RGPV Syllabus BASIC ELECTRONICS

 RAJIV GANDHI PROUDYOGIKI VISWAVIDYALAYA, 

BHOPAL 

DIPLOMA IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

SEMESTER: THIRD

NAME OF COURSE: BASIC ELECTRONICS

MahendraEEE

CONTENTS.                     Marks 

1. Semiconductor Devices – 

(a) Concept of electronic emission – Different methods of electronic 

emission and their applications. 

(b) Diodes - Formation of PN junction, forward biasing and revere 

biasing of PN junction, construction, characteristics and 

application of different types of diodes, Zener diode . 

 (c) Transistor - PNP/ NPN Junction Transistors, different 

configurations: CB, CE, CC. Transistors Characteristics, and 

applications. 

(d) Special Semiconductor devices – Construction, symbol and 

application of 

 Tunnel diode, photo diode, varactor, FET, MOSFET, UJT. 

12 

2. Rectifiers – 

Single phase, half wave, full wave and bridge types of rectifiers. 

calculation of output voltage, average and RMS values, ripple factor 

and rectification efficiency. Filter, and types of filters. 

10 

3. Regulated Power Supply - Difference between linear and switch 

mode power supply, regulated power supply and its limitations, series 

and shunt power supply using transistors, SMPS ( Block diagram 

only ), IC regulated power supply (78XX and 79XX series). 

8 

4. Amplifiers - Principal of amplification, types of transistor 

amplifiers, biasing techniques, RC coupled, transformer coupled, and 

direct coupled amplifiers, push pull Amplifier, advantages and 

disadvantages, detailed study of circuit diagram, working principal 

and applications of above amplifiers, use of operational amplifier as 

comparator, multiplier, summer, integrator and differentiator. 

12 

5. Oscillators – Principal of oscillation, Types of oscillators such as Hartley, Colpitts, tuned oscillator, Weign bridge oscillator: circuit 

diagram, principal, working & applications. 

10 

6. Non-sinusoidal Generator - Astable, monostable and bitable multivariate circuits, principal of working and output waveforms. 

4

7. Modulation and Demodulation – Amplitude, phase and frequency 

modulation, principle, methods and applications of above 

modulations, A.M. and F.M. detection 

5 

8. Integrated circuits - Concepts of IC’s classification, types and their 

advantages, applications of common IC’s such as 741, 555, 810 and 

digital IC’s. 6 

9. Digital Techniques - Number system, binary, decimal number system. 

Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division of binary numbers. 

Logic gates- their symbols, truth table and applications. 

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