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Drdo Syllabus Instrumentation

This document outlines the syllabus for an Instrumentation Engineering paper at DRDO. It covers 7 topics: 1) transducers and industrial instrumentation, 2) analog electronics, 3) digital electronics, 4) signals, systems and communications, 5) electrical and electronic measurements, 6) control systems and process control, and 7) analytical, optical and biomedical instrumentation. The syllabus aims to teach students about circuit analysis, measurement systems, transducers, analog and digital electronics, signals and systems, communication techniques, control systems, and various applications of instrumentation in analytical, optical and biomedical domains.

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Drdo Syllabus Instrumentation

This document outlines the syllabus for an Instrumentation Engineering paper at DRDO. It covers 7 topics: 1) transducers and industrial instrumentation, 2) analog electronics, 3) digital electronics, 4) signals, systems and communications, 5) electrical and electronic measurements, 6) control systems and process control, and 7) analytical, optical and biomedical instrumentation. The syllabus aims to teach students about circuit analysis, measurement systems, transducers, analog and digital electronics, signals and systems, communication techniques, control systems, and various applications of instrumentation in analytical, optical and biomedical domains.

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Syllabus for Instrumentation Engineering paper DRDO

Basics of Circuits and Measurement Systems: Kirchoff’s laws, mesh and nodal Analysis.
Circuit theorems. One-port and two-port Network Functions. Static and dynamic characteristics
of Measurement Systems. Error and uncertainty analysis. Statistical analysis of data and curve
fitting. 

1. Transducers, Mechanical Measurement and Industrial Instrumentation: Resistive,


Capacitive, Inductive and piezoelectric transducers and their signal conditioning.
Measurement of displacement, velocity and acceleration (translational and rotational),
force, torque, vibration and shock. Measurement of pressure, flow, temperature and
liquid level. Measurement of pH, conductivity, viscosity and humidity. 

2. Analog Electronics :Characteristics of diode, BJT, JFET and MOSFET. Diode circuits.
Transistors at low and high frequencies, Amplifiers, single and multi-stage. Feedback
amplifiers. Operational amplifiers, characteristics and circuit configurations.
Instrumentation amplifier. Precision rectifier. V-to-I and I-to-V converter. Op-Amp based
active filters. Oscillators and signal generators. 

3. Digital Electronics: Combinational logic circuits, minimization of Boolean functions. IC


families, TTL, MOS and CMOS. Arithmetic circuits. Comparators, Schmitt trigger, timers
and mono-stable multi-vibrator. Sequential circuits, flip-flops, counters, shift registers.
Multiplexer, S/H circuit. Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog converters. Basics of
number system. Microprocessor applications, memory and input-output interfacing.
Microcontrollers. 

4. Signals, Systems and Communications: Periodic and aperiodic signals. Impulse


response, transfer function and frequency response of first- and second order systems.
Convolution, correlation and characteristics of linear time invariant systems. Discrete
time system, impulse and frequency response. Pulse transfer function. IIR and FIR
filters. Amplitude and frequency modulation and demodulation. Sampling theorem, pulse
code modulation. Frequency and time division multiplexing. Amplitude shift keying,
frequency shift keying and pulse shift keying for digital modulation. 

5. Electrical and Electronic Measurements: Bridges and potentiometers, measurement


of R,L and C. Measurements of voltage, current, power, power factor and energy. A.C &
D.C current probes. Extension of instrument ranges. Q-meter and waveform analyzer.
Digital voltmeter and multi-meter. Time, phase and frequency measurements. Cathode
ray oscilloscope. Serial and parallel communication. Shielding and grounding. 

6. Control Systems and Process Control: Feedback principles. Signal flow graphs.


Transient Response, steady-state-errors. Routh and Nyquist criteria. Bode plot, root loci.
Time delay systems. Phase and gain margin. State space representation of systems.
Mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic system components. Synchro pair, servo and step
motors. On-off, cascade, P, P-I, P-I-D, feed forward and derivative controller, Fuzzy
controllers. 
7. Analytical, Optical and Biomedical Instrumentation: Mass spectrometry. UV, visible
and IR spectrometry. X-ray and nuclear radiation measurements. Optical sources and
detectors, LED, laser, Photo-diode, photo-resistor and their characteristics.
Interferometers, applications in metrology. Basics of fiber optics. Biomedical instruments,
EEG, ECG and EMG. Clinical measurements. Ultrasonic transducers and
Ultrasonography. Principles of Computer Assisted Tomography. 

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