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    easy st.com SECTION A: ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS I Answer any TWO questions from this section. 1 (a) (i) State two advantages of a silicon controlled switch (SCS) over a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR). <(™ trac’ peal eel Vacate Se Centon (ii) Figure 1 shows a circuit diagram of an alarm system employing a silicon controlled switch. Describe its operation. (6 marks) +12V (Temperature Light or resistor ) S 12v Fig. 1 (b) With the aid of a circuit diagram, describe the operation of a discrete-component bistable multivibrator. - (roe (8 marks) (©) An LED has the following ratings: power output Ps = 0.42 mW, forward current 1, 80 mA and forward voltage V, = 1.22V. It is connected in series with a current limiting resistor and supplied from a SV source. The light from the LED is projected onto a flat. surface 2.54 cm away and forms a divergence angle of 0.524 radians. Determine the: @ value of the current limiting resistor; (ii) area illuminated by the LED; (iii) incident irradiance at the flat surface. (6 marks) 2. (@) — @_ State the two conditions necessary for osclations to be sustained in a sinusoidal oscillator. oy So Gi) With the aid of a circuit diagram, describe the operation of a blocking oscillator. (10 marks) 2521/203, 2602/202 2 2601/202, 2603/202 Oct/Nov. 2016 easytvet.com (®) _ Anamplifier has a gain A = 100, input resistance Ri = 2K.Q and output resistance Ro=40 KQ. Determine the following when it is connected as a voltage-series negative feedback amplifier with a feedback factor 8 = Yo: A. - W8&— wo - @ gains MTR” Oe ON Gi) imputresistancey ig - Gii) output resistance; (iv) reduction in distortion; (v) percentage change in gain with feedback if the gain without feedback changes by 20%. (10 marks) 3. (@)_—@)_Deefine the following with respect to operational amplifiers: () input offset voltage; Wis 5 (Il) slew rate; — vere aA Crnege 4 Soe (I) common-mode voltage gain. (ii) Figure 2 shows a circuit diagram of a first-order low-pass filter. Determine the: () voltage gain; Gs (I) cutofTfrequency. > tp — - f “tee (7 marks) Fig. 2 2 (b) Table 1 shows the data of the gain/frequency characteristic of a two-stage tuned radio frequency amplifier. (Plot, on the same axis, the gain/frequency curves for: © single stage; (I) two stages. (ii) From the curves, determine the bandwidth of the single stage and the two stages. (7 marks) 2521/203, 2602/202 3 Turn over 2601/202, 2603/202 Oct/Nov. 2016 easytvet.com uw Table 1 C7) ° Frequency 930 | 960 | 970 | 980 | 990 | 1000 | 1010 | 1020 ] 1030 | 1040 | 1050 (G16 (6 Gain oft stige [198 [245 [3.12 [447] 707 | 10 | 707 |aav | au | ans Te 1s 3% [I> bq Gain of 2 stages | 3.92 | 5.91 [9.73 [1998] 50 ] 100 | 30 [iose} 975 | sar | aor : Be (©) Show that the maximum theoretical efficiency of a class-B power amplifier is 78.54%, (6 marks) fw 8 a 21a (G '6 1G SECTION B: DIGITAL ELECTRONICS FRAA Peet <2 ish tf 8 Answer any THREE questions from this section. Wo ny Cone 4. 4S Perform the following number system conversion: ss ae 'C te Wet He,t tyio OOF Flo GEE 10 (@/b6 @ @ 1011101001, to decimal; bez) LL At fs era Dele (i) EBSA, to decimal PIQIAIALF GF IAL © (6 /6 14 40 sin O bee 32 0 ¢ 0or | (6 marks) 3671s 186 Ig err v6 () Poi iwi ah os i te en rF a q ie ; @ 1011, x 101, ‘i GE Gi) 1A8,. +678, Tie a aE an in & mer 6 marks) 9 (© (Table 2 shows the ASC11 code for alphanumeric charact’® Obtain fa (code for the letter e; Al g z olllool (decimal number represented by the code 011001. INS goon ft ov 1 \o 2 BFF 618 7 ele? % Oo G00 * tra x < ater a eae & ae 0 1A! roll oe YY ofr arn es Toso © 7 VON MB ent aT nee 8 hah 88 | . F stl ho io,1° ! oy t i 2521/203, 2602/202 4 o\litoloor 20 2601/202, 2603/202 OctNov. 2016 fre 0109010! easytvet.com Table 2 o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 o [NUL DLE sP_0 @ =P »? 1 |son per: 1 A Q a gq 2|sx pa * 2 B R wb ¢ 3 |erx po 3 Cc Ss ec s 4 |eor ps os 4 dD T a@ et 5, |ENQ NAK % 5 E U © U 6 |ACcK SYN & 6 F V ff v 7 [BEL ETB 7 6 Wos w| gosco0u) s |ps can ¢ 8 H x bx | Qipqucloe 9 |ur EM ») 9 T Y iy Lee ETIOO A |tF sup) 32 j 2 B |vr gsc 5 Kw fT k c [RF FS oo a a p |cr as = M J om 3 elso RS. > N A a wn F|si_us 7? 0 o DEL (i) Add 647,, to 492,, in the 8421 BCD code. 4 marks) SX (@)_— @_ Deine the following with respect to edge-triggered flip-flops: op 15 tecar to oFERTE (set-up time; m5 Gleetme ren HWE ts met 10 We bere othe I) hold-up time,-1s ke See Seen 4% fig (ii) With the aid of a logic diagram, describe the operation of a master-slave JK flip-flop when the clock is at logic 1 and makes a transition to logic 0. Assume the circuit is initially reset and thei at (marks) weasel eee 7 SS Gi) Figure 3 shows a logic diagram of a binary counter. Describe its operation for three clock pulses and draw the timing diagrams. (b) ( _ State two applications of binary (8 marks) za] 7 Q Une Clee SY \ cre fre Fig.3 (©) Draw the state diagram of a 4-bit Johnsons counter assuming that all the stages are in the '0' state. (3 marks) 2521/203, 2602/202 5 Turn over 2601/202, 2603/202 Oct./Nov. 2016 if (@) Using Boolean algebra, simplify the equation (B+C)(A+B+O)(ABO) easytvet.com (5 marks) (&) digital vending machine is to dispense beverage at a time as indicated: “~~ Teaandmik = 7 M ~> ¥U naman ~~ Coffee and milk C1 —> ¥ m—— ~~“ Teaandsugr = 7 S —>W— oo ~~ ftee and stigam,< -S —=> x A ne

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