Current Affairs for IBPS 2012

1. Muslim League observed the Direct Action Day on?
1946 August 16.

2. When did British parliament pass Indian Independence Act?
    1947 July 18

3. National Census Day is observed on?
    February 9.

4. Who is the first Acting president of Indian National Congress?

    Hakkim Ajmal Khan.
   He was an Indian physician specialising in the field of South Asian traditional Unani and freedom fighter. A close associate of Gandhi, he participated in the Non-cooperation movement, led the Khilafat Movement, and became the fifth Muslim President of the Indian National Congress during the 1921 session held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Khan was one of the founders of the Jamia Millia Islamia University, becoming its first chancellor in 1920 and remaining in office until his death in 1927.

5. Which is the heaviest gaseous element?
    Radon.

6. Which country celebrates its official national day on January 26?
    Australia.
  Australia Day (previously known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day, and ANA Day) is the official national day of Australia. Australia's national day is held on 26th January in recognition of the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet, a group of 11 ships that sailed from England to establish a colony in Australia.

7. The book 'Why Socialism' is written by?
    Jayaprakash Narayan

8. The National High Way "NH-48" connects between?
    Bangalore - Mangalapuram

9. Which is the first country to receive loan from World Bank?
    France.

10. State fish of Kerala is?
    Karimeen. (The green chromide)
    The green chromide (Etroplus suratensis) is a species of cichlid fish from freshwater and brackish water in southern India and Sri Lanka. It is also known as the pearlspot or karimeen in Malayalam and koral in Bengali.

11. Who was the Indian Viceroy at the time of formation of Muslim League?
    Lord Minto.

12. The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna carries a cash prize of
    Rs.7, 50,000 / -

13. Who is the First European Secretary General of United Nations?
    Trygve Lie

14. Who is the last ruler of slave dynasty?
    Muiz ud din Qaiqabad.

15. Who founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha?
    M G Ranade (Mahadev Govind Ranade).

16. By which Article of the Constitution of India, the Presidents Rule is enabled?
    Article 356.

17. Which has maximum area covered under forest among all the other states in India?
    Madhya Pradesh.

18. The battle of 1556 is known as?
    Second Battle of Panipat.
    The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly called Hemu, the Hindu king who was ruling North India from Delhi, and the army of Akbar, on November 5, 1556.It was a decisive victory for Akbar's generals Khan Zaman I and Bairam Khan.

19. Which period in India is considered as the Plan Holiday?
    1966-69.

20. How many types of galaxies are there?
    Three.
    Galaxies come in three main types: ellipticals, spirals, and irregulars.

21. Rajya Samacharam, the first Malayalam newspaper was published in
    1847 June.
    Rajyasamacharam was a religious journal started by Dr. Herman Gundert in 1847 and was published from Illikkunnu (Illikunnel), in Thalassery, in Kannur District of Kerala.

22. Malampuzha Dam, the largest reservoir in Kerala is situated in?
    Palakkad.

23. Birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is observed as
    National Youth Day.

24. Which is the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust?
    Magnesium.

25. The Panama Canal was opened in?
    1914.

26. Who is the first chairman of National Human Rights Commission?
Ranganath Mishra

27. Where is Tahrir Square located?
Egypt
Tahrir Square also known as "Martyr Square" is a major public town square in Downtown Cairo, Egypt.

28. Who is the first women president of Australia?
Julia Gillard.

29. Which year is observed as International Year of Forests?
2011.

30. World cup Football 2014 will be held in
Brazil.

31. Head Quarters of Konkan Railway Corporation is situated at?
Belappur

32. The wind which is known as "Chinook" in Europe is
Foehn.

33. First SAARC summit was held at
Dhaka.

34. The Capital of Pakistan when it formed in 1947?
Karachi.
In 1958, the capital of Pakistan was shifted from Karachi to Islamabad and Karachi became the capital of Sindh.

35. Which river flows between the Satpura and the Vindhya Ranges?
Narmada.

36. Name of the bomb dropped in Hiroshima?
Little Boy.

37. Umroi Airport is in the state of?
Meghalaya.
Shillong Airport (also known as Umroi Airport) is an airport located at Umroi, 30 km (19 mi) from Shillong, Meghalaya.

38. Who is called as Father of Indian family planning?
R.D.Karve.

39. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) was formed in the year?
1969

40. Gersoppa water falls is in which river?
Sharavathi River.
Gersoppa water falls are also called Jog Falls. This is the second-highest plunge waterfall in India. Jog Falls is created by the Sharavathi River falling from a height of 253 m.

41. Central Mining Research Station is situated at?
Dhanbad.
Dhanbad is a city in the state of Jharkhand, and is also known as the Coal Capital of India.

42. Which State of India has the highest per capita income?
Punjab.

43. Who has the power to dissolve Lok Sabha?
The President

44. The country which is also known as 'Country of Copper'
Zambia.

45. The first Indian Factories Act was passed in:
1881.

46. ​​Who is known as the father of Renaissance?
Petrarch.
Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is also called as the "Father of Humanism"
  
47. The temperate grasslands of South America is called
Pampas.

48. Minamata disease is caused by?
Mercury.
Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. The disease was first discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1956

49. Normal body temperature of human is?
98.6 Degree F or 36.8 Degree C.

50. Who is the first woman chief justice of Kerala High Court
Sujatha Manohar.

Current affairs in november 2012

1. Who is the new Finance Minister of India?
P.Chidambaram.

2. Who is named as the new Home Minister of India?
Sushil Kumar Shinde.

3. Who is the new Power Minister of India?
Veerappa Moily.

4. A career diplomat who has been appointed as press secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee?
Venu Rajamony.

5. Indian dancer who popularized the Kuchipudi dance form all over the world, died on July 29, 2012?
Vempati Chinna Satyam.
He was awarded Kalidas Puraskar by the Govt of Madhya Pradesh and Kalaimamani by the Govt of Tamil Nadu. He was also awarded the Padma Bhushan by Govt. Of India.

6. Who has taken over as the Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Air Command (SAC)?
Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Jolly.

7. American writer, author of the novel 'The City and the Pillar' and epic historical drama 'Benhur', died on July 31, 2012?
Gore Vidal.

8. The US Congress approved punishing new sanctions targeting energy and shipbuilding sectors of a country in Western Asia on August 1, 2012. Which is that country?
Iran.

9. Who has been named the next Chief Justice of Singapore?
Justice Sundaresh Menon.
He will be sworn in as the Chief Justice from 6 November 2012. Menon is a Singaporean Judge of Appeal and a former Attorney-General of Singapore. Menon stepped down from the office of Attorney-General on 25 June 2012 assumed his new position of Judge of Appeal on 1 August 2012.

10. Which country lifted a ban on investment from Pakistan from August1, 2012?
India.

11. Indian scientist who became one of the nine winners of the first Yuri Milner Fundamental Physics Prize, the world's most lucrative academic award?
Ashoke Sen.
He is a Theoretical physicist and a string theorist at Allahabad's Harish Chandra Research Institute. Ashoke had received the Padma Shree in 2001 and the SS Bhatnagar Award in 1994. He was also elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1998 and to the Indian National Science Academy in 1995.

The prize, which is almost three times that of the Nobel Prize - which is frequently shared by two or three winners, has been introduced by Yuri Milner, a Russian student of physics who dropped out of graduate school in 1989 and later made billions as an investor in companies like Facebook.

12. Indian Shooter who won silver in the 25 metres Rapid Fire Pistol competition at the London Olympics -2012?
Vijay Kumar.

13. Former Mongolian President who has been jailed for four years after being convicted of corruption?
Nambar Enkhbayar.
Mr Enkhbayar was arrested in April, 2012 and charged with misusing property and government power. He served as prime minister and then president until he lost office in a 2009 poll.

14. Pakistan has allowed two of its banks to open branches in India as part of efforts to normalise economic and trade relations between the two countries. Name those two banks?
National Bank of Pakistan and United Bank Ltd.

15. Who has been nominated as the leader of the house in the Lok Sabha?
Sushil Kumar Shinde (Home Minister).

16. Who won the bronze medal for India in the women's badminton singles of London Olympics 2012?
Saina Nehwal
She won India its third medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, after being declared the winner in the women's badminton play-off for the bronze medal after her Chinese opponent Wang Xin withdrew with an injured knee.

17. Which country has test fired a new short-range missile called "The Fateh 110" in August 2012?
Iran.
 The Fateh 110 has a range of around 300km and could purportedly strike with pin-point precision.

18. Name of the car-sized robotic rover of NASA which successfully landed on in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012?
Curiosity rover.
Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, aboard the Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL) spacecraft and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012.

19. Renowned social worker, founder and chief patron of the organization that popularized the Jaipur Foot who has been selected for the 20th Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhawana Award?



D. R. Mehta.
In 1975, Mehta, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India, set up the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), a charitable organization based in Jaipur that provides artificial legs to the poor. The Award, which carries a citation and a cash award of five lakh rupees, is being given to him for his outstanding contribution towards promotion of communal harmony, peace and goodwill.

20. Who was sworn-in as the 14th Vice President of India?
Hamid Ansari.
Ansari defeated the NDA nominee Jaswant Singh by 252 votes in the electoral college of 787 Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha MPs. This is his second consecutive term as the vice-president, only the second to do so after Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

21. Who is the Prime Minister of Serbia?
Ivica Dacic.
He is the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia, and from 2008 to July 2012 he served as First Deputy Prime Minister, as well as Minister of Internal Affairs. He has been the Prime Minister of Serbia since July 2012.

22. Who has been appointed as an Election Commissioner of India on 7 August 2012?
Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi.
Zaidi was appointed to fill the vacancy which was created by the retirement of former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi and the elevation of VS Sampath as Chief Election Commissioner. HS Brahma is the other Election Commissioner.

23. Winners of The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2011:
Best novel: Subhash Chandran ('Manushyanu Oremukham')
Drama: Balasubramanyam (Cholliyattam)
Short-story: UK Kumaran (Polisukarante Penmakkal)
Literary criticism: B Rajeevan (Vakkukalum Vasthukkalum).
Scholarly literature: LS Rajagopalan (Eenavum Thalavum);
Biography / autobiography: K R Gowri Amma
Travelogue: T N Gopakumar (Volga Tharangangal)
Translation: K B Prasannakumar
Children's literature: K Radhakrishnan (Gandhijiyude Athmakatha Kuttikalkku) Humour: Lalithambika (Kaliyum Karyavum).
Endowments:
Linguistics and Study of Science: Dr NK Mary (Malayala Vyakarana Sidhanthangal).
Essay: S Gopalakrishnan (Kathapole Chilathu Sambavikkumbol);
Vaidhika Sahithyam: Prof Thuravoor Viswambaran (Mahabharatha Paryadanam Bharathadarsanam: Punarvayana);
Poetry: Aryambika (Thoniyapoloru Puzha);
Short story collection: Dhanya Raj (Pachayude Albam);
Scientific literature: Dr Aaniyil Tharakan (Bharatheeya Darsanam English Kavithayil).
24. Who won the Man of the match award in the fifth ODI cricket played between Sri Lanka and India held in Sri Lanka on August 4, 2012?
Irfan Pathan. (India). He took 5 wickets and scored 29 runs.
India beat Sri Lanka by 20 runs.

25. Who won the Player of the Series award in the 5 ODI Cricket series between India and Sri Lanka held in Sri Lanka in 2012?
Virat Kohli. (India).
Series Status: India wins the 5 ODI series 4-1.

26. Who won the Man of the match award in the only T20 cricket played between Sri Lanka and India held in Sri Lanka on August 7, 2012?
Irfan Pathan. (India).
India beat Sri Lanka by 39 runs.

27. Who became India's first woman boxer to win a medal at the Olympics when she finished with a bronze in the 51 kg event at the London Games-2012?
MC Mary Kom.
She is a five-time World Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships

28. Name of the medium range nuclear capable missile with a strike range of 2000 km which is successfully test fired by India on August 9, 2012 from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast?
Agni-II.

29. Who is elected as the interim president of Libya?
Mohammed el-Megarif.

30. The US space program's prototype space lander which crashed and burned on August 9, 2012, after rising only a few dozen feet on liftoff?
Morpheus.

31. Which country won the ICC Under 19-Cricket World Cup-2012 held in Australia?
India.
India has won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the third time, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.

32. Who won the Man of the match award in the final of the ICC Under 19-Cricket World Cup-2012?

Unmukt Chand. (Captain of India). He scored unbeaten 111 runs.

33. Who won the Player of the series award in the ICC Under 19-Cricket World Cup-2012 held in Australia?
W Bosisto (Australia).

34. ICC Under 19-Cricket World Cup-2014 will be held in?
United Arab Emirates. (UAE).

35. Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who is appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) in the Ministry of Finance of India?
Raghuram G. Rajan.
   
36. Noted Indian-American journalist and author who has been suspended by his employers CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism and apologised for the ethical lapse?
    Fareed Zakaria.
    Fareed Zakaria was briefly suspended in August 2012 while Time and CNN investigated an allegation of plagiarism involving an August 20 Zakaria column on gun control with similarities to a New Yorker article by Jill Lepore.
Six days later, after a review of his research notes and years of prior commentary, Time and CNN reinstated Zakaria.
       
37. Indian Wrestler who won the Silver medal in the Men's 66kg Free Style Wrestling event at the 2012 London Olympics
Sushil Kumar.
        He lost the men's freestyle 66 kg category final to his Japanese opponent Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu. He became the first Indian to win back-to-back Olympic medals. He won bronze medal in the Men's 66kg Freestyle Wrestling event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

38. Indian wrestler who won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's 60kg Freestyle wrestling?
Yogeshwar Dutt.

39. Indian shooter who won the Bronze Medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle Event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
Gagan Narang.

40. Union Minister for Science and Technology and former Maharashtra chief minister who died on 14 August 2012 due to multiple organ failure?
Vilasrao Deshmukh.
He was two-time Chief Minister of Maharashtra, from 1999 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2008. He was appointed to the Council of Ministers as Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 28 May 2009. He was appointed as Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises on 19 January 2011 cabinet reshuffle. Later on he was appointed Minister of Rural Development. He was appointed as Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences on 12 July 2011.

41. Former American boxer in the heavyweight division nicknamed "Dynamite" who died on August 11, 2012?
Michael Dokes.
Dokes won the WBA heavyweight title against Mike Weaver in December 1982.

42. Who won the Rogers Cup Women's Tennis title-2012?
Petra Kvitova. (Czech Republic)
She defeated Li Na of China in the final.

43. Who won the Rogers Cup men's Tennis title-2012?
Novak Djokovic. (Serbia).
He defeated Richard Gasquet, of France in the final.

44. Man of the Match winners of 2 Test cricket matches played between England and South Africa held in England in August 2012:
Second Test between England and South Africa held in Leeds from August 2, 2012:
Man of the Match: Kevin Pietersen. (England). He scored 149 runs in first innings and took 3 wickets in second innings.
Result: England drew with South Africa.

Third Test between England and South Africa held in Lords from August 16, 2012:
Man of the Match: Vernon Philander. (South Africa). He scored 61 runs in first innings and took 5 wickets in second innings.
Result: South Africa beat England by 51 runs.
Series Status: South Africa wins the 3 Test series 2-0.

45. Who won the Player of the series award in the three Test cricket matches played between England and South Africa held in England in 2012?
Matt Prior (England) and Hashim Amla (South Africa).

46. ​​Man of the Match winners of 2 ODI cricket matches played between England and South Africa held in England in August 2012:
First ODI between England and South Africa: Match abandoned.
Second ODI between England and South Africa held in Southampton on August 28, 2012:
Man of the Match: Hashim Amla. (South Africa). He scored 150 runs.
Result: South Africa beat England by 80 runs.

47. Which country granted political asylum to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange on August 15, 2012?
Ecuador.

48. The England and Manchester United defender who has been fined £ 45,000 by the Football Association for the Twitter comments made about Ashley Cole?
Rio Ferdinand.

49. Who became the first Indian to enter the semifinals of a Gold Series event after defeating Amanda Sobhy in the Australian Squash Open played in Canberra?
Dipika Pallikal.

50. Which country has been suspended from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) because of its violent suppression of a 17-month uprising?
Syria.

51. Who is the winner of Miss World 2012?
Wen Xia Yu. (Miss China).
            Miss World 2012, the 62nd edition of the Miss World pageant was held on August 18, 2012 in Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.

52. Olympic medalists who are jointly conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award-2012?
Vijay Kumar (Shooting) and Yogeshwar Dutt (Wrestling)

53. Winners of other Major Sports Awards:
Arjuna Award Winners:
 Deepika Kumari (Archery), Laishram Bombayla Devi (Archery),
 Sudha Singh (Athletics), Kavita Ramdas Raut (Athletics),
 Ashwani Ponnappa (Badminton), Parupalli Kashyap (Badminton),
 Aditya S Mehta (Billiards and Snooker), Vikas Krishan (Boxing),
Yuvraj Singh (Cricket), Sardar Singh (Hockey), Yashpal Solanki (Judo),
Anup Kumar (Kabaddi), Samir Suhag (Polo), Annu Raj Singh (Shooting),
 Omkar Singh (Shooting), Joydeep Karmakar (Shooting),
 Deepika Pallikal (Squash), Sandeep Sejwal (Swimming),
Ng. Sonia Chanu (Weightlifting), Narsingh Yadav (Wrestling),
Rajinder Kumar (Wrestling), Geeta Phogat (Wrestling),
M. Bimoljit Singh (Wushu), Deepa Mallick (Athletics - Paralympics),
Ramkaran Singh (Athletics - Paralympics).
Dronacharya Awards:
Virender Poonia (Athletics), Sunil Dabas (Kabaddi), Yashvir Singh (Wrestling), Harendra Singh (Hockey), Satyapal Singh (Para Sports (Athletics), JS Bhatia (Athletics, for Life Time achievement), Bhawani Mukherjee (Table Tennis, for Life Time achievement) and BI Fernandez (Boxing).
Dhyan Chand Awards: Jagraj Singh Mann (Athletics), Gundeep Kumar (Hockey), Vinod Kumar (Wrestling) and Sukhbir Singh Tokas (Para-Sports).
Tenzing Norgay adventure award wins: Col. Anand Swaroop, SM (Land Adventure), Sub. Rajendra Singh Jalal (Land Adventure), Bhakti Sharma (Water Adventure), Mandip Singh Soin (Life Time Achievement).
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar: Community Sports Identification and Nurturing of Budding Young Talent - Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), Financial Support for Sports Excellence - Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB), Establishment and Management of Sports Academies of Excellence - Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) and Employment of Sportspersons and Sports Welfare Measures - Air India Sports Promotion.

54. Veteran Indian batsman who announced his retirement from international cricket on August 18, 2012?
V.V.S. Laxman.
Laxman played 134 Tests since his debut in 1996, scoring 8,781 runs at an average of 45.97 with 17 centuries and 56 fifties. He also scored 2,338 runs in 86 one-day internationals with six hundreds. Laxman represents Hyderabad in domestic cricket and has played for Lancashire in English county cricket. In 2011, Laxman was awarded the Padma Shri award, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India.
                              Laxman is noted most for his batting against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds and four out of his six ODI hundreds have come against Australia. He has two double-centuries in Tests, both of them against Australia: his personal best of 281 at Kolkata in 2000-01, and 200 * at Feroz Shah Kotla in 2008-09.

55. Who is appointed by the United Nations as the new peace envoy to Syria, replacing Kofi Annan?
Lakhdar Brahimi.
On 17 August 2012, Brahimi was appointed as UN's Peace Envoy to Syria. He is an Algerian veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He is also a member of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for global peace. In 2010, Lakhdar Brahimi was Laureate of the Special Jury Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded by the Fondation Chirac, a foundation which was launched in 2008 by former French president Jacques Chirac in order to promote world peace.

56. Name of the Indian-origin woman who has created a record by pulling a double-decker bus in Leicester by a rope tied to her hair in front of a large gathering of crowds?
Asha Rani.
Asha Rani, 21 year old, who is known as the Iron Queen, pulled the 12-tonne bus 17.2m on Humberstone Gate in Leicester.

57. The British-born filmmaker and director of Hollywood blockbusters such as Top Gun, True Romance and Crimson Tide who has died after leaping off a bridge in Los Angeles on August 19, 2012?
Tony Scott.
His films were generally more popular with audiences than critics and include The Hunger (1983), Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Crimson Tide ( 1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Spy Game (2001), Deja Vu (2006), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) and Unstoppable (2010).

58. Who won the Cincinnati Masters Tennis Men's Title 2012 defeating Novak Djokovic in final?
Roger Federer

59. Who won the Cincinnati Masters Tennis Women's Title 2012?
Li Na (China).
She defeated Angelique Kerber of Germany in the final.

60. A leading Canada-based Tamil human rights activist who was named for the VK Krishna Menon Institute's Personality of the Year award 2012?
Rathika Sitsabaiesan.
                She was chosen for the award in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of human rights and her uncompromising opposition to the persecution of minorities including her fellow Tamils ​​in Sri Lanka.

61. Which South American Country has granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after taking refuge in the country's embassy in London?
Equador.

62. Who has taken charge as the new managing director of Kochi Metro Rail Limited?
Elias George.

63. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 who died on August 20, 2012?
Meles Zenawi Asres.
He was President of Ethiopia from 1991 to 1995 and became the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 1995 following the general elections that year.

64. Which state won the overall title of South Zone Junior Athletic Meet held in 2012?
Kerala.

65. Name of the black farm worker who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche at his home?
Chris Mahlangu.
             Eugene Terre'Blanche was a former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) during the apartheid era. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he became known for threatening civil war to maintain white rule in South Africa. He was given several labels during his lifetime, including "white supremacist", "nationalist," and "racist". Terre'Blanche spent three years in prison for assaulting a black petrol station worker and for the attempted murder of a black security guard in 1996 . On 3 April 2010, he was hacked and beaten to death on his farm by a farm labourer, Chris Mahlangu, allegedly over a wage dispute.

66. Man of the Match Winners of two test cricket matches played between India and New Zealand held in India in August 2012:

First Test between India and New Zealand held in Uppal, Hyderabad from August 23, 2012:
Man of the Match: Ravichandran Ashwin (India). He took 5 wickets in first innings and 6 wickets in second innings. He also scored 37 runs in first innings.
Result: India won by innings and 115 runs

Second Test between India and New Zealand held in M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru from August 31, 2012.
Man of the Match: Virat Kohli (India). He scored 103 in first innings and 53 in second innings.
Results: India beat New Zealand by 5 wickets.
Series Results: India won the two test series 2-0.

67. Who won the Player of the Series award in the two test cricket matches played between India and New Zealand held in India in August 2012?
Ravichandran Ashwin (India).

68. The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in?
Tehran, Iran.
The summit was held from 26 to 31 August 2012, attended by leaders of 120 countries. The summit's framework was the "Final Document" adopted during the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau which was held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from 7 to 10 May.

69. Which South Korean company is ordered to pay over USD 1 billion in damages to Apple after a US court deemed the company had infringed a number of patents held by Apple?
Samsung.

70. Bollywood's distinguished character artist who played the role of the lovable old man in films like Sholay, Shaukeen and Namak Haram, died on 26 August 2012?



A.K. Hangal.
  He was an Indian freedom fighter from 1929-1947 and also stage actor from 1936-1965 and later became a character actor in Hindi language films from 1966-2005. His most notable roles are as Ram Shastri in Aaina (1977), as the Inder Sen in Shaukeen, as Bipinlal Pandey in Namak Haraam, as Imaam Sa'ab in Sholay, as Anokhelal in Manzil and the antagonist in Prem Bandhan and the 16 films he did with Rajesh Khanna. He has acted in around 225 Hindi films in a career spanning from 1966 to 2005.

71. Ultra-conservative Islamists destroyed the tomb of a 15th century Sufi scholar and a historical library attached to a mosque on 25 August 2012 in a country in North Africa. Which is that country?
Libya.
Libyan Conservative Islamists has burned down a historical library that contains thousands of rare books. They also destroyed a shrine of one of the Sufi figures in Libya that dates back to the 15th Century at the city of Zliten.

72. American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon who died on August 25, 2012?



Neil Armstrong.
Neil Alden Armstrong was an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the US Navy and served in the Korean War. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962. He made his first space flight, as command pilot of Gemini 8, in 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in July 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours exploring, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

73. Former World No 1 and 3-time US Open champion who announced her retirement from Professional Tennis on August, 2012?
Kim Clijsters.
Clijsters has won 41 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She has won four Grand Slam singles titles: three at the US Open, in 2005, 2009, and 2010 and one at the Australian Open in 2011. She has also been runner- up in four Grand Slam singles tournaments, and won the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002, 2003, and 2010. In doubles, she won the French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2003.
In June 2011, TIME magazine named her one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future". According to Forbes in August 2011, she became the fifth highest-paid female athlete over the past year.

74. One of England's most successful captains after winning Ashes series at home and away who announced his retirement from cricket on 29 August 2012 after 100 test appearances?
Andrew Strauss.
He scored 7037 runs in Test cricket and 4202 in 124 ODIs. England won 24 of 50 Tests under Strauss. His international career lasted 10 years, during which he scored 21 Test centuries and six ODI hundred

75. Spanish footballer who was crowned as the European Footballer of the Year 2012?
Andres Iniesta.

76. A bag carrying diplomatic mail from an Asian country has been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, portions of the Alps mountain range which stand within France. Name of that Asian country?
India.
A bag carrying diplomatic mail reading "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs" belonging to the Indian Government has been found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, close to where an Air India plane crashed 46 years ago. The Air India plane flying from Mumbai to New York crashed in January 1966 and all 117 people on board died.

77. Who has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after the world governing body of cycling known as UCI accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's investigation?
Lance Armstrong.
He is an American former professional road racing cyclist. In 2012 he was banned for life and disqualified from all his results since August 1998, for using and distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Before being stripped of the titles, Armstrong had won the Tour de France seven consecutive times, from 1999 to 2005, after having testicular cancer.

78. US-based Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) will open its first overseas cancer centre, American Institute of Oncology (AOI) in?
Hyderabad.
The center is created as part of the first phase of the Citizens Hospital, AOI would offer a sophisticated Electronic Medical Record for anytime and anywhere access of patient information.

79. The National Advisory Council has set up a two-member working group to study the report on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) prepared by the High Level Expert Group and the government's proposal to expand the scope of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and convert it into a National Health Mission. The two member group comprising of?
Mirai Chatterjee and A.K. Shiva Kumar.

80. Who has been appointed the first Chancellor of Central University, Karnataka, Gulbarga?
U.R. Ananthamurthy.

81. Which Indian company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China Datang Corporation (CDT) to form a strategic partnership for development and operation of power and energy projects in India and abroad?
Reliance Power Limited.
Reliance Power Limited is part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. It was established to develop, construct and operate power projects in the domestic and international markets. Reliance Energy Limited, an Indian private sector power utility company along with the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group promotes Reliance Power.

82. Who won the Man of the Match award in the first ODI cricket between Australia and Pakistan held at Sharjah on August 28, 2012?
Mitchell Starc (Australia). He took 5 wickets conceding 42 runs.
Result: Australia beat Pakistan by 4 wickets.

83. Who has taken over as the Chief of Staff of the Southern Naval Command, Kochi?
Rear Admiral G. Ashok Kumar.

84. Whole-time Director and head of the power business of Larsen and Toubro (L & T) who has resigned as director of the company?
Ravi Uppal.

85. India's largest realty firm which has decided to end its five-year long association with Indian Premier League as the title sponsor?
DLF.

CS 2252 Microprocessor and Microcontroller question paper download

CS2252 - MICROPROCESSORS AND MICRO CONTROLLERS
(Common to Information Technology)
(Regulation 2008)

Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks
Answer ALL Questions.
PART A-(10 X 2 = 20 marks)

1. Assume that the accumulator contains data types 82H and the instruction MOV C, A (4FH) is fetched. List the steps in encoding and executing the instruction.
2. What are the second bytes in the instruction IN and OUT of 8085 microprocessor?
3. Draw the 8086 flag register format.
4. List different types of 8086 hardware interrupts.
5. Compare closely coupled configuration with loosely coupled configuration.
6. Mention the need for co-processor in a microprocessor based system.
7. Can an input port and an output port have the same port address? Justify.
8. Why is each channel in DMA controller restricted to 16K bytes of data transfer?
9. With XTAL = 11.0592 MHz, what value should be loaded into TH1 to have 9600 baud rate?
10. How do you select the register bank in 8051 micro-controller?

PART B-(5 X 16 = 80 Marks)

11. (A) (i) Write an 8085 assembly language program with flowchart for the following: Six bytes are stored in memory locations starting at XX50H. Add all the data bytes. Use register B to save any carry generated while adding the data bytes . Store the sum at two consecutive memory locations, XX70H and XX71H. Data (H): A2, FA, DF, E5, 98, 8B. (8 Marks)
(Ii) Write a program to generate a continuous square wave with the period of 500 microseconds. Assume the system clock period is 325ns and use bit D0 to output the square wave. (8 Marks)
(Or)
(B) (i) Explain the following 8085 instructions with an example JP, JPO, CM, RPE, DAA, XCHG, SPHL and PCHL. (8 Marks)
(Ii) Draw the timing diagram for the instruction MVI A, 32h and OUT 01h. (8 Marks)

12. (A) (i) Draw the internal block diagram of 8086 microprocessor and explain. (8 Marks)
(Ii) Explain any eight assembler directives of 8086 microprocessor. (8 Marks)
(Or)
(B) (i) Give three examples for the following 8086 microprocessor instructions: String Instructions, Process Control Instruction, Program Execution Transfer Instructions and Bit manipulation Instructions. (12 Marks)
(Ii) How does one define and call macro parameters of 886 microprocessor? (4 Marks)

13. (A) (i) Draw the internal block diagram of 8087 Co-processor and explain it with 8087 control word and status word formats. (12 Marks)
(Ii) Give two examples for packed decimal data transfers and integer data transfers of an 8087 co-processor. (4 Marks)
(Or)
(B) Draw the architecture of 8089 I / O co-processor and explain. (16 Marks)

14. (A) Draw the block diagram of 8279 keyboard / Display controller and explain hoe to interface the Hex Key pad and 7 - segment LEDs using 8279. (16 Marks)
(Or)
(B) (i) Draw the functional block diagram of 8254 timer and explain the different modes of operation. (8 Marks)
(Ii) Draw the block diagram of 8259A and explain how to program 8259A. (8 Marks)

15. (A) (i) Explain the memory structure of an 8051 Micro-controller. (8 Marks)
(Ii) How does one interface a 16 X 2 LCD Display using 8051 Micro-controller? (8 Marks)
(Or)
(B) (i) Explain the on-chip timer modes of an 8051 Micro-controller. (8 Marks)
(Ii) Explain how interface an 8 - bit ADC with 8051 Micro-controller. (8 Marks)

CS 2255 Database Management systems question paper download

Computer Science and Engineering
CS2255 - DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

(Common to Information Technology)
(Regulation 2008)

Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL Questions

PART A - (10 × 2 = 20 Marks)

1. Explain the basic structure of a Relational Database with an example.
2.What are the functions of a DBA?
3.Give the usage of the rename operation with an example.
4.What do you mean by weak entity set?
5.What is normalization?
6. Write a note on functional dependencies.
7. What do you mean by a Transaction?
8. Define the term ACID properties.
9. Describe flash memory.
10.List out the Physical storage media.

PART B - (5 × 16 = 80 Marks)

11th (a) (i) Discuss the Various disadvantages in the file system and EXPLAIN
how it can be Overcome by the database system. (Marks 6)
(ii) What are the Different Data Model Present? Explain in detail. (Marks 10)
or
(b) (i) Explain the Database system structure with a neat diagram. (Marks 10)
(ii) Construct an ER diagram for an Employee Payroll system. (Marks 6)

12th (a) (i) Explain the use of Trigger with your own example. (Marks 8)
(ii) Discuss the terms Distributed Databases and Client / Server
Database. (Marks 8)
or
(b) (i) What is a view? How can it be created? Explain with an example. (Mark 7)
(ii) Discuss in detail the operator of the SELECT, PROJECT, UNION with
Suitable examples. (Mark 9)

13th (a) Explain 1NF, 2NF and 3NF with an example. (Marks 16)
or
(b) Explain the Boyce-Codd Normal Form with an example. Also state how it
Differ from That of 3NF. (Marks 16)

14th (a) (i) How can you Implement atomicity in Transactions? Explain. (Marks 8)
(ii) Describe the concept of serilalizability with Suitable example. (Marks 8)
or
(b) How concurrency is performed? Explain the protocol That is used to
Maintain the concurrency concept. (Marks 16)

15th (a) What is RAID? Explain it in detail. (Marks 16)
or
(b) Mention the purpose of indexing. How this can be done by B + tree?
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CS 2254 operating System question paper download

CS2254 - OPERATING SYSTEMS

(Common to Information Technology)
(Regulation 2008)
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL Questions

PART A - (10 × 2 = 20 Marks)

1.Mention the Objectives and functions of an operating system.
2.Define a thread. Differentiate user threads from kernel threads.
3. What is a semaphore? State the two parameters.
4. What is deadlock? What are the schemes used in the operating system to handle
deadlocks?
5. Differentiate a page from a segment.
6. What is meant by thrashing? Give an example.
7.Mention Objective of the file management system.
8.Differentiate the Various File Access Methods.
9.What is the need for disk scheduling?
10. What does swap-space management mean?

PART B - (5 × 16 = 80 Marks)
11th (A) (i) Explain the operating system structure and its components. (Marks 8)
(Ii) Explain Briefly IPC in Linux. (Marks 8)
Or
(B) (i) Explain Process Control Block. (Marks 4)
(Ii) Describe the Differences among short-term, medium-term, and
long-term scheduling. (Marks 4)
(Iii) Describe the Inter Process Communication in client-server systems.
(8)

12th (A) (i) Distinguish Between preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling.
Each type Explain with an example. (Marks 8)
(Ii) What is synchronization? Explain how semaphores can be used to
deal with n-process critical section problem. (Marks 8)
Or
(B) (i) Discuss the issues in multiprocessor and real-time scheduling. (Marks 8)

(Ii) Explain Banker's deadlock-Avoidance algorithm with an
illustration. (Marks 8)

13th (A) (i) Discuss how memory is allocated in the variable partition
multiprogramming. (Marks 6)
(Ii) Explain memory management in Linux. (Marks 10)
Or
(B) (i) Discuss in detail Segmentation. Compare it with paging. (Marks 8)
(Ii) Explain FIFO, LRU and Second-chance page replacement
Algorithms with an example reference string. (Marks 8)

14th (A) (i) Explain linked file allocation method. (Marks 6)
(Ii) Describe the Windows XP file system in detail. (Marks 10)
Or
(B) (i) What is the Role of Access matrix for protection? Explain. (Mark 5)
(Ii) What is meant by free space management? Explain. (Mark 5)
(Iii) Explain the directory structure of the Linux operating system. (Marks 6)

15th (A) (i) Explain the Services Provided by a kernel I / O Subsystem. (Marks 8)
(Ii) Explain and compare the C-LOOK and C-SCAN disk scheduling
Algorithms. (Marks 8)
Or
(B) (i) Write an elaborate note on the raid. (Marks 6)
(Ii) Explain in detail the Salient features of Linux I / O. (10)

CS 2251 Design and Analysis of Algorithm question paper download

CS2251 - DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF Algorithm
(Regulation 2008)
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL Questions
PART A - (10 × 2 = 20 Marks)
1.Differentiate from Time Complexity Space Complexity.
2. What is a RECURRENCE Equation?
3.What is Called Substitution Method?
4. What is an Optimal Solution?
5. Define Multistage Graphs.
6. Define Optimal Binary Search Tree.
7.Explicit and Implicit Differentiate Constraints.
8. What is the Difference Between a Live Node and a Dead Node?
9. What is a Biconnected Graph?
10. What is a FIFO branch-and-bound algorithm?
PART B - (5 × 16 = 80 Marks)
11th (a) Explain how Time Complexity is Calculated. Give an example.
or
(b) Elaborate on Asymptotic Notation with examples.
12th (a) With a Suitable algorithm, EXPLAIN the problem of finding the Maximum
and minimum items in a set of n elements.
or
(b) Explain Merge Sort Problem using Divide and Conquer technique. Give an
example.
13th (a) Write down and EXPLAIN the algorithm to Solve all pairs shortest paths
Problem.
or
(b) Explain how dynamic programming is applied to traveling Solve
salesperson problem.
14th (a) Describe the backtracking solution Solve the 8-Queens problem.
or
(b) With an example, EXPLAIN Graph Coloring Algorithm.
15th (a) Explain in detail the Graph Traversal.
or
(b) With an example, EXPLAIN how the branch-and-bound technique is used to
Solve 0/1 Knapsack problem.

CY 2111 Engineering Chemistry I question paper download

Anna University
B.E. / B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS, JANUARY 2010
Regulations 2008
First Semester
Common to all branches (except Marine Engg)
CY2111 ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY I

Time: Three Hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL Questions
Part A - (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1. Calculate the hardness of a water sample containing 2.4 mg of calcium chloride in 500 ml of water.
2. What is Calgon? How does it function in water treatment?
3. Why thermosetting plastics can not be remoulded?
4. What is the role of sulfur in the vulcanization of rubber?
5. Compare absorption and adsorption.
6. Mention any four applications of adsorption.
7. Furnish the sequence of reactions in proton cycle nuclear fusion.
8. Give any two advantages of alkaline battery over dry cell.
9. De ¯ it refractoriness of a refractory.
10. What are nanomaterials? Mention any two of Their characteristic properties.

Part B - (5 x 16 = 80 Marks)
11. (A) (i) How is temporary hardness of water estimated by EDTA method? (8)
(Ii) What are the requirements of potable water? How will you purify water for drinking purpose? (8)
OR
11. (B) (i) What are ion exchange resins? How are they useful in removing hardness of water? (8)
(Ii) What i s desalination? With a neat diagram, describe the `reverse osmosis' method for the desalination of brackish water. (8)
12. (A) (i) How are le seguenti polymers prepared? (8)
(1) Teflon
(2) Polystyrene
(3) PET
(4) Nylon 6, 6.
(Ii) Explain the mechanism of free radical polymerization Additions. (8)
OR
12. (B) (i) What is natural rubber? Explain why natural rubber vulcanization needs. How is it the carried out? (8)
(Ii) What are composites? Give the preparation and uses of glass fiber reinforced composites and carbon fiber reinforced composites. (8)
13. (A) (i) Appears physisorption and chemisorption. (8)
(Ii) Adsorption of gases on solids is greatly influenced by temperature, pressure and nature of the adsorbent and adsorbate. Justify. (8)
OR
13. (B) (i) Describe the role of adsorbents in catalysis with examples. (8)
(Ii) How is the ion exchange adsorption useful in demineralization of water? Explain. (8)
14. (A) (i) Explain with a neat diagram the parts and functions of a nuclear reactor. (8)
(Ii) Write a note on photovoltaic cell. (8)
OR
14. (B) (i) Explain the working of hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell. (8)
(Ii) Write a short note on lithium batteries. (8)
15. (A) (i) How are alumina and carborundum manufactured? (12)
(Ii) What are refractories? How are they classified?. (4)
OR
15. (B) (i) What are fluid and boundary lubrications? Explain. (8)
(Ii) What are carbon nanotubes? Explain any three of Their important applications. (8)

IT 2042 Information Security question bank download

IT2042 - Information Security
Unit I-V

1. Explain in detail about software development life cycle process
2. What is SDLC? Illustrate the security of SDLC
3. Explain in detail about components of information systems.
4. Discuss in detail NSTISSC security model
5. Discuss in detail the Legal, Ethical and Professionalism security issues During investigation
6. Explain in detail the different types of cryptanalytic attacks.
7. Explain in detail about different type of threats
8. Explain in detail about legal issues During security investigation?
9. Explain in detail about Risk Control strategy
10.What is Risk Management?. State the methods of Identifying and Assessing Risk Management
11. Explain in detail about Risk Control Cycle
12.Explain in detail about Risk handling decision points
13. Explain in detail Cost Benefit Analysis and Exposure Factor
14.List the styles of architecture security models. Discuss them in detail
15. Briefly explain the NIST SECURITY MODEL
16.Explain in detail about designing of security architecture
17. Explain in detail about planning for continuity.
18.Explain in detail about IDS and its types.
19.Write short notes on scanning and analysis tools used During Design
20. Write notes on the control devices used in security design
21.What is cryptography?. Discuss the authentication models used in cryptography.
22. What is intrusion detection system?. Explain its types in detail.

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B.E. / B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2011.
                                              Seventh Semester
                                   Computer Science and Engineering
                               CS 2401 - COMPUTER GRAPHICS
                                       (Common to Information Technology)
                                                      Regulation 2008)
                                                                                              Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 marks
Answer ALL questions.
PART A - (10 × 2 = 20 marks)
1. Write down any two line attributes.
2. Differentiate window and viewport.
3. What are spline curves?
4. Define quadric surfaces.
5. What is animation?
6. Define keyframes.
7. What do you mean by shading of objects?
8. What is texture?
9. Define fractals.
10. Differentiate Mandelbrot and Julia sets.


PART B - (5 x 16 = 80 marks)


11. (a) Write down and explain the midpoint circle drawing algorithm. Assume 10 cm as the radius and co-ordinate origin as the center of the circle.
or
(b) Explain in detail the Cohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithm with an example.
12. (a) Differentiate parallel and perspective projections and drifts Their projection matrices.
or
(b) With suitable examples, explain all 3D transformations.
13. (a) Write notes on RGB and HSV color models.
or
(b) Discuss the Following:
(i) Methods to draw 3D objects. (8)
(ii) Basic OPENGL operations. (8)
14. (a) Explain le seguenti:
(i) Adding texture to faces. (8)
(ii) Adding shadows of objects. (8)
or
(b) Write down and explain the details to build a room in a program.
15. (a) Write notes on Peano curves.
or
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ANNA UNIVERSITY - COIMBATOREB.E. \ B.Tech DEGREE Examination December 2009FIFTH semester - 5thELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGG.CONTROL SYSTEMS - EC9254
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PART A-(2 * 20 = 40)
 1. What is the use of mason's gain formula.2.Give two examples for open loop and closed loop systems.3. What do you meant by analogous systems.4. What are the frequency domain specifications.5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of feedback control systems.6. How can we classify second order system based on damping ratio.7. Define gain margin.8. Define resonant frequency.9. State Routh Stability Criterion.10. Define the Nyquist stability Criterion.11. What are the difference Between state space analysis and Transfer function analysis.12. What are the root loci.13. What is servomechanism.14. What are the Different types of controller.15. What is synchro.16. Name the test signals used in control systems.17. What is polar plot.18. Give examples for the frequency response plot.19. Write down the state model and the output model of state space systems.20. What do you mean by decompositions of transfer function.
PART B-(5 * 12 = 60)
21/A) A unity feedback system has an open loop transfer function G (s) = K / s (s +10). If the damping ratio is 0.5 Determine (i) the value of k, (ii) the peak overshoot, (iii) the time to peak overshoot, (iv) the settling time. (8) B) For a unity feedback Whose G (s) = 1 / s (s +1) is the input signal r (t) = 4 +6 t +2 t3. Find the Generalized Coefficient error. (4)
22. For the given block diagram find Corresponding signal flow graph and Evaluate closed loop transfer function relating the output and input.
23. Determine the value of k for a unity feedback control system have open loop transfer function G (s) H (s) = K / s (s +2) (s +4) Such That (i) the gain margin = 20dB (ii) phase margin = 600th
24. Investigate the F (s) for stability using RH Criterion (i) F (s) = s4 + KS2 + (k +1) s +2 (ii) F (s) = s4 + s3 +3 s2 + s +6 (iii) F (s) = s5 + s4 s3 +2 s2 +2 s +6 +6
25. Obtain the state space model of the system with transfer function C (s) = s2 +3 s +2 phase in West format. R (s) s2 +7 s +12
26. A system characterized by the state FOLLOWING EquationFind (i) Transfer function of the system (ii) State transition matrix.
27. Sketch the root locus for the system with characteristic Equation 1 + G (s) H (s) = K (s +2) (s +3) (s +1) (s-1)
28. Find the transfer function of field controlled DC servo motor.

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ANNA UNIVERSITY - CHENNAIB.E. \ B.tech DEGREE EXAMINATION DECEMBER 20093rd - Third SemesterELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING.ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS - I
PART A-(2 * 10 = 20)1. Define stability factor.2. Draw the fixed bias single stage transistor circuit.3.Define CMRR.4.Draw the small signal equivalent circuit of the FET.5.Two amplifiers having gain 20db and 40db are cascaded. Find the overall gain in db.6.Define bandwidth.7.What is Theoretical maximum conversion efficiency of class A power amplifier.8. What is distortion in power amplifiers.9. Draw the full wave bridge rectifier circuit.10.What are the Advantages of SMPS over conventional regulators.
PART B-(5 * 16 = 80)
11. A) (i) For the transistor circuit in Fig. Find the Q-point. Vcc = 15V, B = 100, VBE = 0.7V(Ii) Calculate the stability factor for a fixed bias circuit.(Or)B) Discuss the Various techniques of stabilization of Q-point in a transistor.
12. A) For the CC transistor amplifier circuit, find the expressions for input impedance and voltage gain. Assume suitable model for transistor.(Or)B) (i) Discuss the working of a basic emitter coupled differential amplifier circuit (8)(Ii) Compare CB, CE and CC amplifiers. (8)
13. A) (i) Discuss the frequency response of multistage amplifiers. Calculate the overall upper and lower cutoff frequencies. (10)(Ii) Discuss the terms rise time and sag. (6) (Or)B) Discuss the high frequency equivalent circuit of FET and Hence Derive gain bandwidth product for any one configuration.
14.A) (i) Derive the max Theoretical conversion efficiency of class B power amplifier. (10)(Ii) Write short notes on power MOSFET amplifier. (6) (Or)B) Describe the distortion in power amplifier and the methods to ELIMINATE the same.
15. A) Explain the circuit of voltage regulator and also discuss the short circuit protection mechanism. (Or)B) (i) Explain the power control method using SCR.(Ii) Design zener regulator for volgende specification Vin = 8V to 12V, Vo = 10V, RL = 10kO. Assume That zener diode is ideal.

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EC9351 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I 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.

UNIT II 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, differential count.

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

UNIT IV PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND BIO-TELEMETRY 9
Diathermies – Short-wave, ultrasonic and microwave type and their applications,
medical stimulator, Telemetry principles, frequency selection, Bio-telemetry, radiopill and tele-stimulation, electrical safety.

UNIT V RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION 9
Thermograph, endoscopy unit, Laser in medicine, Surgical diathermy, cryogenic
application, introduction to telemedicine.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS


TEXT BOOKS
1. John G.Webster, “Medical Instrumentation Application and Design”, John Wiley
and Sons, (Asia) Pvt.Ltd., 2004.
2. Lesile Cromwell, “Biomedical instrumentation and measurement”, Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi, 2007.

REFERENCES
1. Khandpur, R.S. “Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
New Delhi, Second edition, 2003.
2. Joseph.J, Carr and John M.Brown, “Introduction to Biomedical equipment
technology”, Pearson Education Inc.2004.


EC9352 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I WIRELESS CHANNELS 9
Large scale path loss – Path loss models -Link Budget design – small scale fading-
Fading due to Multipath time delay spread – flat fading – frequency selective fading –
Fading due to Doppler spread – fast fading – slow fading – Parameters of mobile
multipath channels – Time dispersion parameters-coherence bandwidth – Doppler
spread & Coherence time.

UNIT II CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE 9
Evolution of Mobile Communication- trends in Cellular radio and personal
communications- Cellular concept-Frequency reuse - channel assignment- hand off-
interference & system capacity- trunking & grade of service.

UNIT III DIGITAL SIGNALING FOR FADING CHANNELS 9
Structure of a wireless communication link, Modulation and demodulation –
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, pi/4-Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying,
Offset-Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, Binary Frequency Shift Keying, Minimum Shift
Keying, Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying, Power spectrum and Error performance in
fading channels, OFDM principle – Transceiver implementation, Cyclic prefix, PAPR,
Intercarrier interference.

UNIT IV MULTIPATH MITIGATION TECHNIQUES 9
Diversity – Micro- and Macrodiversity, Diversity combining techniques, Error
probability in fading channels with diversity reception, Rake receiver, MIMO systems
– Spatial Multiplexing, System Model, Channel state information, Capacity in fading
and non-fading channels.

UNIT V WIRELESS STANDARDS 9
Principles of Spread Spectrum Techniques, FDMA, TDMA & CDMA -Capacity
Calculations – GSM & GPRS, CDMA in IS-95 / CDMA 2000, Wi-Fi, WiMax.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Andreas.F. Molisch, “Wireless Communications”, John Wiley – India, 2006.
2. Rappaport,T.S., “Wireless communications”, Pearson Education, 2003.


REFERENCES
1. David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, “Fundamentals of Wireless Communication”,
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2. Gordon L. Stuber, “Principles of Mobile Communication”, Springer International
Ltd., 2001.
3. Simon Haykins & Michael Moher, “Modern Wireless Communications”, Pearson
Education, 2007.
4. Vijay. K. Garg, “Wireless Communication and Networking”, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 2007.
5. Blake,R., Wireless Communication Technology, Thomson Delmar, 2003.
6. Lee,W.C.Y., Mobile Communication Engineering, McGraw Hill, 1998.
7. Van Nee, R. and Ramji Prasad, OFDM for wireless multimedia
communications, Artech House, 2000.

EC9353 COMMUNICATION NETWORKS L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS AND PHYSICAL LAYER 9
Introduction to Networks, definition of layers, services, interface and protocols. OSI
reference model- layers and duties. TCP/IP reference model – layers and duties.
Physical layer- general description, characteristics, signaling media types, topologies,
examples physical layer (RS232C, ISDN, ATM,SONET)

UNIT II DATA LINK LAYER AND NETWORK INTERCONNECTION 9
Logical link control Functions:- Framming, Flow control , Error control: CRC, LLC
protocols:- HDLC, P to P. Medium access layer:- Random access, Controlled access,
Channelization, IEEE standards:- 802.3, 802.4 and 802.5. Internetworking,
Interconnection issues, Interconnection devices:- Repeaters, Hubs, Routers/switches
and Gateways.

UNITIII MESSAGE ROUTING TECHNOLOGIES 9
Circuit switching, packet switching, message switching. Internet protocols; IPV4,
IPV6, ARP, RARP, ICMP, IGMP, VPN. Network Routing Algorithms: - Distance
vector routing, OSPF, Dijikstra’s , Bellaman Ford, Congestion control algorithms.

UNIT IV END-END PROTOCOLS AND  SECURITY 9
Process-process delivery:- TCP, UDP and SCTP. Application protocols:
WWW,HTTP,FTP and TELNET, Network management protocol: SNMP, Network
security.

UNIT V DIGITAL SWITCHING 9
Switching functions, Space Division Switch, Time Division Switch, STS switching,
TST switching, No 4 ESS Toll switch, digital cross connect systems.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Behrouz.A. Forouzan, Data Communication And Networking, 4th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2007.
2. John C. Bellamy, Digital Telephony, 3rd Edition, John Wiley 2006.


REFERENCES
1. Stallings.W., Data And Computer Communication, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 1996
2. Tanenboum, A.S, Computer Netwotks, 3rd
Edition , Prentice Hall Of India, 1996
3. Keshav.S. An Engineering Approach To Computer Networking, Addision –
Wesley,1999.
4. J.E.Flood, Telecommunication Switching, Traffic and networks, Ist edition,
Pearson Education, 2006


EC9354 ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIATION 9
Definition of antenna parameters – Gain, Directivity, Effective aperture, Radiation
Resistance, Band width, Beam width, Input Impedance. Matching – Baluns,
Polarization mismatch, Antenna noise temperature, Radiation from oscillating dipole,
Half wave dipole. Folded dipole, Yagi array.

UNIT II APERTURE AND SLOT ANTENNAS 9
Radiation from rectangular apertures, Uniform and Tapered aperture, Horn antenna ,
Reflector antenna , Aperture blockage , Feeding structures , Slot antennas
,Microstrip antennas – Radiation mechanism – Application ,Numerical tool for
antenna analysis

UNIT III ANTENNA ARRAYS 9
N element linear array, Pattern multiplication, Broadside and End fire array –
Concept of Phased arrays, Adaptive array, Basic principle of antenna SynthesisBinomial array

UNIT IV SPECIAL ANTENNAS 9
Principle of frequency independent antennas –Spiral antenna, Helical antenna, Log
periodic. Modern antennas- Reconfigurable antenna, Active antenna, Dielectric
antennas, Electronic band gap structure and applications, Antenna MeasurementsTest Ranges, Measurement of Gain, Radiation pattern, Polarization, VSWR

UNIT V PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES 9
Modes of propagation , Structure of atmosphere , Ground wave propagation,
Tropospheric propagation , Duct propagation , Troposcatter propagation , Flat earth
and Curved earth concept ,Sky wave propagation – Virtual height ,critical frequency ,
Maximum usable frequency – Skip distance , Fading , Multi hop propagation.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. John D Kraus,” Antennas for all applications”,3 Ed, McGraw Hill, 2005
2. Edward C.Jordan and Keith G.Balmain”Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating
Systems”Prentice Hall of India,2006


REFERENCES
1. Constantine.A.Balanis”Antenna Theory Analysis and Design” Wiley student
edition,2006
2. Rajeswari Chatterjee,:”Antenna Theory and Practice”Revised Second
edition”New Age international Publishers,2006
3. S.Drabowitch,”Modern Antennas” Second edition,Springer Publications,2007
4. Robert S.Elliott”Antenna theory and Design”Wiley student edition,2006
5. H.Sizun” Radio Wave Propagation for Telecommunication Applications”First
Indian Reprint, Springer Publications,2007


EC9355 DIGITAL VLSI L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE 9
NMOS and PMOS transistors, Process parameters for MOS and CMOS, Electrical
properties of CMOS circuits and device modeling, Scaling principles and fundamental
limits, CMOS inverter scaling, propagation delays, Stick diagram, Layout diagrams

UNIT II COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9
Examples of Combinational Logic Design, Elmore’s constant, Pass transistor Logic,
Transmission gates, static and dynamic CMOS design, Power dissipation – Low
power design principles

UNIT III SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9
Static and Dynamic Latches and Registers, Timing issues, pipelines, clock strategies,
Memory architecture and memory control circuits, Low power memory circuits,
Synchronous and Asynchronous design

UNIT IV DESIGNING ARITHEMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS 9
Data path circuits, Architectures for ripple carry adders, carry look ahead adders,
High speed adders, accumulators, Multipliers, dividers, Barrel shifters, speed and
area tradeoff

UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES 9
Full custom and Semi custom design, Standard cell design and cell libraries, FPGA
building block architectures, FPGA interconnect routing procedures.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS
1 Jan Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, B.Nikolic, “Digital Integrated circuits: A
design perspective”. Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2003.
2 M.J. Smith, “Application specific integrated circuits”, Addisson Wesley, 1997

REFERENCES
1 N.Weste, K.Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI DESIGN”, second edition,
Addision Wesley 1993
2 R.Jacob Baker, Harry W.LI., David E.Boyee, “CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and
Simulation”, 2005 Prentice Hall of India
3 A.Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, “BASIC VLSI DESIGN”, Third edition, Prentice
Hall of India, 2007.


EC9356 ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN LAB L T P C
0 0 3 2

1. Design of switched mode power supply
2. Design of AC/DC voltage regulator using SCR
3. Design of FM transceiver
4. Design of wireless data modem
5. Design of Audio power amplifier with speaker AGC load with AGC circuit.
6. Design of VCO
7. Design of voltage to frequency converter
8. Delta modulator and demodulator
9. 3.5 Digital Voltmeter
10. Design of PRBS generator clocked by CMOS crystal oscillator
11. Numerical controlled oscillator using VHDL.
12. Huffman encoder and decoder using VHDL.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

EC 9357 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS LAB L T P C
0 0 3 2


1. Bio-Amplifiers
2. Recording of ECG signal and analysis.
3. Recording of audiogram.
4. Recording of EMG.
5. Study and analysis of safety aspects of surgical diathermy.
6. Monitoring of electrical safety of hospital equipments.
7. Measurement of PH, PO2 and conductivity.
8. Recording of various physiological parameters using patient monitoring system
and telemetry units.
9. Bio-signal processing using MATLAB
10. Medical Imaging using MATLAB
11. Study of spectra of bio signals using spectrum analyzer.
12. Study of Magnetic tape recorder

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS


EC 9358 NETWORKING LAB L T P C
0 0 3 2

1. Analysis of logical link control layer protocols – Stop & wait, Sliding window

2. Analysis of MAC protocols – ALOHA, SLOTTED ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD,
TOKEN BUS, TOKEN RING.
3. Client / Server communication using TCP / UDP Socket programming
4. Data packet scheduling, Congestion control, transmission flow control algorithms
5. Switches / Routers
6. Wi-Fi Physical Layer
7. Wi-Fi MAC Layer
8. Cryptography (Network Security)
9. NS2 based Simulation

EC 9358 Networking Laboratory syllabus download

EC 9358 NETWORKING LAB L T P C
0 0 3 2

1. Analysis of logical link control layer protocols – Stop & wait, Sliding window

2. Analysis of MAC protocols – ALOHA, SLOTTED ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD,
TOKEN BUS, TOKEN RING.
3. Client / Server communication using TCP / UDP Socket programming
4. Data packet scheduling, Congestion control, transmission flow control algorithms
5. Switches / Routers
6. Wi-Fi Physical Layer
7. Wi-Fi MAC Layer
8. Cryptography (Network Security)
9. NS2 based Simulation

EC 9357 Medical Electronics Lab syllabus download

EC 9357 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS LAB L T P C
0 0 3 2


1. Bio-Amplifiers
2. Recording of ECG signal and analysis.
3. Recording of audiogram.
4. Recording of EMG.
5. Study and analysis of safety aspects of surgical diathermy.
6. Monitoring of electrical safety of hospital equipments.
7. Measurement of PH, PO2 and conductivity.
8. Recording of various physiological parameters using patient monitoring system
and telemetry units.
9. Bio-signal processing using MATLAB
10. Medical Imaging using MATLAB
11. Study of spectra of bio signals using spectrum analyzer.
12. Study of Magnetic tape recorder

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

EC 9356 Electronic system Design lab syllabus download

EC9356 ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN LAB L T P C
0 0 3 2

1. Design of switched mode power supply
2. Design of AC/DC voltage regulator using SCR
3. Design of FM transceiver
4. Design of wireless data modem
5. Design of Audio power amplifier with speaker AGC load with AGC circuit.
6. Design of VCO
7. Design of voltage to frequency converter
8. Delta modulator and demodulator
9. 3.5 Digital Voltmeter
10. Design of PRBS generator clocked by CMOS crystal oscillator
11. Numerical controlled oscillator using VHDL.
12. Huffman encoder and decoder using VHDL.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

EC 9355 Digital VLSI syllabus download

EC9355 DIGITAL VLSI L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE 9
NMOS and PMOS transistors, Process parameters for MOS and CMOS, Electrical
properties of CMOS circuits and device modeling, Scaling principles and fundamental
limits, CMOS inverter scaling, propagation delays, Stick diagram, Layout diagrams

UNIT II COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9
Examples of Combinational Logic Design, Elmore’s constant, Pass transistor Logic,
Transmission gates, static and dynamic CMOS design, Power dissipation – Low
power design principles

UNIT III SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9
Static and Dynamic Latches and Registers, Timing issues, pipelines, clock strategies,
Memory architecture and memory control circuits, Low power memory circuits,
Synchronous and Asynchronous design

UNIT IV DESIGNING ARITHEMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS 9
Data path circuits, Architectures for ripple carry adders, carry look ahead adders,
High speed adders, accumulators, Multipliers, dividers, Barrel shifters, speed and
area tradeoff

UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES 9
Full custom and Semi custom design, Standard cell design and cell libraries, FPGA
building block architectures, FPGA interconnect routing procedures.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS
1 Jan Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, B.Nikolic, “Digital Integrated circuits: A
design perspective”. Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2003.
2 M.J. Smith, “Application specific integrated circuits”, Addisson Wesley, 1997

REFERENCES
1 N.Weste, K.Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI DESIGN”, second edition,
Addision Wesley 1993
2 R.Jacob Baker, Harry W.LI., David E.Boyee, “CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and
Simulation”, 2005 Prentice Hall of India
3 A.Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, “BASIC VLSI DESIGN”, Third edition, Prentice
Hall of India, 2007.

EC 9354 Antennas and Wave Propagation syllabus download

EC9354 ANTENNAS AND WAVE PROPAGATION L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIATION 9
Definition of antenna parameters – Gain, Directivity, Effective aperture, Radiation
Resistance, Band width, Beam width, Input Impedance. Matching – Baluns,
Polarization mismatch, Antenna noise temperature, Radiation from oscillating dipole,
Half wave dipole. Folded dipole, Yagi array.

UNIT II APERTURE AND SLOT ANTENNAS 9
Radiation from rectangular apertures, Uniform and Tapered aperture, Horn antenna ,
Reflector antenna , Aperture blockage , Feeding structures , Slot antennas
,Microstrip antennas – Radiation mechanism – Application ,Numerical tool for
antenna analysis

UNIT III ANTENNA ARRAYS 9
N element linear array, Pattern multiplication, Broadside and End fire array –
Concept of Phased arrays, Adaptive array, Basic principle of antenna SynthesisBinomial array

UNIT IV SPECIAL ANTENNAS 9
Principle of frequency independent antennas –Spiral antenna, Helical antenna, Log
periodic. Modern antennas- Reconfigurable antenna, Active antenna, Dielectric
antennas, Electronic band gap structure and applications, Antenna MeasurementsTest Ranges, Measurement of Gain, Radiation pattern, Polarization, VSWR

UNIT V PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES 9
Modes of propagation , Structure of atmosphere , Ground wave propagation,
Tropospheric propagation , Duct propagation , Troposcatter propagation , Flat earth
and Curved earth concept ,Sky wave propagation – Virtual height ,critical frequency ,
Maximum usable frequency – Skip distance , Fading , Multi hop propagation.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. John D Kraus,” Antennas for all applications”,3 Ed, McGraw Hill, 2005
2. Edward C.Jordan and Keith G.Balmain”Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating
Systems”Prentice Hall of India,2006


REFERENCES
1. Constantine.A.Balanis”Antenna Theory Analysis and Design” Wiley student
edition,2006
2. Rajeswari Chatterjee,:”Antenna Theory and Practice”Revised Second
edition”New Age international Publishers,2006
3. S.Drabowitch,”Modern Antennas” Second edition,Springer Publications,2007
4. Robert S.Elliott”Antenna theory and Design”Wiley student edition,2006
5. H.Sizun” Radio Wave Propagation for Telecommunication Applications”First
Indian Reprint, Springer Publications,2007

EC 9353 Communication Networks syllabus download

EC9353 COMMUNICATION NETWORKS L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS AND PHYSICAL LAYER 9
Introduction to Networks, definition of layers, services, interface and protocols. OSI
reference model- layers and duties. TCP/IP reference model – layers and duties.
Physical layer- general description, characteristics, signaling media types, topologies,
examples physical layer (RS232C, ISDN, ATM,SONET)

UNIT II DATA LINK LAYER AND NETWORK INTERCONNECTION 9
Logical link control Functions:- Framming, Flow control , Error control: CRC, LLC
protocols:- HDLC, P to P. Medium access layer:- Random access, Controlled access,
Channelization, IEEE standards:- 802.3, 802.4 and 802.5. Internetworking,
Interconnection issues, Interconnection devices:- Repeaters, Hubs, Routers/switches
and Gateways.

UNITIII MESSAGE ROUTING TECHNOLOGIES 9
Circuit switching, packet switching, message switching. Internet protocols; IPV4,
IPV6, ARP, RARP, ICMP, IGMP, VPN. Network Routing Algorithms: - Distance
vector routing, OSPF, Dijikstra’s , Bellaman Ford, Congestion control algorithms.

UNIT IV END-END PROTOCOLS AND  SECURITY 9
Process-process delivery:- TCP, UDP and SCTP. Application protocols:
WWW,HTTP,FTP and TELNET, Network management protocol: SNMP, Network
security.

UNIT V DIGITAL SWITCHING 9
Switching functions, Space Division Switch, Time Division Switch, STS switching,
TST switching, No 4 ESS Toll switch, digital cross connect systems.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Behrouz.A. Forouzan, Data Communication And Networking, 4th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2007.
2. John C. Bellamy, Digital Telephony, 3rd Edition, John Wiley 2006.


REFERENCES
1. Stallings.W., Data And Computer Communication, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 1996
2. Tanenboum, A.S, Computer Netwotks, 3rd
Edition , Prentice Hall Of India, 1996
3. Keshav.S. An Engineering Approach To Computer Networking, Addision –
Wesley,1999.
4. J.E.Flood, Telecommunication Switching, Traffic and networks, Ist edition,
Pearson Education, 2006

EC 9352 Wireless communication syllabus download

EC9352 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I WIRELESS CHANNELS 9
Large scale path loss – Path loss models -Link Budget design – small scale fading-
Fading due to Multipath time delay spread – flat fading – frequency selective fading –
Fading due to Doppler spread – fast fading – slow fading – Parameters of mobile
multipath channels – Time dispersion parameters-coherence bandwidth – Doppler
spread & Coherence time.

UNIT II CELLULAR ARCHITECTURE 9
Evolution of Mobile Communication- trends in Cellular radio and personal
communications- Cellular concept-Frequency reuse - channel assignment- hand off-
interference & system capacity- trunking & grade of service.

UNIT III DIGITAL SIGNALING FOR FADING CHANNELS 9
Structure of a wireless communication link, Modulation and demodulation –
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, pi/4-Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying,
Offset-Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, Binary Frequency Shift Keying, Minimum Shift
Keying, Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying, Power spectrum and Error performance in
fading channels, OFDM principle – Transceiver implementation, Cyclic prefix, PAPR,
Intercarrier interference.

UNIT IV MULTIPATH MITIGATION TECHNIQUES 9
Diversity – Micro- and Macrodiversity, Diversity combining techniques, Error
probability in fading channels with diversity reception, Rake receiver, MIMO systems
– Spatial Multiplexing, System Model, Channel state information, Capacity in fading
and non-fading channels.

UNIT V WIRELESS STANDARDS 9
Principles of Spread Spectrum Techniques, FDMA, TDMA & CDMA -Capacity
Calculations – GSM & GPRS, CDMA in IS-95 / CDMA 2000, Wi-Fi, WiMax.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Andreas.F. Molisch, “Wireless Communications”, John Wiley – India, 2006.
2. Rappaport,T.S., “Wireless communications”, Pearson Education, 2003.


REFERENCES
1. David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, “Fundamentals of Wireless Communication”,
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2. Gordon L. Stuber, “Principles of Mobile Communication”, Springer International
Ltd., 2001.
3. Simon Haykins & Michael Moher, “Modern Wireless Communications”, Pearson
Education, 2007.
4. Vijay. K. Garg, “Wireless Communication and Networking”, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 2007.
5. Blake,R., Wireless Communication Technology, Thomson Delmar, 2003.
6. Lee,W.C.Y., Mobile Communication Engineering, McGraw Hill, 1998.
7. Van Nee, R. and Ramji Prasad, OFDM for wireless multimedia
communications, Artech House, 2000.

EC 9351 Medical Electronics syllabus download

EC9351 MEDICAL ELECTRONICS L T P C
3 0 0 3

UNIT I 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.

UNIT II 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, differential count.

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

UNIT IV PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND BIO-TELEMETRY 9
Diathermies – Short-wave, ultrasonic and microwave type and their applications,
medical stimulator, Telemetry principles, frequency selection, Bio-telemetry, radiopill and tele-stimulation, electrical safety.

UNIT V RECENT TRENDS IN MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION 9
Thermograph, endoscopy unit, Laser in medicine, Surgical diathermy, cryogenic
application, introduction to telemedicine.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS


TEXT BOOKS
1. John G.Webster, “Medical Instrumentation Application and Design”, John Wiley
and Sons, (Asia) Pvt.Ltd., 2004.
2. Lesile Cromwell, “Biomedical instrumentation and measurement”, Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi, 2007.

REFERENCES
1. Khandpur, R.S. “Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation”, Tata McGraw-Hill,
New Delhi, Second edition, 2003.
2. Joseph.J, Carr and John M.Brown, “Introduction to Biomedical equipment
technology”, Pearson Education Inc.2004.

EC 9309 Communication System lab syllabus download

EC9309 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM LAB 
                                                                                                 LTPC                        0 0 3 2
1. Sampling and signal reconstruction

2. Time Division Multiplexing
3. AM / FM Modulator Demodulator and
4. Pulse Code Modulation and Demodulation
5. Delta Modulation and Demodulation
6. Line coding schemes
7. FSK, PSK and DPSK schemes (MATLAB simulation)
8. Error control coding schemes (MATLAB simulation)
9. Spread spectrum modulation (MATLAB simulation)
10. Communication system simulation using ADS

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

EC 9308 Digital Signal Processing Syllabus download

EC9308 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING LAB LTPC
                                                                                                                         0 0 3 2
 
MATLAB / SOFTWARE PACKAGE EQUIVALENT (30% OF THE RACE)
1. Generation of sequences (functional & random), correlation and convolution
2. Spectrum Analysis using FFT
3. Filter Design & Analysis
4. Filter Implementation in time & frequency domain-domain
5. Study of Quantization errors in DSP algorithms
6. Multirate Filters
7. Adaptive filter
8. Equalization
9. Echo Cancellation

DSP PROCESSOR IMPLEMENTATION (70% OF THE RACE)

1. Waveform Generation
2. FIR Implementation
3. IIR Implementation
4. FFT
5. Finite Word Length Effect
6. Multirate filters

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS