Part A

Unit-1
SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES AND APPLICATIONS
7 hours
p-n junctiondiode, Characteristics and Parameters, Diode approximations, DC load
line,Temperature dependence of p-n characteristics, AC equivalent circuits, Zenerdiodes Halfwave diode rectifier, Ripple factor, Full-wave diode rectifier,Other full-wave circuits, Shunt
capacitor filter - Approximate analysis ofcapacitor filters, Power supply performance, Zener
diode voltage regulators,Numerical examples as applicable.
Unit-2
TRANSISTORS
6 hours
Bipolar Junction transistor, Transistor Voltages andcurrents, amplification, Common Base,
Common Emitter and CommonCollector Characteristics, DC Load line and Bias Point.
Unit-3
BIASING METHODS
6 hours
Base Bias, Collector to Base Bias, Voltage dividerBias, Comparison of basic bias circuits, Bias
circuit design, Thermal Stabilityof Bias Circuits (Qualitative discussions only).
Unit-4
OTHER DEVICES
6 hours
Silicon Controlled Rectifier (S.C.R), SCR ControlCircuits, More S.C.R applications; Unijunction
transistor, UJT applications,Junction Field effect Transistors(Exclude Fabrication and
Packaging), JFETCharacteristics, FET Amplifications, Numerical examples as applicable.
Part B
Unit-5
AMPLIFIERS & OSCILLATORS
6 hours
Decibels and Half power points, SingleStage CE Amplifier and Capacitor coupled two stage
CEamplifier(Qualitative discussions only), Series voltage negative feedback andAdditional
effects of Negative feed back(Qualitative discussions only), TheBarkhausen Criterion for
Oscillations, BJT RC phase shift oscillator, Hartley,Colpitts and crystal oscillator ( Qualitative
discussions only) Numericalproblems as applicable.
Unit-6

INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS

6 hours
Ideal OPAMP,Saturable property of an OP AMP, Inverting and Non Inverting OPAMPcircuits,
Need for OPAMP, Characteristics and applications - voltagefollower, addition, subtraction,
integration, differentiation; Numericalexamples as applicable Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO).
Unit-7
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS-NUMBER SYSTEMS
7 hours
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: Block diagram, Modulation, RadioSystems, Superhetrodyne
Receivers, Numerical examples as applicableNUMBER SYSTEMS: Introduction, decimal
system, Binary, Octal andHexadecimal number systems, addition and subtraction, fractional
number,Binary Coded Decimal numbers.
Unit-8
DIGITAL LOGIC
7 hours
Boolean algebra, Logic gates, Half-adder, Full-adder,Parallel Binary adder.