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Q. 1 Q. 25 carry one mark each.

Q.1

1 if a t b
0 otherwise

The bilateral Laplace transform of a function f (t ) =

is
(A)

Q.2

a b
s

The value of

(B)

e s ( a b)
s

5+
20
2

Q.3

Q.4

(B) 5

e s ( a b )
s

4
2
10

(C) 1 5

Let ( ) =
. If ( ) = ( ) for all
equal to _______.

(D) 1 + 5

= 2,

= 4 and = 5, then should be

dy 1 + cos 2 y
=
is
dx 1 cos 2 x

The general solution of the differential equation

(A) tan y cot x = c ( c is a constant)
(C) tan y + cot x = c ( c is a constant)

Q.5

(D)

for which all the eigen-values of the matrix given below are real is
10

(A) 5 + j

e as e bs
s

(C)

(B) tan x cot y = c ( c is a constant)

(D) tan x + cot y = c ( c is a constant)

of a periodic signal ( ) are

The magnitude and phase of the complex Fourier series coefficients
shown in the figure. Choose the correct statement from the four choices given. Notation: is the
set of complex numbers, is the set of purely real numbers, and is the set of purely imaginary
numbers.

|ak|

3
2

2
1
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0

3 4

3 4

ak

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1
0

(A) ( )
(B) ( )
(C) ( ) ( )
(D) the information given is not sufficient to draw any conclusion about ( )

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The voltage (

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) across the capacitor (in Volts) in the network shown is ______ .

80 V

40 V

~
100 V, 50 Hz

Q.7

In the circuit shown, the average value of the voltage Vab (in Volts) in steady state condition is
________.
1 k
5 sin(5000t)

Q.8

Q.9

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1 F

1 mH

Vab

2 k
5V

The 2-port admittance matrix of the circuit shown is given by

(A)

0.3 0.2
0.2 0.3

(B)

15
5

(C)

3.33
5

(D)

0.3 0.4
0.4 0.3

5
3.33

5
15

An n-type silicon sample is uniformly illuminated with light which generates 1020 electron-hole
pairs per cm3 per second. The minority carrier lifetime in the sample is 1 s. In the steady state, the
hole concentration in the sample is approximately 10x, where x is an integer. The value of x is ___.

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Q.10

A piece of silicon is doped uniformly with phosphorous with a doping concentration of

1016/cm3. The expected value of mobility versus doping concentration for silicon assuming full
dopant ionization is shown below. The charge of an electron is 1.6 10-19 C. The conductivity
(in S cm 1 ) of the silicon sample at 300 K is _______.

Q.11

If the circuit shown has to function as a clamping circuit, then which one of the following
conditions should be satisfied for the sinusoidal signal of period T ?

(A) RC << T

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(B) RC = 0.35 T

(C) RC T

(D) RC >> T

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Q.12

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In the circuit shown, V0 = V0A for switch SW in position A and V0 = V0B for SW in position B.
Assume that the opamp is ideal. The value of

V0 B
is ___________.
V0 A
1 k

1 k

5V

V0

1 k

SW

1 k
1 k

1V

Q.13

In the bistable circuit shown, the ideal opamp has saturation levels of 5 V. The value of R1 (in
k) that gives a hysteresis width of 500 mV is ________.
R2 = 20 k
R1
+

vin

Q.14

In the figure shown, the output

respectively,

is required to be

(A) NOR, OR
(C) NAND, OR
Q.15

+ . The gates G1 and G2 must be,

(B) OR, NAND

(D) AND, NAND

In an 8085 microprocessor, which one of the following instructions changes the content of the
accumulator?
(A) MOV B,M

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(B) PCHL

(C) RNZ

(D) SBI BEH

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Q.16

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A mod-n counter using a synchronous binary up-counter with synchronous clear input is shown in
the figure. The value of n is _______.
4-Bit Binary
Counter
CLOCK

CLK
CLEAR

Q.17

QA
QB
QC
QD

QA
QB
QC
QD

Let the signal ( ) = 0 outside the interval [ , ], where and are finite. Furthermore,
| ( )| < . The region of convergence (RoC) of the signals bilateral Laplace transform ( ) is
(A) a parallel strip containing the axis
(B) a parallel strip not containing the axis
(C) the entire -plane
(D) a half plane containing the axis

Q.18

Two causal discrete-time signals x[n] and y[ n ] are related as y[n] =

If the z-transform of y[n] is

Q.19

, the value of x[2]

n
m=0

x[m] .

is _______.

By performing cascading and/or summing/differencing operations using transfer function blocks

G1 ( s ) and G2 ( s ) , one CANNOT realize a transfer function of the form
(A) G1 ( s )G2 ( s )

+ G2 ( s)
G1 ( s)

(C) G1 ( s)

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(B)

G1 ( s)
G2 ( s )

G2 ( s)
G1 ( s)

(D) G1 ( s )

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Q.20

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For the signal flow graph shown in the figure, the value of

C ( s)
is
R( s)

-H3

1 X1

X3
G1

R(s)

X2

X4
G3 X5 G4

G2

-H1

Q.21

-H2

(A)

G1G2G3G4
1 G1G2 H1 G3G4 H 2 G2G3 H 3 + G1G2G3G4 H1 H 2

(B)

G1G2G3G4
1 + G1G2 H1 + G3G4 H 2 + G2G3 H 3 + G1G2G3G4 H1 H 2

(C)

1
1 + G1G2 H1 + G3G4 H 2 + G2G3 H 3 + G1G2G3G4 H1 H 2

(D)

1
1 G1G2 H1 G3G4 H 2 G2G3 H 3 + G1G2G3G4 H1 H 2

A unity negative feedback system has an open-loop transfer function

for the system to have a damping ratio of 0.25 is ________.

Q.22

Q.23

C(s)

( )=

( +10)

. The gain

A sinusoidal signal of amplitude A is quantized by a uniform quantizer. Assume that the signal
utilizes all the representation levels of the quantizer. If the signal to quantization noise ratio is 31.8
dB, the number of levels in the quantizer is _______.

The signal cos 10 t +

is ideally sampled at a sampling frequency of 15 Hz. The sampled

4

sin( t )

signal is passed through a filter with impulse response

cos 40 t . The filter
2
t

output is

15

cos 40 t
2
4

15

(C)
cos 10 t
2
4

(A)

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15 sin( t )

cos 10 t +
2 t
4

15 sin( t )

(D)

cos 40 t
2 t
2

(B)

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Q.24

In a source free region in vacuum, if the electrostatic potential

of constant must be _______.

Q.25

The electric field of a uniform plane electromagnetic wave is

=

+ 4

exp[ (2 10

= 2

, the value

0.2 )].

The polarization of the wave is

(A) right handed circular
(C) left handed circular

(B) right handed elliptical

(D) left handed elliptical

Q. 26 Q. 55 carry two marks each.

Q.26

Consider the differential equation

x(t ) for t > 0 is

(A) 2 e 0.2t
Q.27

dx
= 10 0.2 x with initial condition x(0) = 1 . The response
dt

(B) 2 e 0.2 t

The value of the integral

12 cos(2 t )

(C) 50 49e 0.2t

(D) 50 49e0.2t

sin(4 t )
dt is ___________.
4 t

Q.28

If

Q.29

Let the random variable X represent the number of times a fair coin needs to be tossed till two
consecutive heads appear for the first time. The expectation of X is _______.

Q.30

An LC tank circuit consists of an ideal capacitor C connected in parallel with a coil of inductance
L having an internal resistance R . The resonant frequency of the tank circuit is

denotes the counterclockwise unit circle, the value of the contour integral
1
{ }
2
is _______.

(A)
(C)

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1
2 LC
1
2 LC

L
R 2C

C
L
2 LC
1

2 C
(D)
1 R

L
2 LC

(B)

1 R2

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Q.31

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In the circuit shown, the Norton equivalent resistance (in ) across terminals a-b is _______.
2
a
+
-

Q.32

In the circuit shown, the initial voltages across the capacitors C1 and C2 are 1 V and 3 V,
respectively. The switch is closed at time = 0. The total energy dissipated (in Joules) in the
resistor R until steady state is reached, is __________.

Q.33

A dc voltage of 10 V is applied across an n-type silicon bar having a rectangular cross-section and a
length of 1 cm as shown in figure. The donor doping concentration ND and the mobility of electrons
n are 1016 cm-3 and 1000 cm2V-1s-1, respectively. The average time (in s) taken by the electrons
to move from one end of the bar to other end is ________.
10 V

n-Si

1 cm
Q.34

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In a MOS capacitor with an oxide layer thickness of 10 nm, the maximum depletion layer thickness
is 100 nm. The permittivities of the semiconductor and the oxide layer are s and ox respectively.
Assuming s/ox = 3, the ratio of the maximum capacitance to the minimum capacitance of this
MOS capacitor is ________.

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Q.35

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The energy band diagram and the electron density profile n(x) in a semiconductor are shown in
the figures. Assume that n(x) = 10
Given
= 0.026 V,
= 36 cm s , and

cm-3, with = 0.1 V/cm and x expressed in cm.

= . The electron current density (in A/cm ) at

x = 0 is

(A) 4.4 10
Q.36

(C) 0

(B) 2.2 10

(D) 2.2 10

A function of Boolean variables X, Y and Z is expressed in terms of the min-terms as

F(X, Y, Z) = (1, 2, 5, 6, 7)
Which one of the product of sums given below is equal to the function F(X, Y, Z)?

Q.37

(A)

(X + Y + Z ) (X + Y + Z) (X + Y + Z )

(B)

(X + Y + Z) (X + Y + Z ) (X + Y + Z)

(C)

(X + Y + Z) (X + Y + Z ) (X + Y + Z) (X + Y + Z ) (X + Y + Z)

(D)

(X + Y + Z ) (X + Y + Z) (X + Y + Z ) (X + Y + Z) (X + Y + Z )

The figure shows a binary counter with synchronous clear input. With the decoding logic shown,
the counter works as a
Binary
Counter Q3
Q2
CLK
Q
1

Q0
CLR

(A) mod-2 counter

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(B) mod-4 counter

(C) mod-5 counter

(D) mod-6 counter

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Q.38

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A 1-to-8 demultiplexer with data input Din , address inputs S0, S1, S2 (with S0 as the LSB) and
Y0 to Y7 as the eight demultiplexed outputs, is to be designed using two 2-to-4 decoders (with
enable input and address inputs A0 and A1) as shown in the figure. Din , S0, S1 and S2 are to be
connected to P, Q, R and S, but not necessarily in this order. The respective input connections to P,
Q, R, and S terminals should be
P
Q
R
S

Q.39

1E

1Y0
2-to-4
Decoder 1Y1
1A0
1Y2
1A1
1Y3

Y0
Y1
Y2
Y3

2E 2-to-4 2Y0
Decoder 2Y1
2A0
2Y2
2A1
2Y3

Y4
Y5
Y6
Y7

(A) S2, Din, S0, S1

(B) S1, Din, S0, S2

(C) Din, S0, S1, S2

(D) Din, S2, S0, S1

The diode in the circuit given below has

the 4 k resistor is _______.

= 0.7

but is ideal otherwise. The current (in mA) in

3k

2k
D 1k
1mA
4k

Q.40

6k

Assuming that the opamp in the circuit shown below is ideal, the output voltage
is________.

(in volts)

2k
12V

1k

VO

1V

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-12V

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Q.41

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For the voltage regulator circuit shown, the input voltage (Vin) is 20 V 20% and the regulated
output voltage (Vout) is 10 V. Assume the opamp to be ideal. For a load RL drawing 200 mA, the
maximum power dissipation in Q1 (in Watts) is ________.
Q1

Vin
Vref

4V

Vout
R1

RL

R2 = 10 k

Q.42

In the ac equivalent circuit shown, the two BJTs are biased in active region and have identical
parameters with >>1. The open circuit small signal voltage gain is approximately _______.

Q.43

Input

x (t ) and output y (t ) of an LTI system are related by the differential equation

y (t ) y (t ) 6 y (t ) = x (t ) . If the system is neither causal nor stable, the impulse response h (t ) of

the system is

1 3t
1
e u (t ) + e2t u (t )
5
5
1 3t
1 2t
(C) e u (t ) e u (t )
5
5

(A)

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1 3t
1
e u (t ) + e2t u (t )
5
5
1 3t
1 2t
(D) e u (t ) e u (t )
5
5
(B)

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Q.44

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Consider two real sequences with time-origin marked by the bold value,
[ ] = { , 2, 3, 0} ,
Let

Q.45

( )

( ).

[2] is ______.

Let ( ) = ( ) + ( ) with ( ) =
Laplace transform of x(t ) is

X (s) =
then the value of is _______.
Q.46

( )=

[ ] is derived by taking 4-point inverse DFT of

Another sequence
The value of

[ ] and [ ], respectively.

( ) be 4-point DFTs of

( ) and

[ ] = { , 3, 2, 1}

( ), where ( ) is unit step function. If the bilateral

16
4 < Re {s} < 4 ;
s 16
2

The state variable representation of a system is given as

0 1
x& =
x;
0 1
y = [ 0 1] x

(0) = 1
0

The response ( ) is
(A) sin(t )

Q.47

(D) 0

The output of a standard second-order system for a unit step input is given as

y (t ) = 1
(A)

Q.48

(C) 1 cos(t )

(B) 1 et

2 t

e cos 3t . The transfer function of the system is

6
3

2
( s + 2)( s + 3)

(B)

1
s + 2s + 1

(C)

3
s + 2s + 3
2

(D)

4
s + 2s + 4
2

The transfer function of a mass-spring-damper system is given by

( )=

1
+

The frequency response data for the system are given in the following table.
in rad/s
0.01
0.1
0.2
1
2
3
5
10

| ( )| in dB
-18.5
-18.5
-18.4
-16
-11.4
-21.5
-32.8
-45.3

arg ( (
-0.2
-1.3
-2.6
-16.9
-89.4
-151
-167
-174.5

)) in deg

The unit step response of the system approaches a steady state value of ________ .
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Q.49

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A zero mean white Gaussian noise having power spectral density

N0
is passed through an LTI
2

filter whose impulse response h(t ) is shown in the figure. The variance of the filtered noise at

t = 4 is
( )

(A)

3 2
A N0
2

3 2
A N0
4
1 2
(D) A N 0
2

(B)

(C) A 2 N 0

Q.50

{ X n }n= is an independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random process with equally
n =
. The
likely to be +1 or 1 . {Yn }n = is another random process obtained as = + 0.5
n =
autocorrelation function of {Yn }n = , denoted by RY[k], is
n =

(A)

(B)

RY[k]
1

-3 -2 -1 0

1.25

0.5

0.5

-3 -2 -1 0

(D)

(C)

RY[k]
0.5

-2 -1 0

RY[k]

1.25
0.5

0.25

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RY[k]

0.25

0.25
1

-3 -2 -1 0

1.25

0.25
1

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Q.51

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Consider a binary, digital communication system which uses pulses g (t ) and g (t ) for transmitting
bits over an AWGN channel. If the receiver uses a matched filter, which one of the following
pulses will give the minimum probability of bit error?

g(t)

g(t)

1
0

(A)

(C)

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t
(B)

g(t)

g(t)

1
0

t
(D)

Let {0,1} and {0,1} be two independent binary random variables. If ( = 0) =

and ( = 0) = , then ( + 1) is equal to
(A) + (1 )(1 )
(C) (1 )

Q.53

(B)
(D) 1

An air-filled rectangular waveguide of internal dimensions a cm b cm ( a > b ) has a cutoff

frequency of 6 GHz for the dominant TE10 mode. For the same waveguide, if the cutoff frequency
of the TM 11 mode is 15 GHz, the cutoff frequency of the TE01 mode in GHz is __________.

Q.54

Two half-wave dipole antennas placed as shown in the figure are excited with sinusoidally varying
currents of frequency 3 MHz and phase shift of /2 between them (the element at the origin leads in
phase). If the maximum radiated E-field at the point P in the x-y plane occurs at an azimuthal angle
of 60, the distance d (in meters) between the antennas is _________.
z

O
d
60
x

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y
OP >> d
P

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Q.55

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The electric field of a plane wave propagating in a lossless non-magnetic medium is given by the
following expression
( , )=

5 cos(2 10

)+

3 cos 2 10

The type of the polarization is

(A) Right Hand Circular.
(C) Right Hand Elliptical.

(B) Left Hand Elliptical.

(D) Linear.

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