IES ECE SYLLABUS

General English
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General Knowledge
eneral !nowledge in"luding #nowledge of "urrent events and $atters of every day observation and
e%perien"e. The #nowledge of s"ientifi" aspe"ts of everyday life is e%pe"ted at the level of an edu"ated
person. The paper will also in"lude &uestions on 'istory of India and eography of a nature whi"h the
"andidate should be able to answer without spe"ial study.
Paper I
1. MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS
Structure and properties of Electrical Engineering aterials! Conductors" Seiconductors and
Insulators" agnetic" #erroelectric" Pie$oelectric" Ceraic" Optical and Super%conducting
aterials. Passi&e coponents and c'aracteristics Resistors" Capacitors and Inductors!
#errites" (uart$ cr)stal Ceraic resonators" Electroagnetic and Electroec'anical
coponents.
*. P+,SICAL ELECTRONICS" ELECTRON DE-ICES AND ICs
Electrons and 'oles in seiconductors" Carrier Statistics" Mec'anis of current flo. in a
seiconductor" +all effect! /unction t'eor)! Different t)pes of diodes and t'eir c'aracteristics!
0ipolar /unction transistor! #ield effect transistors! Po.er s.itc'ing de&ices li1e SCRs" 2TOs"
po.er MOS#ETS! 0asics of ICs % 3ipolar" MOS and CMOS t)pes! 3asic of Opto Electronics.
4. SI2NALS AND S,STEMS
Classification of signals and s)stes5 S)ste odelling in ters of differential and difference
e6uations! State &aria3le representation! #ourier series! #ourier transfors and t'eir
application to s)ste anal)sis! Laplace transfors and t'eir application to s)ste anal)sis!
Con&olution and superposition integrals and t'eir applications! 7%transfors and t'eir
applications to t'e anal)sis and c'aracterisation of discrete tie s)stes! Rando signals
and pro3a3ilit)" Correlation functions! Spectral densit)! Response of linear s)ste to rando
inputs.
8. NET9OR: T+EOR,
Net.or1 anal)sis tec'ni6ues! Net.or1 t'eores" transient response" stead) state sinusoidal
response! Net.or1 grap's and t'eir applications in net.or1 anal)sis! Tellegen;s t'eore. T.o
port net.or1s! 7" ," ' and transission paraeters. Co3ination of t.o ports" anal)sis of
coon t.o ports. Net.or1 functions 5 parts of net.or1 functions" o3taining a net.or1
function fro a gi&en part. Transission criteria 5 dela) and rise tie" Elore;s and ot'er
definitions effect of cascading. Eleents of net.or1 s)nt'esis.
<. ELECTROMA2NETIC T+EOR,
Anal)sis of electrostatic and agnetostatic fields! Laplace;s and Poisson;s e6uations!
0oundar) &alue pro3les and t'eir solutions! Ma=.ell;s e6uations! application to .a&e
propagation in 3ounded and un3ounded edia! Transission lines 5 3asic t'eor)" standing
.a&es" atc'ing applications" icrostrip lines! 0asics of .a&e guides and resonators!
Eleents of antenna t'eor).
>. ELECTRONIC MEAS?REMENTS AND INSTR?MENTATION
0asic concepts" standards and error anal)sis! Measureents of 3asic electrical 6uantities and
paraeters! Electronic easuring instruents and t'eir principles of .or1ing 5 analog and
digital" coparison" c'aracteristics" application. Transducers! Electronic easureents of
non electrical 6uantities li1e teperature" pressure" 'uidit) etc! 3asics of teleetr) for
industrial use.
Paper II
1. ANALO2 ELECTRONIC CIRC?ITS
Transistor 3iasing and sta3ili$ation. Sall signal anal)sis. Po.er aplifiers. #re6uenc)
response. 9ide 3anding tec'ni6ues. #eed3ac1 aplifiers. Tuned aplifiers. Oscillators.
Rectifiers and po.er supplies. Op Ap" PLL" ot'er linear integrated circuits and applications.
Pulse s'aping circuits and .a&efor generators.
*. DI2ITAL ELECTRONIC CIRC?ITS
Transistor as a s.itc'ing eleent! 0oolean alge3ra" siplification of 0oolean functions"
:arnagu' ap and applications! IC Logic gates and t'eir c'aracteristics! IC logic failies 5
DTL" TTL" ECL" NMOS" PMOS and CMOS gates and t'eir coparison! Co3inational logic
Circuits! +alf adder" #ull adder! Digital coparator! Multiple=er Deulti%ple=er! ROM an t'eir
applications. #lip flops. R%S" /%:" D and T flip%flops! Different t)pes of counters and registers
9a&efor generators. A@D and D@A con&erters. Seiconductor eories.
4. CONTROL S,STEMS
Transient and stead) state response of control s)stes! Effect of feed3ac1 on sta3ilit) and
sensiti&it)! Root locus tec'ni6ues! #re6uenc) response anal)sis. Concepts of gain and p'ase
argins5 Constant%M and Constant%N Nic'ol;s C'art! Appro=iation of transient response
fro Constant%N Nic'ol;s C'art! Appro=iation of transient response fro closed loop
fre6uenc) response! Design of Control S)stes" Copensators! Industrial controllers.
8. COMM?NICATIONS S,STEMS
0asic inforation t'eor)! Modulation and detection in analogue and digital s)stes! Sapling
and data reconstructions! (uanti$ation A coding! Tie di&ision and fre6uenc) di&ision
ultiple=ing! E6uali$ation! Optical Counication 5 in free space A fi3er optic! Propagation of
signals at +#" -+#" ?+# and icro.a&e fre6uenc)! Satellite Counication.
<. MICRO9A-E EN2INEERIN2
Micro.a&e Tu3es and solid state de&ices" Micro.a&e generation and aplifiers" 9a&eguides
and ot'er Micro.a&e Coponents and Circuits" Microstrip circuits" Micro.a&e Antennas"
Micro.a&e Measureents" Masers" lasers! Micro.a&e propagation.
Micro.a&e Counication S)stes terrestrial and Satellite 3ased.
>. COMP?TER EN2INEERIN2
Nu3er S)stes. Data representation! Prograing! Eleents of a 'ig' le&el prograing
language PASCAL@C! ?se of 3asic data structures! #undaentals of coputer arc'itecture!
Processor design! Control unit design! Meor) organisation" I@o S)ste Organisation.
Microprocessors 5 Arc'itecture and instruction set of Microprocessors BCB< and BCB>"
Asse3l) language Prograing. Microprocessor 0ased s)ste design 5 t)pical e=aples.
Personal coputers and t'eir t)pical uses.