Semester 1

1. Professional Communications Skills (Pcs)

UNIT 1-The Seven Cs of Effective Communication

Completeness, Conciseness, Consideration, Concreteness, Clarity,Courtesy, Correctness.

UNIT 2-Communication: Its interpretation

Basics, Nonverbal Communication, Barriers to Communication

UNIT 3-Business Communication at Work Place

Letter Components and Layout, Planning a letter, Process of Letter writing, E-mail Communication, Memo and Memo reports,Employment Communication, Notice agenda and Minutes of meeting,Brochures.

UNIT 4-Report Writing

Effective Writing, Types of Business Reports, Structure of Reports,Gathering Information,Organization of the Material, Writing Abstracts and Summaries, Writing Definitions, Visual Aids, User Instruction Manual.

UNIT 5-Required Skills

Reading skills, listening skills, note-making, précis writing,audiovisual aids, oral communication.

UNIT 6-Mechanics of Writing

Transitions, Spelling rules, hyphenation, transcribing numbers,Abbreviating technical and non-technical terms, Proof reading.

2.Applied Mathematics 1

UNIT 1-Matrices:

Minors and Cofactors, Adjoint of a square matrix, Inverse of a matrix.Rank of a matrix, Solution of Homogeneous and non homogeneous linear Equations using Matrix method.

UNIT 2-Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors

Vectors, linear combination of vectors, Inner Product of two vectors,characteristic equation, Eigen Vector,Cayley- Hamilton Theorem,Similarity of Matrices, Derogatory and Non-derogatory matrices,Complex Matrices: Hermitian, skew-Hermitian and Unitary matrices and their properties.

UNIT 3-Vector Calculus

Vector Differentiation: Vector Operator Del, Gradient, and Geometrical Meaning of gradient, Divergence and Curl.

UNIT 4- Differential Equations

Differential Equations of 1st order and 1st degree and applications.

UNIT 5-Linear Differential Equations

Linear Differential equations with constant coefficient, Differential equations of higher order and applications.

UNIT 6-Differentiation And Applications

Successive differentiation, Mean Value theorems, Partial differentiation, Euler’s Theorem, Approximation and errors, Maxima and Minima.

3.Fundamentals Of Digital Computing(FDC)

UNIT 1-Data and Information

Features of Digital Systems, Number Systems-Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal & their inter conversions,Representation of Data-Signed Magnitude,one’s complement & two’s

complement,Binary Arithmetic,Fixed point representation and Floating point representation of numbers.Codes-BCD, XS-3, Gray code,Alphanumeric Codes (ASCII, EBCDIC, UNICODE), Error detecting and error correcting codes.

UNIT 2-Boolean Algebra

Basic gates(AND, OR, NOT gates),Universal gates(NAND and NOR gates), Other gates (XOR, XNOR gates).Boolean identities,De Morgan Laws,Karnaugh maps(K-Maps):-SOP and POS forms, Quine McClusky method.

UNIT 3-Combinational Circuits

Half adder, Full Adder, Code Converters, Combinational Circuit design,Multiplexers and Demultiplexers, Encoders, Decoders, Combinational Design using MuX and DemuX.

UNIT 4-Sequential Circuit Design

Flip flops (RS, Clocked RS, D, JK, JK Master Slave, T, Counters, Shift registers and their types, Counters:Synchronous and Asynchronous Counters.

UNIT 5-Computers: Basic Organization,Memory

ROM, RAM, PROM, EPROM,EEPROM,Secondary Memory: Hard Disk & optical Disk, Cache Memory,I/O devices.

UNIT 6-Operating Systems

Types (real Time, Single User / Single Tasking, Single user / Multitasking, Multi user / Multi tasking, GUI based OS. Overview of desktop operating systems-Windows and LINUX.

4.Electronics And Communication Tecnology (ECT) 

UNIT 1-Concept of Conductor, Semiconductor, Insulator. Semiconductor Diode, Forward bias, Reverse Bias, Application of Diode as Rectifier,Zener diode and its applications, Introduction to Transistor (BJT,

FET), PNP, NPN Transistors their Characteristic. Application of Transistor as amplifier and as a Switch.

UNIT 2-Concept of amplification, amplifier notations, Av, Ai, Ap Zi, Zo), Application of BJT as single stage Amplifier, Frequency response of single stage Amplifier. Multistage Amplifiers:(Basics concepts) RC

coupled, cascade, Darlington pair, DC amplifiers.

UNIT 3-Concept of Feedback:- Negative Feedback and its advantage in Amplification, Positive Feedback:-Oscillators, RC Phase Shift Oscillator, LC Oscillator. Switching Circuits, Multivibrators: Monostable using IC 555 and Astable using IC 555 (including problems).

UNIT 4-Introduction:Need for modulation system, Concept of Modulation. AM:Definition of AM, Modulation index, Power relation in AM,Generation and Demodulation of AM. SSB:Power requirement in

comparison with AM, Advantages of SSB over AM, Concept of Balanced Modulator, Generation of SSB, Pilot Carrier System,Independent Side System, Vestigial Sideband Transmission.

UNIT 5-FM:Definition of FM, Bandwidth, Noise triangle, Per-emphasis and De- emphasis. PM: -Definition of PM. Difference between AM and FM. Radio receivers. Pulse Modulation:- Sampling Theorem, PAM,PTM, PWM, PPM, pulse code modulation, Quantization noise,companding, PCM system, differential PCM, Delta modulation.Multiplexing: FDM/TDM. Television:Scanning, Composite Video signal, Television Transmitter, television receiver.

UNIT 6-Introduction to Digital Communication: PSK, ASK, FSK. Introduction to fibre optics system:Propagation of light in optical fibre; ray model . Types of fibre :Single mode, steps index. Graded index. Signal distortion: attenuation, dispersion. Optical sources:LED, LASERS. Optical Detectors and optics links,Link Budget.

5.Introduction To C++ Programming

UNIT 1-Programming Logic and techniques

Algorithms, Flow-charts, Program Design, Introduction to C++: Origin of C++, A Sample C++ program, pitfall and programming tips. Testing and Debugging.

UNIT 2-C++ concepts 

Variables and Assignments: variables, identifiers, variable declarations, Assignment Statements, reference variable, symbolic constant,Input and Output: cin, cout, escape sequences, include directives and Namespaces, Indenting and Comments, Operator precedence, Data types and expressions, Arithmetic operators, Type compatibilities.

UNIT 3-Flow of Control

Compound statements, Loops: while, for, do while, nested loops, Decision making: if – else, nested if else, switch , break and continue, Manipulators: endl , setw,sizeof, Increment and decrement operators, Type Cast Operators, Scope resolution operators.

UNIT 4-Functions

Function Prototypes, built in functions and user defined functions, Function overloading, Call by reference, Call by value, const member functions.Inline Functions and recursive functions, Math Library Functions.

UNIT 5-Derived Data types ( Arrays , pointers , functions)

Introduction to arrays,arrays in functions, 2-D arrays , Multidimensional arrays, Introduction to pointers, void pointers, pointers in function, pointer to constant and constant pointer, generic pointer,void pointer.

UNIT 6-Strings, Vectors and Structures

String functions: strcmp, strcat, strlen,strcpy .Vector Basics.Introduction to Structures.