles and propulsion.

2. SPACE SEGMENT : 10

Space craft configuration, communication Payload and supporting subsystems, satellite

up link – down link, link power budget, c/no. G/T, Noise temperature, System noise,
propagation factors, rain and ice effects, polarization.

3. SATELLITE ACCESS: 12
Modulation and Multiplexing: Voice, Data, Video, Analog – digital transmission system,
Digital video Brocast, multiple access: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, Assignment Methods,
Spread Spectrum communication, compression – encryption

4. EARTH SEGMENT 8
Transmitters, receivers, Antennas, Terrestrial Interface, Tvro, Matv, Catv, Test
Equipments Measurements on G/T, C/No, EIRP, Antenna Gain.

5. SATELLITE APPLICATIONS : 10
INTELSAT Series, INSAT, VSAT, Facsimile system, Weather service, Remote sensing,
mobile satellite services: GSM, GPS, INMARSAT, LEO, MEO, Satellite Navigational
System, Direct Broadcast satellites (DBS), Direct to home Broadcast (DTH), Digital
audio broadcast (DAB), Business TV(BTV), GRAMSAT, Specialized services – E –mail,
Video conferencing, internet

TOTAL = 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Dennis Rody, „Satellite Communication‟, Regents/Prentice Hall, Englewood
 cliffs, New Jersey, 1989.
2. Wilbur L. Pritchard, Hendri G. Suyderhoud, Robert A. Nelson, „Satellite
Communication Systems Engineering‟, Prentice Hall, II Edition, 1993.

REFERENCE:
1. N.Agarwal, „Design of Geosynchronous Space Craft, Prentice Hall, 1986.
2. Bruce R. Elbert, „The Satellite Communication Applications‟ Hand Book, Artech
House Bostan London, 1997.
3. Tri T. Ha, „Digital Satellite Communication‟, II edition, 1990.
4. Emanuel Fthenakis, „Manual of Satellite Communications‟, McGraw Hill Book
Co., 1984.
5. Robert G. Winch, „Telecommunication Trans Mission Systems‟, McGraw-Hill
Book Co., 1983.
6. Brian Ackroyd, „World Satellite Communication and earth station Design‟, BSP
professional Books, 1990.
7. G.B.Bleazard, „ Introducing Satellite communications NCC Publication, 1985.

EC 049 RADAR AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS

1. RANGE AND EQUATION AND TYPES OF RADAR: 9

Range parameters, pulsed radars, signal to noise ratio, integration of pluses beam
parameters, system losses and propagation effects MTI, CW and pulse-Doppler radar,
Delay lines tracking radar, monopulse, sequential, simultaneous, conical scan and
monopulse trackers, Beacons.

2. TRANSMITTERS, RECEIVERS AND ANTENNAS: 9

Klystron, Magnetron, TWT amplifiers and ascillators, crossed fields devices, parabolic
cassegrainian, coefficient squares antennas, Radomes, feeds, receivers, performance
figures, Displays scope and PPI duplexers.

3. DETECTION OF RADAR SIGNALS IN NOISE: 9

MF, correlation detection, detector characteristics, automatic detection, CFAR receiver,
pulse compression and classification of targets with Radar.

4. PROPAGATION OF RADAR WAVES AND CLUTTER: 9

Plane earth and spherical earth problem , Refraction and diffraction, GTD Analysers,
Surface and Sea Clutter, Detection of targets, effects of weather on radar

5. RADAR TOPICS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS: 9

Synthetic Aperture, Over the Horizon radar, ARSR, ASR, Bistatic and monostatic radars,
LORAN, ILS, GCA, direction finder, VOR concepts, airborne droppler navigation.

TOTAL = 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. M.I. SKOINIK “Introduction to Radar Systems”, McGraw-Hill 1981.
2. F.E.Terman “Electronics and Radio Engineering” McGraw Hill Nagaraja “
Electronic Navigation”

EC050 ELECTROMAGNETIC INTEREFERENCE AND COMPATIBILITY

1. BASIC CONCEPTS 5
Definition of EMI and EMC, sources of EMI, natural and man-made, ESD, Victims of
EMI, EMI emission and susceptibility concepts, conducted and Radiated, case histories,
Radiation Hazards to humans.

2. EMI STANDARDS AND REGULATION: 5

EMI standards and specifications, unit of EMI, National and International EMI
Standardizing Organizations – IEC, ANSI, FCC, CISPR, BIS, ENSTDS, Emission and
Susceptibility standards and specifications, Civilian and military.

3. COUPLING MECHANISM: 10
Intra and Inter system EMI, Common Mode coupling Differential mode coupling, field to
cable coupling, cable to cable coupling, Antenna to Antenna coupling, ground loop
coupling.

4. EMI TEST METHODS AND INSTRUMENTATION: 15

EMI test cites, shield chamber, shielded Anechoic chamber, Open area sites, TEM cell,
EMI test receivers, Spectrum Analyzer, Transient EMI test wave simulators, EMI
coupling Networks, line impedance stabilizations Network, feed through capacitors,
antennas, current probes, calibration factors of sensors, MIL-STD test methods, civilian
STD test methods.

5. EMI MITIGATION TECHNIQUES (EMC) 10

Shielding Theory, choice of materials and thickness, shielding of joints with gaskets,
bonding, grounding, cable grounding, filtering, transient EMI control devices and
applications, PCB design: Zoning, component selection, routing.

TOTAL = 45

TEXT BOOK :
1. Clayton R. Paul, “Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility”, John Wiley
sons, 1992.

REFERENCES:
1. Keiser “Principles of Electromagnetic Compatibility”, Artech House, III Edition,
1994.
2. Henry ott. Noise reduction Techniques in Electronic system, John Wiley and
Sons, 1988.
3. William. G. Duff, “Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Compatibility”, ICT, Inc,
Gaineseille, 1988.
4. Don White consultant incorporates ”Handbook of EMI/EMC” Vol. I-V, Vol.
1.1985.
ECO51 ENGINEERING ACOUSTICS

1. BASIC CONCEPTS AND ACCOUSTICS: 10

Plane waves and spherical waves, parameters intensity, pressure and velocity, Specific
Acoustic impedance, Radiation resistance, Strength of Radiators piston impedance
functions, Helmoltzs Resonator, Basic concept of sonar.

2. SPEECH, HEARING AND NOISE : 8

Introduction Voice mechanism, Acoustic Power output of speech, Mechanism of hearing,
Threshold of Audibility, subjective characteristics of sound – loudness, Pitch, Timbre,
beads, Aural Harmonics and combination tones, Masking by pure tones and noise,
binaural localization, sound level meters, working principle.

3. TRANSDUCERS AND AUDIIO SYSTEMS: 12

Introduction, Direct radiator loud speaker, cone speaker, loud speaker cabinets, horn loud
speaker, measurement of pressure, Response and acoustic power output, Microphones,
Principles of working, Pressure microphones, carbon condenser, piezoelectric and
moving coil electro dynamic microphones. Pressure gradient microphones, Acoustical
reciprocity theorem, Magnetic disc and tape recording, mono and stereo recordings film
recording, analog and Digital system.

4. ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS : 8
Introduction, Sabines formula for Reverberation, Measurement of Reverberation time,
classical ray theory of absorption co-efficient in live and dead rooms. Types of absorbing
materials and absorption co-efficient, sound in enclosures, calculation of normal modes
and frequencies, transmission loss through walls between enclosures.

5. UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS 7
Introduction velocity of around and sound transmission losses in sea water, Refraction
phenomena, influence of surface reflections on transmission loss and bottom reflection
phenomena, Electro Acoustic transducers, Magneto stricture and piezo electric
transducer, Hydrophones, Sonar, principles of working.

TOTAL = 45

TEXT BOOK:
1. L.E. Kinsler and A.R.Frey, “Fundamentals of Acoustics” Wiley Eastern,1988.

REFERENCES :
1. Olson, “Acoustical Engineering”, Van Nostrand, 1957.
2. Leo L.Beranack, “Acoustics”, McGraw-Hill, 1954.
3. Leon Can, “Under Water Acoustics”, Wiley Interscience, 1970.
EC052 INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK:

1. ISDN – STANDARDS AND SERVICES: 9

Review of switching technologies and OSI protocol architecture, ISDN channels, access
interfaces, functional devices and standards, ISDN bearer services and teleservice
attribute, Broadband services.

2. ISDN PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE AND SIGNALING : 9

Physical layer protocol, D-channel datalink layer and layer 3 protocols, Network
signaling systems, SS7 protocol overview and services, ISDN products, Switches,
Multiplexers, Terminal adapters, ISDN chip sets.

3. BROAD BAND ISDN: 9

Frame Relay – concepts, protocols, applications and products, asynchronous transfer
mode – concepts, protocols, application and products, switched multi megabit data
service, Internet protocol over ISDN frame relay and ATM.

4. NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT : 9

ATM traffic and congestion control, Traffic management framework, control mechanism
and attributes, ABR traffic management

5. NETWORK PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ESTIMATION : 9

Queueing analysis, single server and multi server queues, Networks of Queues,
Estimating model parameters, Self-similar traffic – performance implication, modeling
and estimation

TOTAL = 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Gary C. Kesslar and Peter Southwick, “ISDN – concepts, facilities and services”,
McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition, 1997.
2. William Stallings, “High Speed Networks-TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles”,
Prentice Hall Inc., 1998.

REFERENCE:
1. Balaji Kumar, “Broad Band Communications” McGraw-Hill, 1995.

ECO53 INTERNET AND JAVA

1. INTERNET WORKING WITH TCP/IP: 9

Review of network technologies, internet addressing address resolution protocols(ARP
/RARP), routing IP datagrams, Reliable stream transport service(TCP) TCP / IP over
ATM networks, Internet applications – E-mail, Telnet, FTP, NFS, Internet traffic
Management.

2. INTERNET ROUTING: 9
Concepts of graph theory, routing protocols, Distance vector protocols (RIP), link state
protocol (OSPP), path vector protocols (BGP and IDRP), routing for high – speed
multimedia traffic, Multicasting, Resource reservation (RSVP), IP switching.

3. WORLD WIDE WEB: 9

Http Protocol, Web browsers Netscape, Internet explorer, Web sites and web pages
design, HTML, XML Dynamic HTML, CGI.

4. JAVA PROGRAMMING: 9
Languages features, Classes, Object and methods, Sub classing and dynamic binding,
Multithreading. Overview of class library, Object method serialization, Remote method
invocation, Java script.

5. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS 9
E-Commerce, Network operating Systems, Web Design case studies.

TOTAL = 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Douglass E. Comer, “ Internetworking with TCP/IP”, Vol. I: 3rd Edition, Prentice
Hall of India, 1999.
2. Eric Ladd and Jim 0‟Donnell, “Using HTML 4, XML and Java 1.2”, Que
Platinum edition, Prentice Hall of India, 1999.

REFERENCES:
1. William Stallings, “High Speed Networks”, Prentice Hall inc., 1998.
2. Margaret Levine young “Internet: The complete Reference”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
1999.
3. Balaguruswamy. E “Programming with Java, A Primer”, Second edition, Tata
McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1999.

EC054 TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCHING AND NETWORKS

1. EVOLUTION OF TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCHING AND

CIRCUITS 6
Evolution of Public Switched Telecommunication Networks Strowger exchange,
Crossbar exchange, Stored programme exchange Digital exchange – Basic Tele
communication equipments – Telephone handset, Hrbrid circuit, Echo suppressors and
cancellors, PCM coders, Modems and Relays.

2. ELECTRONIC SWITCHING 9
Circuit Switching, Message switching, Centralized stored programme switching, Time
switching, Spare switching, Combination switching – Digital switching system hardware
configuration, Switching system software, Organization, Switching system call
processing software, Hardware software integration.

3. TELECOMMUNICATION SIGNALLING AND TRAFFIC 9

Channel associated signaling, Common channel signaling, SS7 signaling protocol, SS7
protocol architecture, Concept of Telecommunication traffic, Grade of service, Modeling
switching systems, Blocking models and Delay systems.

4. INTEGRATED DIGITAL NETWORKS 9

Subscriber loop characteristics, Local access wire line and wire less PCM / TDM carrier
standards transmission line codes, Digital multiplexing techniques, Synchronous,
Asynchronous, Plesiocronous multiplexing techniques, SONET / SDH, Integrated Digital
Network (IDN) environment – Principles of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
– Cellular Mobile Communication Principles.

5. DATA NET WORKS 2

Data transmission in PSTN – Connection oriented and Connection less protocols – packet
switching – ISO-OSI architecture-Satellite based data networks – Multiple access
techniques – LAN, WAN – standards – TCP / IP – Internet – Principle of ATM networks.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Viswanathan. T, “Telecommunication Switching System and Networks”, Prentice
Hall of India Ltd., 1994.
2. Behrouz Forouzan, “Introduction to Data Communication and Networking”,
McGraw-Hill, 1998.

REFERENCES
1. L.S.Lawton, “Integrated Digital Networks, Galgotta Publication Pvt., Ltd., New
Delhi, 1996.
2. Syed R. Ali, “Digital Switching Systems”, McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, 1998.

EC055 TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM MODELING AND

SIMULATION

1. SIMULATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES AND RANDOM PROCESS 9

Generation of random number and sequences, Gaussian and uniform random numbers,
Correlated random sequences, Testing of random numbers generators, Stationary and
uncorrelatedness, Goodness of fit test.

2. MODELING OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 9

Radio frequency and optical sources, Analog and Digital signals, Communication
channel and models, Free space channels, Multipath channel and discrete channel noise
and interference.

3. ESTIMATION OF PERFORMANCE MEASURE FOR SIMULATION 9

Quality of estimator, Estimation of SNR, Probability density function and bit error rate,
Monte Carlo method, Importance sampling method, Extreme value theory.
4. SIMULATION AND MODELING METHODOLOGY 9
Simulation environment, Modeling considerations, Performance evaluation techniques,
Error source simulation Validation.

5. CASE STUDIES 9
Simulations of QAM digital radio link in a fading environment, Light wave
communication link and satellite system.

TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. MC.Jeruchim, P.Balaban and K.Samshanmugam, “Simulation of Communication
Systems, Plenum press, New York, 1992.
2. Averill.M.Law and W.David Kelton, “Simulation Modeling and Analysiso,
McGraw-Hill, 1991.

REFERENCES:
1. Geoffrey Gorden, “System Simulation”, Prentice Hall of India, 2nd Edition, 1992.
2. W.Turin, “Performance Analysis of Digital Communication Systems”, Computer
Science Press, New York, 1990.
3. Jerry banks and John S.Carson, “Discrete Event System Simulation”, Prentice
Hall of India, 1984.

EC056 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

1. DIGITAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTAL 9

Elements of digital image processing systems, Elements of Visual perception, Image
sampling and quantization, Matrix and Singular Value representation of discrete images.

2. IMAGE TRANSFORMS 9
1D DFT, 2D DFT, Cosine, Sine Hadamard, Hear, Slant, KL, SVD transform and their
properties.

3. IMAGE ENHANCEMENT 9
Histogram – Modification and specification techniques Image smoothing, Image
sharpening, generation of spatial masks from frequency domain specification, Nonlinear
filters, Homomorphic filtering, false color, Pseudocolor and color image processing.

4. IMAGE RESTORATION AND RECOGNITION 9

Image degradation models, Unconstrained and Constrained restoration, inverse filtering,
Least mean square filter, Pattern Classes, optimal statistical classifiers, Neural networks
and associated training methods and use of neural networks in image processing.

5. IMAGE COMPRESSION 9
Runlength, Huffman coding, Shift codes, arithmetic coding, bit plane coding, transform
coding, JPEG Standard, wavelet transform, predictive techniques, Block truncation
coding schemes, Facet modeling.
 TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Anil K.Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, Prentice Hall of India,
1997.
2. Rafel C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing”, Addison
Wesley, 1993.

REFERENCES:
1. William K. Pratt, “Digital Image Processing”, John Wiley, NJ, 1987.
2. Sid Ahmed M.A., “Image Processing Theory, Algorithm and Architectures”,
McGraw-Hill, 1995.
3. Umbaugh, “Computer Vision”.

EC057 ADVANCED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

1. DISCRETE RANDOM PROCESS 9

Discrete random process, Expertation, Variance and Co-variance, Uniform, Ganssian and
Exponentially distributed noise, Hillbert space and inner product for discrete signals,
Energy of discrete signals, Parseval‟s theorem, Wiener Khintchine relation, power
spectral density, Sum decomposition theorem, Spectral factorization theorem.

2. SPECTRUM ESTIMATION 9
Response of linear discrete systems to random inputs – sample auto – correlation –
periodogram. Non – parametric methods of spectral estimation – Correlation method,
WELCH method – Quality of correlation and periodogram estimators. Model based
approach to spectrum estimation. AR, MA, ARMA models. Tule – Walker method.

3. LINEAR ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION 9

ML estimate – Efficiency of estimator, Cramer Rao bound - LMS criterion. Wiener filter
– Discrete Wiener Hopf equations – Recursive estimator – Kalman estimator – Linear
prediction, Analysis and synthesis filters, Normal equations – Levinson resursion, Lattice
realization.

4. ADAPTIVE FILTERS 8
Principles of adaptive filter – FIR adaptive filter – Newton‟s Steepest descent algorithm –
Derivation of first order adaptive filter – Widrow Hoff LMS adaptation algorithms –
Adaptive noise cancellation, Adaptive equalizer, Adaptive echo cancellors.

5. ADVANCE TRANSFORM TECHNIQUES 10

2-D Fourier and Discrete Fourier transform – Applications to image smoothing and
sharpening – Series expansion of discrete time signals – Local Fourier expansion – Two
channel filter banks – Multi resolution concept, Wavelet construction, Filter banks for
wavelets – Continuous and discrete wavelet transforms – Application to signal
compression.

TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOK:
1. Sopoches J.Orfanidis, “Optimum Signal Processing”, McGraw-Hill, 1990.
2. Coifman R.R, Daubechies I, Mallat S., Meyer Y., “Wavelets and their
Applications”, Jones and Bertel Publishers, 1992.

REFERENCES:
1. James V.Candy, “Signal Processing”, McGraw-Hill, 1988.
2. Mischa Schwartz, “Leonard Shaw, Signal Processing Discrete Spectral Analysis
Detection and Estimation”, McGraw-Hill, 1990.

GE037 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR)

UNIT I 5
Introduction – Invention and Creativity – Intellectual Property (IP) – Importance –
Protection of IPR – Basic types of property (i. Movable Property ii. Immovable Property
and iii. Intellectual Property).

UNIT II 10
IP – Patents – Copyrights and related rights – Trade Marks and rights arising from
Trademark registration – Definitions – Industrial Designs and Integrated circuits –
Protection of Geographical Indications at national and International levels – Application
Procedures.

UNIT III 10
International convention relating to Intellectual Property – Establishment of WIPO –
Mission and Activities – History – General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT).

UNIT IV 10
Indian Position Vs WTO and Strategies – Indian IPR legislations – commitments to
WTO-Patent Ordinance and the Bill – Draft of a national Intellectual Property Policy –
Present against unfair competition.

UNIT V 10
Case Studies on – Patents (Basumati rice, turmeric, Neem, etc.) – Copyright and related
rights – Trade Marks – Industrial design and Integrated circuits – Geographic indications
– Protection against unfair competition.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOK
1. Subbaram N.R. “ Handbook of Indian Patent Law and Practice “, S. Viswanathan
(Printers and Publishers) Pvt. Ltd., 1998.

REFERENCES
1. Eli Whitney, United States Patent Number : 72X, Cotton Gin, March 14, 1794.
2. Intellectual Property Today : Volume 8, No. 5, May 2001, [www.iptoday.com].
3. Using the Internet for non-patent prior art searches, Derwent IP Matters, July
2000. [www.ipmatters.net/features/000707_gibbs.html.
GE038 INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND SOCIETY

UNIT I 9
Historical Background – Constituent Assembly of India – Philosophical foundations of
the Indian Constitution – Preamble – Fundamental Rights – Directive Principles of State
Policy – Fundamental Duties – Citizenship – Constitutional Remedies for citizens.

UNIT II 9
Union Government – Structures of the Union Government and Functions – President –
Vice President – Prime Minister – Cabinet – Parliament – Supreme Court of India –
Judicial Review.

UNIT III 9
State Government – Structure and Functions – Governor – Chief Minister – Cabinet –
State Legislature – Judicial System in States – High Courts and other Subordinate Courts.

UNIT IV 9
Indian Federal System – Center – State Relations – President‟s Rule – Constitutional
Amendments – Constitutional Functionaries - Assessment of working of the
Parliamentary System in India.

UNIT V 9
Society : Nature, Meaning and definition; Indian Social Structure; Castle, Religion,
Language in India; Constitutional Remedies for citizens – Political Parties and Pressure
Groups; Right of Women, Children and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and
other Weaker Sections.

TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS
1. Durga Das Basu, “ Introduction to the Constitution of India “, Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi.
2. R.C.Agarwal, “ (1997) Indian Political System “, S.Chand and Company, New
Delhi.
3. Maciver and Page, “ Society: An Introduction Analysis “, Mac Milan India Ltd.,
New Delhi.
4. K.L.Sharma, “ (1997) Social Stratification in India: Issues and Themes “,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

REFERENCES
1. Sharma, Brij Kishore, “ Introduction to the Constitution of India:, Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi.
2. U.R.Gahai, “ (1998) Indian Political System “, New Academic Publishing House,
Jalaendhar.
3. R.N. Sharma, “ Indian Social Problems “, Media Promoters and Publishers Pvt.
Ltd.
4. Yogendra Singh, “ (1997) Social Stratification and Charge in India “, Manohar,
New Delhi.
HS053 COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ENGINEERS 2 0 2 100

UNIT 1: 8 + 14
ORAL COMMUNICATION – Practical use of language in simulated real – life
situations through role playing – social skills – interaction with employers, peers and
subordinates – Group dynamics – Listening techniques – Phonological aspects of
language use – pronunciation, stress and intonation.

Introducing oneself and others, narrating events – Making telephonic conversation –

Making requests, Asking questions, Making recommendations using modal verbs,
Expressing causal relations with suitable discourse markers, Giving instructions using
imperatives, Expressing purposes and functions, obligation and preferences, Accepting
offers and Counselling, Interpreting advertisements, Describing processes using
sequential expressions.

UNIT 2: 6+6
Presenting one‟s ideas at meetings and conferences, Making extempore talks, Public
speaking, Body language, Strategic competence, Use of audio – visual aids and
multimedia presentations.

UNIT 3: 8+0
Technical Writing – the structure of organised writing – paragraph writing, coherence,
cohesion (use of Discourse Markers) and punctuation, Use of titles, nonverbal devices –
Layout – Revision strategies – Reading techniques.
Letter Writing: - Personal/Informal letters: Letters to family members and friends
Business / Formal letters: Letters thanking the recipients, announcing functions,
extending invitations, congratulating associates on important occasions, letters of
application (Resumes), apology and complaint, letters to the editor.

UNIT 4: 8+0
Report Writing: - persuasive, explanatory, argumentative and informative, Writing
agenda, minutes, memos, project proposals and checklists.

UNIT 5 10 + 0
Grammar - study of grammatical items in contexts. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
comparative adjectives, adverbs, gerund, prepositions, voice, tenses, „if clauses, direct
and indirect speech (reporting verbs), concord Vocabulary – Synonyms, antonyms,
homonyms, homophones, hyponyms, affixes, reference words, phrasal verbs and
prepositional phrases.

L: 40 P: 20 TOTAL : 60

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Doff, Adrian and Jones, Christopher, Language in Use: Classroom Book
(Intermediate level). Cambridge: CUP. 1994 (2 audio cassettes).
2. Dr.V.Chellammal, Learning to Communicate – a resource book for Engineers and
Technologists. Coimbatore: Kamakhya Publications 2002 (1 audio cassette)
 REFERENCES:
1. Sung, Abraham. 330 more Model Letters for all occasions Malaysia-Minerva
Publications. 2002.
2. Bentley, T.J. Report Writing in Business: The Effective Communication of
Information. New Delhi: Viva Books Pvt.Ltd., 2001.
3. Vivanilam, J.V. More Effective Communication: A Manual for Professionals.
New Delhi: Response Books. 2000
4. Michael, V.P.Communication and Research for Management. Mumbai: Himalaya
Publishing House 2001.
5. Nauheim, Ferd. How to Write Business Letters. New Delhi; Crest Publishing
House 2000.
6. Mohan, Krishna, Meera Banerji. Developing Communication Skills. New Delhi:
Macmillan 1991.
7. Denny, Richard. Communicate to Win. New Delhi: Kogan Page 2002.