Fall 2021 ESC 201A

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Fall 2021 ESC 201A

Introduction to Electronics

The Course Plan

S. Sundar Kumar Iyer

Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Outline

• Logistics

• Course Objective

• Topics Discussed in Course

• Reference Books

• Grading scheme

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On-Line Classes
• All classes are to held on-line

• Discussion Session will be on the zoom link sent to you:

https://iitk-ac-in.zoom.us/j/96859903105?pwd=R250dUVJNldrTWdyR3ZYaCt1cGZKdz09

Meeting ID: 968 5990 3105

Passcode: 690652

• Permits participants with Zoom Login using IITK Email ID

• Tutorial links from tutors will be posted on mooKIT

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The Schedule
Asynchronous Classes
Lectures to be posted on mooKIT every week

Weekly Discussion Hour: Monday 8 AM to 8:50 AM

Weekly Tutorial Hour: Thursday 8 AM to 8:50 AM

Back up meeting slots to be used on a need basis:

Wednesdays and Fridays 8 AM to 8:50 AM
[First week, additional meeting on Wednesday, 4th August, 2021]

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Tutorial Plan
Tutorial time: Thursdays from 8 AM to 8:50 AM

• Practice Problem
8 AM to 8:15 AM
• Discussion with tutor on-line
8:15 AM to 8:50 AM

Attendance credit given only to students attending

in their assigned session

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The Instructors
• Overall Course Coordination
Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer sskiyer@iitk.ac.in

• Lab Coordination
Prof. K.S. Venkatesh venkats@iitk.ac.in

• To be ably assisted by Tutors and TAs

– Each tutorial session has one tutor assisted by two TAs
– There are additinoal tutors and TAs to help with other course activities
– Support for the labs connected to the course

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Tutor and TA Assignment (1)

Section Tutor Teaching Assistants (TA)
C1 Shivendra Singh Parihar Shibu kumar Parul Sonkar
C2 Varsha Lohani Sriram Suresh Praveen kumar
C3 Ankita Kumari Pradeep Kumar Maharana Raman Sachan
C4 Saurabh Shukla Abhishek Kumar Nigam Kudumula Ramu
C5 Vaishnavi Bhope Aditya Ratne Richa Bharti
C6 Rahul Kumar Jaiswal Ankit Kumar Dhaker Sachin Kumar Singh
C7 Pandava Sudharshan Babu Arpit Dongre Saksham
C8 Rashmi Kushwaha Ch. Pavan Kalyan shivam singh
C9 Gyanajyoti Routray D.S.Bharath Shubham Kalange
C10 Shraddha Tripathi Dhananjay Kumar Smriti Yadav

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Tutor and TA Assignment (2)

Section Tutor Teaching Assistants (TA)
C11 Aditya Singh Dhananjay Kumar Pandey Sri Durga Sasi Pavan Thota
C12 Prof. G Rajshekhar Jadumoni Hujuri Utkarsh Adya
C13 Prof. Shilpi Gupta Jayakrishnasai Vipin kumar
C14 Prof. Twinkle Tripathy Kailash Kumawat Anubhav Kumar
C15 Dr. A Roy Azmeera Kiran Kumar Saurabh Sahu
C16 Prof. Amit Verma Kolla Mohan Vamsi Sharang Dhar Patel
C17 Prof. Rohit Budhiraja Viroopaksha Lingampally Pandarlapalli Sunil Kumar Reddy
C18 Dr. P Dwivedi Manish Nagar Md. Salim Equbal
C19 Mr. Rakesh Roshan Musane Ajit Dnyanoba Munoon Jain
C20 Prof. Jaleel Akhtar Nitesh Singh Shishir Srivastava
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Tutor and TA Assignment (3)

Tutor Assisting in Lab Prof. Peruru Subrahmanya Swamy

Back up Tutors Prof. NK Verma

Prof. Aditya Jagannatham
Prof. Yogesh Chauhan
Dr. Imran Ahamed

TAs supporting Instructor Prajnay Patra

Harsh Kadole

Back up TAs Abhishek Ranjan

Himanshu Mewara
Ravikant Yadav
Thishyan Raj T

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Course Objective
• The course offers an introduction to the basic principles
of electrical circuit analysis and exposes students to
electronic devices and analog and digital electronic
circuits

• To provide a panoramic view of the relevance and

dependence on other branches of engineering and
sciences with concepts encountered in electronics

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Topics To Be Discussed
Electrical Circuits – Circuit Analysis (Nodal, Mesh, Superposition, Thevenin’s
and Norton’s Theorem)
– Transient analysis of RC, RL and RLC circuits
– Sinusoidal steady state analysis of RC, RL and RLC circuits
– Transfer function and frequency response of RC, RL and
RLC circuits.
Analog Circuits – Diode and diode circuits
– Power supply
– MOSFETs and simple MOSFET circuits
– Operational Amplifier circuits and waveform generators
Digital Circuits – Logic gates, logic minimization
– Combinational circuits
– Sequential circuits, Flip flops, Counters, shift registers
– Data convertors (ADC, DAC)

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Some Reference Book

• Engineering Circuit Analysis by Hayt, Kemmerly, Durbin,
7th edition, Tata McGraw Hill.

• Microelectronics Circuits, by Sedra, Smith, Chandorkar

7th edition, Oxford University Press

• Digital Principles and Applications, by Leach, Malvino,

Saha, 8th edition, Tata McGraw Hill.

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Grading Scheme
• Lab component 15%
• Attendance (Discussion & Tutorial) 5%
• Quiz (best two of three) 10%
• Midsem Exam 30%
• Final Exam 40%

But no evaluation is worth the effort unless the examinees exhibit integrity*.

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* Integrity: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
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Am I dealing with this India?

Reported in Times of India on June 6, 2016

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/darpan-singh-blog/how-and-why-students-in-bihar-cheat-and-it-may-not-stop-soon/

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Or am I dealing with this India?

Mr. Satyendra Dubey
1994 B Tech CE from IIT Kanpur
IES (Indian Engineering Services) officer

Gave up his life for public integrity

The Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award given
out by IIT Kanpur annually to an IIT alumnus
who displays the highest levels of professional
integrity in upholding human values
Satyendra Dubey
https://iitk.ac.in/dora/profile/Mr-Satyendra-Kumar-Dubey/

The Choice is Yours!

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My Expectation From You

• Try and enjoy the subject your are studying
– Some initial effort is needed to start to enjoy it

– It will well worth the effort

– The subject matter is known to have enthralled many in the past

• We expect the highest integrity from you

– Use the exams to gauge how much you have learnt

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