ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING SEMESTER 6 SYLLABUS

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING SEMESTER 6 SYLLABUS

SUBJECTS

MG6851 Principles of Management
CS6303 Computer Architecture
CS6551 Computer Networks
EC6601 VLSI Design
EC6602 Antenna and Wave propagation
Elective I
EC6611 Computer Networks Laboratory
EC6612 VLSI Design Laboratory
GE6674 Communication and Soft Skills - Laboratory Based

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MG6851 Principles of Management

L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
To enable the students to study the evolution of Management, to study the functions and principles of management and to learn the application of the principles in an organization .

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UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS
Definition of Management – Science or Art – Manager Vs Entrepreneur - types of managers - managerial roles and skills – Evolution of Management – Scientific, human relations , system and contingency approaches – Types of Business organization - Sole proprietorship, partnership, company-public and private sector enterprises - Organization culture and Environment – Current trends and issues in Management.

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UNIT II PLANNING
Nature and purpose of planning – planning process – types of planning – objectives – setting objectives – policies – Planning premises – Strategic Management – Planning Tools and Techniques – Decision making steps and process.

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UNIT III ORGANISING
Nature and purpose – Formal and informal organization – organization chart – organization structure – types – Line and staff authority – departmentalization – delegation of authority – centralization and decentralization – Job Design - Human Resource Management – HR Planning, Recruitment, selection, Training and Development, Performance Management , Career planning and management.

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UNIT IV DIRECTING
Foundations of individual and group behaviour – motivation – motivation theories – motivational techniques – job satisfaction – job enrichment – leadership – types and theories of leadership – communication – process of communication – barrier in communication – effective communication – communication and IT.

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UNIT V CONTROLLING
System and process of controlling – budgetary and non-budgetary control techniques – use of computers and IT in Management control – Productivity problems and management – control and performance – direct and preventive control – reporting.
TEXTBOOKS:
1. Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter, “Management”, Prentice Hall (India)Pvt. Ltd., 10th Edition, 2009.
2. JAF Stoner, Freeman R.E and Daniel R Gilbert “Management”, 6th Edition, Pearson Education, 2004.
REFERENCES:
1. Stephen A. Robbins & David A. Decenzo & Mary Coulter, “Fundamentals of Management” 7th Edition, Pearson Education, 2011.
2. Robert Kreitner & Mamata Mohapatra, “ Management”, Biztantra, 2008.
3. Harold Koontz & Heinz Weihrich, “Essentials of Management”, Tata McGraw Hill, 1998.
4. Tripathy PC & Reddy PN, “Principles of Management”, Tata Mcgraw Hill, 1999
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CS6303 Computer Architecture

L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
To make students understand the basic structure and operation of digital computer. To understand the hardware-software interface.
To familiarize the students with arithmetic and logic unit and implementation of fixed point and floating-point arithmetic operations.
To expose the students to the concept of pipelining.
To familiarize the students with hierarchical memory system including cache memories and virtual memory.
To expose the students with different ways of communicating with I/O devices and standard I/O interfaces.

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UNIT I OVERVIEW & INSTRUCTIONS
Eight ideas – Components of a computer system – Technology – Performance – Power wall – Uniprocessors to multiprocessors; Instructions – operations and operands – representing instructions – Logical operations – control operations – Addressing and addressing modes.

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UNIT II ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS
ALU - Addition and subtraction – Multiplication – Division – Floating Point operations – Subword parallelism.

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UNIT III PROCESSOR AND CONTROL

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Basic MIPS implementation – Building datapath – Control Implementation scheme – Pipelining – Pipelined datapath and control – Handling Data hazards & Control hazards – Exceptions.

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UNIT IV PARALLELISM
Instruction-level-parallelism – Parallel processing challenges – Flynn's classification – Hardware multithreading – Multicore processors

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UNIT V MEMORY AND I/O SYSTEMS
Memory hierarchy - Memory technologies – Cache basics – Measuring and improving cache performance - Virtual memory, TLBs - Input/output system, programmed I/O, DMA and interrupts, I/O processors.
TEXT BOOK:
1. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessey, “Computer organization and design’, Morgan Kauffman / Elsevier, Fifth edition, 2014.
REFERENCES:
1. V.Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Varanesic and Safat G. Zaky, “Computer Organisation“, VI th edition, Mc Graw-Hill Inc, 2012.
2. William Stallings “Computer Organization and Architecture” , Seventh Edition , Pearson Education, 2006.
3. Vincent P. Heuring, Harry F. Jordan, “Computer System Architecture”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2005.
4. Govindarajalu, “Computer Architecture and Organization, Design Principles and Applications", first edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2005.
5. John P. Hayes, “Computer Architecture and Organization”, Third Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 1998.
6. http://nptel.ac.in/.
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CS6551 Computer Networks

L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:
Understand the division of network functionalities into layers.
Be familiar with the components required to build different types of networks
Be exposed to the required functionality at each layer
Learn the flow control and congestion control algorithms

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UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS & LINK LAYER
Building a network – Requirements - Layering and protocols - Internet Architecture – Network software – Performance ; Link layer Services - Framing - Error Detection - Flow control

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UNIT II MEDIA ACCESS & INTERNETWORKING
Media access control - Ethernet (802.3) - Wireless LANs – 802.11 – Bluetooth - Switching and bridging – Basic Internetworking (IP, CIDR, ARP, DHCP,ICMP )

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UNIT III ROUTING
Routing (RIP, OSPF, metrics) – Switch basics – Global Internet (Areas, BGP, IPv6), Multicast – addresses – multicast routing (DVMRP, PIM)

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UNIT IV TRANSPORT LAYER
Overview of Transport layer - UDP - Reliable byte stream (TCP) - Connection management - Flow control - Retransmission – TCP Congestion control - Congestion avoidance (DECbit, RED) – QoS – Application requirements

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UNIT V APPLICATION LAYER
Traditional applications -Electronic Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MIME) – HTTP – Web Services – DNS - SNMP
TEXT BOOK:

1. Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie, “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach”, Fifth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2011. REFERENCES:
1. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, “Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2009.
2. Nader. F. Mir, “Computer and Communication Networks”, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishers, 2010.
3. Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Fred Baker, “Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach”, Mc Graw Hill Publisher, 2011.
4. Behrouz A. Forouzan, “Data communication and Networking”, Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw – Hill, 2011.
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EC6601 VLSI Design

L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
In this course, the MOS circuit realization of the various building blocks that is common to any microprocessor or digital VLSI circuit is studied.
Architectural choices and performance tradeoffs involved in designing and realizing the circuits in CMOS technology are discussed.
The main focus in this course is on the transistor circuit level design and realization for digital operation and the issues involved as well as the topics covered are quite distinct from those encountered in courses on CMOS Analog IC design.

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UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE
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

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

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UNIT III SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS
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

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

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UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
Full custom and Semi custom design, Standard cell design and cell libraries, FPGA building block architectures, FPGA interconnect routing procedures.
TEXTBOOKS:
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”, Prentice Hall of India 2005
3. A.Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, “BASIC VLSI Design”, Third Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2007.
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EC6602 Antenna and Wave propagation

L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVES:
To give insight of the radiation phenomena.
To give a thorough understanding of the radiation characteristics of different types of antennas
To create awareness about the different types of propagation of radio waves at different frequencies

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UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIATION
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.

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UNIT II APERTURE AND SLOT ANTENNAS
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

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

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UNIT IV SPECIAL ANTENNAS
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 Measurements-Test Ranges, Measurement of Gain, Radiation pattern, Polarization, VSWR

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UNIT V PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES
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
TEXT BOOK:
1. John D Kraus,” Antennas for all Applications”, 3rd Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 2005.
REFERENCES:
1. Edward C.Jordan and Keith G.Balmain” Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating Systems” Prentice Hall of India, 2006
2. R.E.Collin,”Antennas and Radiowave Propagation”, Mc Graw Hill 1985.
3. Constantine.A.Balanis “Antenna Theory Analysis and Design”, Wiley Student Edition, 2006.
4. Rajeswari Chatterjee, “Antenna Theory and Practice” Revised Second Edition New Age International Publishers, 2006.
5. S. Drabowitch, “Modern Antennas” Second Edition, Springer Publications, 2007.
6. Robert S.Elliott “Antenna Theory and Design” Wiley Student Edition, 2006.
7. H.Sizun “Radio Wave Propagation for Telecommunication Applications”, First Indian Reprint, Springer Publications, 2007.
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Elective I

1. EC6001 Medical Electronics
2. EC6002 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
3. CS6401 Operating Systems
4. EC6003 Robotics and Automation
REFER ELECTIVE SECTION
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EC6611 Computer Networks Laboratory

L T P C
0 0 3 2
OBJECTIVES:
The student should be made to:
Learn to communicate between two desktop computers.
Learn to implement the different protocols
Be familiar with socket programming.
Be familiar with the various routing algorithms
Be familiar with simulation tools.
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:
1. Implementation of Error Detection / Error Correction Techniques
2. Implementation of Stop and Wait Protocol and sliding window
3. Implementation and study of Goback-N and selective repeat protocols
4. Implementation of High Level Data Link Control
5. Study of Socket Programming and Client – Server model
6. Write a socket Program for Echo/Ping/Talk commands.
7. To create scenario and study the performance of network with CSMA / CA protocol
and compare with CSMA/CD protocols.
8. Network Topology - Star, Bus, Ring
9. Implementation of distance vector routing algorithm
10. Implementation of Link state routing algorithm
11. Study of Network simulator (NS) and simulation of Congestion Control Algorithms using NS
12. Encryption and decryption.
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EC6612 VLSI Design Laboratory

L T P C
0 0 3 2
OBJECTIVES:
To learn Hardware Descriptive Language(Verilog/VHDL)
To learn the fundamental principles of VLSI circuit design in digital and analog domain
To familiarise fusing of logical modules on FPGAs
To provide hands on design experience with professional design (EDA) platforms.
. LIST OF EXPERIMENTS FPGA BASED EXPERIMENTS.
1. HDL based design entry and simulation of simple counters, state machines, adders (min 8 bit) and multipliers (4 bit min).
2. Synthesis, P&R and post P&R simulation of the components simulated in (I) above. Critical paths and static timing analysis results to be identified. Identify and verify possible conditions under which the blocks will fail to work correctly.
3. Hardware fusing and testing of each of the blocks simulated in (I). Use of either chipscope feature (Xilinx) or the signal tap feature (Altera) is a must. Invoke the PLL and demonstrate the use of the PLL module for clock generation in FPGAs.
IC DESIGN EXPERIMENTS: (BASED ON CADENCE / MENTOR GRAPHICS / EQUIVALENT)
4. Design and simulation of a simple 5 transistor differential amplifier. Measure gain, ICMR, and CMRR
5. Layout generation, parasitic extraction and resimulation of the circuit designed in (I)
6. Synthesis and Standard cell based design of an circuits simulated in 1(I) above. Identification of critical paths, power consumption.
7. For expt (c) above, P&R, power and clock routing, and post P&R simulation.
8. Analysis of results of static timing analysis.
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GE6674 Communication and Soft Skills - Laboratory Based

L T P C
0 0 4 2
OBJECTIVES:
To provide opportunities to learners to practice their communicative skills to make them become proficient users of English.
To enable learners to fine-tune their linguistic skills (LSRW) with the help of technology to communicate globally.
To enhance the performance of learners at placement interviews and group discussions and other recruitment procedures.

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UNIT I LISTENING/VIEWING
Listening and note-taking – Listening to telephonic conversations – Ted talks – Inspiring Speeches – Watching documentaries on personalities, places, socio-cultural events, TV news programmes and discussions to answer different kinds questions, viz., identifying key idea and comprehension questions… so on.

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UNIT II SPEAKING Conversation practice – Interview – Group Discussion – Introducing oneself and others – Role play – Debate – Presentation – Panel discussion – Neutral accent.

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UNIT III READING
Different genres of text (literature, media, technical) for comprehension – Reading strategies like note-making – reading graphs, charts and graphic organizer – Sequencing sentences – reading online sources like e-books, e-journals and e-newspapers.

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UNIT IV WRITING
Blogs – Tweets – Online resume/ – e-mails – SMS and Online texting – Report writing – Describing charts and tables – Writing for media on current events.

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UNIT V VOCABULARY 8 Idioms and Phrases – Proverbs – Collocations – Chunks of language.

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UNIT VI GRAMMAR 8 Sentence structures – Subject-Verb agreement – Pronoun-Antecedent agreement – Tense forms – Active and passive voices – Direct and Indirect speeches – Cohesive devices.
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