B.E.

: Electronics & Communication Engineering

VI SEMESTER
Teaching Teaching Hours Credits
Examination
Sl. Course Department /Week
Title
No Code
Practical/ Duration SEE CIE Total
Theory
Drawing in hours Marks Marks Marks
1 17EC61 Digital Communication EC 04 03 60 40 100 4
2 17EC62 ARM Microcontroller & Embedded Systems EC 04 03 60 40 100 4
3 17EC63 VLSI Design EC 04 03 60 40 100 4
4 17EC64 Computer Communication Networks EC 04 03 60 40 100 4
5 17EC65X Professional Elective-2 EC 03 03 60 40 100 3
6 17EC66X Open Elective-2 EC 03 03 60 40 100 3
01-Hour Instruction 2
7 17ECL67 Embedded Controller Lab EC 03 60 40 100
02-Hour Practical
01-Hour Instruction 2
8 17ECL68 Computer Networks Lab EC 03 60 40 100
02-Hour Practical
Theory: 22hours
TOTAL 24 480 320 800 26
Practical: 06 hours

Professional Elective-2 Open Elective – 2*** (List offered by EC/TC Board only)
17EC651 Cellular Mobile Communication 17EC661 Data Structures Using C++
17EC652 Adaptive Signal Processing 17EC662 Power Electronics (not for E&C students)
17EC653 Artificial Neural Networks 17EC663 Digital System Design using Verilog
17EC654 Digital Switching Systems
17EC655 Microelectronics
***Students can select any one of the open electives offered by any Department (Please refer to consolidated list of VTU for open electives).
Selection of an open elective is not allowed, if:
· The candidate has no pre – requisite knowledge.
· The candidate has studied similar content course during previous semesters.
· The syllabus content of the selected open elective is similar to that of Departmental core course(s) or to be studied Professional elective(s).
Registration to open electives shall be documented under the guidance of Programme Coordinator and Adviser.

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 B.E E&C SIXTH SEMESTER SYLLABUS

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
B.E., VI Semester, Electronics & Communication Engineering/
Telecommunication Engineering
[As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) Scheme]

Course Code 17EC61 CIE 40

Marks
Number of 04 SEE 60
Lecture Marks
Hours/Week
Total Number of 50 (10 Hours/Module) Exam 03
Lecture Hours Hours
CREDITS – 04
Course Objectives: The objectives of the course is to enable students to:
Understand the mathematical representation of signal, symbol, noise and
channels.
Apply the concept of signal conversion to symbols and signal processing to
symbols in transmitter and receiver functional blocks.
Compute performance issues and parameters for symbol processing and
recovery in ideal and corrupted channel conditions.
Compute performance parameters and mitigate for these parameters in
corrupted and distorted channel conditions.

Module-1
Bandpass Signal to Equivalent Lowpass: Hilbert Transform, Pre-envelopes,
Complex envelopes, Canonical representation of bandpass signals, Complex low pass
representation of bandpass systems, Complex representation of band pass signals
and systems (Text 1: 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13).
Line codes: Unipolar, Polar, Bipolar (AMI) and Manchester code and their power
spectral densities (Text 1: Ch 6.10).
Overview of HDB3, B3ZS, B6ZS (Ref. 1: 7.2) L1, L2, L3
Module-2
Signaling over AWGN Channels- Introduction, Geometric representation of signals,
Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization procedure, Conversion of the continuous AWGN
channel into a vector channel, Optimum receivers using coherent detection: ML
Decoding, Correlation receiver, matched filter receiver (Text 1: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4).
L1, L2, L3
Module-3
Digital Modulation Techniques: Phase shift Keying techniques using coherent
detection: generation, detection and error probabilities of BPSK and QPSK, M–ary
PSK, M–ary QAM (Relevant topics in Text 1 of 7.6, 7.7).

Frequency shift keying techniques using Coherent detection: BFSK generation,

detection and error probability (Relevant topics in Text 1 of 7.8).

Non coherent orthogonal modulation techniques: BFSK, DPSK Symbol representation,

Block diagrams treatment of Transmitter and Receiver, Probability of error (without
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derivation of probability of error equation) (Text 1: 7.11, 7.12. 7.13). L1, L2, L3

Module-4
Communication through Band Limited Channels: Digital Transmission through
Band limited channels: Digital PAM Transmission through Band limited Channels,
Signal design for Band limited Channels: Design of band limited signals for zero ISI–
The Nyquist Criterion (statement only), Design of band limited signals with controlled
ISI-Partial Response signals, Probability of error for detection of Digital PAM:
Probability of error for detection of Digital PAM with Zero ISI, Symbol–by–Symbol
detection of data with controlled ISI (Text 2: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3.1, 9.3.2).

Channel Equalization: Linear Equalizers (ZFE, MMSE), Adaptive Equalizers

(Text 2: 9.4.2). L1, L2, L3
Module-5
Principles of Spread Spectrum: Spread Spectrum Communication Systems: Model
of a Spread Spectrum Digital Communication System, Direct Sequence Spread
Spectrum Systems, Effect of De-spreading on a narrowband Interference, Probability
of error (statement only), Some applications of DS Spread Spectrum Signals,
Generation of PN Sequences, Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum, CDMA based on
IS-95 (Text 2: 11.3.1, 11.3.2, 11.3.3, 11.3.4, 11.3.5, 11.4.2). L1, L2, L3
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the students will be able to:
Associate and apply the concepts of Bandpass sampling to well specified signals
and channels.
Analyze and compute performance parameters and transfer rates for low pas
and bandpass symbol under ideal and corrupted non band limited channels.
Test and validate symbol processing and performance parameters at the receiver
under ideal and corrupted bandlimited channels.
Demonstrate by simulation and emulation that bandpass signals subjected to
corrupted and distorted symbols in a bandlimited channel, can be demodulated
and estimated at receiver to meet specified performance criteria.
Text Books:
1. Simon Haykin, ―Digital Communication Systems‖, John Wiley & sons, First
Edition, 2014, ISBN 978-0-471-64735-5.
2. John G Proakis and Masoud Salehi, ―Fundamentals of Communication
Systems‖, 2014 Edition, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-8-131-70573-5.

Reference Books:
1. B.P.Lathi and Zhi Ding, ―Modern Digital and Analog communication Systems‖,
Oxford University Press, 4th Edition, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-198-07380-2.
2. Ian A Glover and Peter M Grant, ―Digital Communications‖, Pearson Education,
Third Edition, 2010, ISBN 978-0-273-71830-7.
3. John G Proakis and Masoud Salehi, ―Communication Systems Engineering‖, 2nd
Edition, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-93-325-5513-6.

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 EMBEDDED CONTROLLER LAB
B.E., VI Semester, Electronics & Communication Engineering/
Telecommunication Engineering
[As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) Scheme]
Course Code 17ECL67 CIE Marks 40
Number of Lecture 01Hr Tutorial (Instructions) SEE Marks 60
Hours/Week + 02 Hours Laboratory = 03

RBT Levels L1, L2, L3 Exam Hours 03

CREDITS – 02
Course objectives: This course will enable students to:
Understand the instruction set of ARM Cortex M3, a 32 bit microcontroller and the
software tool required for programming in Assembly and C language.
Program ARM Cortex M3 using the various instructions in assembly level language
for different applications.
Interface external devices and I/O with ARM Cortex M3.
Develop C language programs and library functions for embedded system
applications.

Laboratory Experiments

PART-A: Conduct the following Study experiments to learn ALP using ARM
Cortex M3 Registers using an Evaluation board and the required software tool.

1. ALP to multiply two 16 bit binary numbers.

2. ALP to find the sum of first 10 integer numbers.

PART-B: Conduct the following experiments on an ARM CORTEX M3

evaluation board using evaluation version of Embedded 'C' & Keil uVision-4
tool/compiler.

1. Display ―Hello World‖ message using Internal UART.

2. Interface and Control a DC Motor.
3. Interface a Stepper motor and rotate it in clockwise and anti-clockwise
direction.

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 4. Interface a DAC and generate Triangular and Square waveforms.
5. Interface a 4x4 keyboard and display the key code on an LCD.
6. Using the Internal PWM module of ARM controller generate PWM and vary its
duty cycle.
7. Demonstrate the use of an external interrupt to toggle an LED On/Off.
8. Display the Hex digits 0 to F on a 7-segment LED interface, with an
appropriate delay in between.
9. Interface a simple Switch and display its status through Relay, Buzzer and
LED.
10. Measure Ambient temperature using a sensor and SPI ADC IC.

Course outcomes: After studying this course, students will be able to:
Understand the instruction set of 32 bit microcontroller ARM Cortex M3, and the
software tool required for programming in Assembly and C language.
Develop assembly language programs using ARM Cortex M3 for different
applications.
Interface external devices and I/O with ARM Cortex M3.
Develop C language programs and library functions for embedded system
applications.
Conduction of Practical Examination:

1. PART-B experiments using Embedded-C are only to be considered for the practical
examination. PART-A ALP programs are for study purpose and can be considered
for Internal Marks evaluation.

2. Strictly follow the instructions as printed on the cover page of answer script for
breakup of marks.

3. Change of experiment is allowed only once and Marks allotted to the procedure
part to be made zero.

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