Understanding Entrepreneurship: Concept of Entrepreneurship, Motivation for Economic Development and Entrepreneurial Achievement, Enterprise and Society Why and how to start Business - Entrepreneurial traits and skills, Mind Vrs Money in Commencing New Ventures, Entrepreneurial success and failures, Environmental dynamics and change.
Entrepreneurial Process: Step by step approach to entrepreneurial start up Decision for Entrepreneurial start up.
Setting up of a small Business Enterprise: Identifying the Business opportunity - Business opportunities in various sectors, formalities for setting up small enterprises in manufacturing and services, Environmental pollution and allied regulatory and non-regulatory clearances for new venture promotion in SME sector. Writing a Business plan, components of a B-Plan, determining Bankability of the project.
Module - IIIInstitutional Support for SME: Central / State level Institution promoting SME. Financial Management in small business. Marketing Management, problems & strategies. Problems of HRM - Relevant Labour - laws. Sickness in Small Enterprises: Causes and symptoms of sickness - cures of sickness. Govt. policies on revival of sickness and remedial measures.
Reference Books: Introduction: Historical Perspective, VLSI Design Methodologies, VLSI Design Flow, Design Hierarchy, Concept of Regularity, Modularity and Locality, VLSI Design Styles, Computer-Aided Design Technology.
Fabrication of MOSFETs: Introduction, Fabrication Processes Flow - Basic Concepts, The CMOS n-Well Process, Layout Design Rules, Stick Diagrams, Full-Customs Mask Layout Design.
MOS Transistor: The Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Structure, The MOS System under External Bias, Structure and Operation of MOS Transistor (MOSFET), MOSFET Current-Voltage Characteristics, MOSFET Scaling and Small-Geometry Effects, MOSFET Capacitance.
(Chapter 1 to 3 of Text Book 1 and for Stick Diagram Text Book 2)
MOS Inverters - Static Characteristics: Introduction, Resistive-Load Inverters, Inverters with n-Type MOSFET Load, CMOS Inverter.
MOS Inverters - Switching Characteristics and Interconnect Effects: Introduction, Delay-Time Definitions, Calculation of Delay-Times, Inverter Design with Delay Constraints, Estimation of Interconnect Parasitics, Calculation of Interconnect Delay, Switching Power Dissipation of CMOS Inverters.
Combinational MOS Logic Circuits: Introduction, MOS Logic Circuits with Depletion nMOS Loads, CMOS Logic Circuits, Complex Logic Circuits, CMOS Transmission Gates (Pass Gates).
(Chapter 5 to 7 of Text Book 1)
Sequential MOS Logic Circuits: Introduction, Behaviour of Bistable Elements, SR Latch Circuits, Clocked Latch and Flip-Flop Circuits, CMOS D-Latch and Edge-Triggered Flip-Flop.
Dynamic Logic Circuits: Introduction, Basic Principles of Pass Transistor Circuits, Voltage Bootstrapping, Synchronous Dynamic Circuit Techniques, Dynamic CMOS Circuit Techniques, High Performance Dynamic CMOS Circuits.
Semiconductor Memories: Introduction, Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Non-volatile Memory, Flash Memory.
Design for Testability: Introduction, Fault Types and Models, Ad Hoc Testable Design Techniques, Scan-Based Techniques, Built-In Self-Test (BIST) Techniques, Current Monitoring IDDQ Test.
Fundamentals of Biomedical Instrumentation: Sources of Biomedical Signals, Basic Medical Instrumentation System, Intelligent Medical Instrumentation Systems, PC Based Medical Instrumentation Systems, General Constraints & Regulations of Medical Devices Biomedical Signals & Electrodes: Origin of Bioelectric Signals-Repolarization, Depolarization, Resting Potential Recording Electrodes - Ag-AgCl Electrodes, Electrodes for ECG, EEG, EMG, Microelectrodes, Skin Contact Impedance, Motion Artifacts.
Module - IIPhysiological Transducers: Introduction to Physiological Transducers, Classification of Transducers, Pressure Transducers, Transducers for Body Temperature Measurement, Biosensors, Smart Sensors Biomedical Recording Systems: Basic Recording Systems, General Considerations for Signal Conditioners, Biomedical Signal Analysis Techniques, Signal Processing Techniques, Writing Systems: Direct Writing Recorders, Inkjet Recorder, Potentiometric Recorders, Digital Recorders Biomedical Recorders: Electrocardiograph (ECG), Phonocardiograph, Electroencephalograph (EEG), Electromayograph (EMG)
Module - IIIPatient Monitoring Systems: System Concepts, Measurement of Heart Rate, Blood Pressure Measurement, Measurement of Respiration Rate Blood Flow meters: Electromagnetic Blood Flow meter, Ultrasonic Blood Flow meter, NMR Blood Flow meter, Laser-Doppler Blood Flow meter Patient Safety: Electric Shock Hazards, Leakage Currents, Safety Codes for Biomedical Equipment.
Text Books: Introduction: Fundamentals of switching system, telecommunication networks.
Electronic space division switching: Stored program control, centralized and distributed SPC, application software architecture, enhanced services, two and three stage & n stage networks.
Time Division Switching: Basic time division space switching, time division time switching, time multiplexed space and time switching, combination switching, three-stage & n stge combination switching. (Chapter 1, 4 and 6)
Traffic Engineering: Network traffic load and parameters, Grade of services & blocking probability, modeling of switching systems, incoming traffic & service time characterization, blocking models and loss estimates, Delay systems (Chapter 8)
Telephone Networks: Subscriber loop systems, switching hierarchy and routing, transmission plan, transmission systems, Signaling techniques : in channel & common channel signaling (Chapter 9)
Data Networks: Data transmission in PSTN, switching techniques, Data communication architecture, link-to-link layers, end-to-end layers, satellite based data networks, an overview of data network standards. (Chapter 10)
Integrated Service Digital Network: Motivation, new services, transmission channels, signalling, service characterization, ISDN standards, broad band ISDN, voice data integration (Chapter 11)
Discrete - Time Control Systems:
Introduction: Discrete Time Control Systems and Continuous Time Control Systems, Sampling Process.
Digital Control Systems: Sample and Hold, Analog to digital conversion, Digital to analog conversion.
The Z-transform: Discrete-Time Signals, The Z-transform, Z-transform of Elementary functions, Important properties and Theorms of the Z-transform. The inverse Z-transform, Z-Transform method for solving Difference Equations.
Z-Plane Analysis of Discrete Time Control Systems: Impulse sampling & Data Hold
Reconstruction of Original signals from sampled signals: Sampling theorm, folding, aliasing.
Pulse Transfer function: Starred Laplace Transform of the signal involving Both ordinary and starred Laplace Transforms; General procedures for obtaining pulse Transfer functions, Pulse Transfer function of open loop and closed loop systems.
Mapping between the s-plane and the z-plane, Stability analysis of closed loop systems in the z-plane: Stability analysis by use of the Bilinear Transformation and Routh stability critgion, Jury stability Test.
Book No. 1: 1.1; 1.2; 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4; 2.5; 2.6; 3.2; 3.4; 3.5; 4.2; 4.3.
State Variable Analysis & Design:
Introduction: Concepts of State, State Variables and State Model (of continuous time systems): State Model of Linear Systems, State Model for Single-Input-Single-Output Linear Systems, Linearization of the State Equation.
State Models for Linear Continuous - Time Systems: State-Space Representation Using Physical Variables, State - space Representation Using Phase Variables, Phase variable formulations for transfer function with poles and zeros, State - space Representation using Canonical Variables, Derivation of Transfer Function for State Model.
Diagonalization: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Generalized Eigenvectors.
Solution of State Equations: Properties of the State Transition Matrix, Computation of State Transition Matrix, Computation by Techniques Based on the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, Sylvester's Expansion theorm.
Concepts of Controllability and Observability: Controllability, Observability, Effect of Pole-zero Cancellation in Transfer Function.
Pole Placement by State Feedback, Observer Systems. State Variables and Linear Discrete - Time Systems: State Models from Linear Difference Equations/z-transfer Functions, Solution of State Equations (Discrete Case), An Efficient Method of Discretization and Solution, Linear Transformation of State Vector (Discrete-Time Case), Derivation of z-Transfer Function from Discrete-Time State Model.
Book No. 2: 12.1 to 12.9.
Nonlinear Systems:
Introduction: Behaviour of Non linear Systems, Investigation of nonlinear systems.
Common Physical Non Linearities: Saturation, Friction, Backlash, Relay, Multivariable Nonlinearity.
The Phase Plane Method: Basic Concepts
Singular Points: Nodal Point, Saddle Point, Focus Point, Centre or Vortex Point,
Stability of Non Linear Systems: Limit Cycles,
Construction of Phase Trajectories: Construction by Analytical Method, Construction by Graphical Methods.
The Describing Function Method: Basic Concepts: Derivation of Describing Functions: Dead-zone and Saturation, Relay with Dead-zone and Hysteresis, Backlash.
Stability Analysis by Describing Function Method: Relay with Dead Zone, Relay with Hysteresis, Stability Analysis by Gain-phase Plots.
Jump Resonance. Liapunov's Stability Analysis: Introduction, Liapunov's Stability Critrion: Basic Stability Theores, Liapunov Functions, Instability.
Direct Method of Liapunov & the Linear System: Methods of constructing Liapunov functions for Non linear Systems.
Book No. 2: 13.1 to 13.4; 15.1 to 15.10.
Introduction: Adaptive Systems - Definition and characteristics, General properties, Open and Closed Loop Adaptations, Applications.
The Adaptive Linear Combiner: Performance function, Gradient and Mean Square Error, Examples.
Theory of Adaptation with Stationary Signals: Properties of the Quadratic Performance Surface, Significance of eigen values, eigen vectors, coorelation matrix.
Searching the Proformance Surface: A simple gradient search algorithm, Stability and Rate of convergence, the learning curve.
Gradient Estimation and its effects on Adoption: The performance penalty, Variance of the gradient estimate, Misadjustment.
Adaptive Algorithms and Structures: The LMS Algorithm, Convergence, learning Curve, Performanece analysis, Filtered X LMS algorithm,
Applications: Adaptive Modeling and System Identification using adaptive filter, Inverse Adaptive Modeling, Deconvolution, and equalization using adaptive filter, Adaptive Control Systems using Filtered X LMS Algorithm, Adaptive Noise Cancellation using Adaptive filter.
Basic Structures of Computers: Functional units, operational concepts, Bus structures, Software, Performance, Computer Architecture vs Computer Organization.
Machine Instruction and Programs: Memory location and addresses, Big-endian and Little-endian representation. Memory Operations, Instructions and instruction Sequencing, Addressing modes, Assembly Language, Basic Input/output operations, subroutine, additional Instructions.
Module - II
Arithmetic: Addition and subtraction of signed Numbers, Design of Fast Adders, Multiplication of positive Numbers, Signed-operand multiplication, Fast multiplication, Integer Division, Floating- point Numbers, (IEEE754 s..) and operations.
Module - III Basic Processing units: Fundamental concepts, execution of complete Instructions, Multi bus organization, Hardwired control, Micro programmed control, RISC vs CISC architecture.
Memory System: Basic Concepts, cache Memory, Cache memory mapping policies, Cache updating schemes, performance consideration, Virtual memories, Paging and Page replacement policies, Memory Management requirement, secondary storage.
Text Books:
Introduction: What is real time, Applications of Real-Time systems, A basic model of Real-time system, Characteistics of Real-time system, Safety and Reliability, Types of Real-time tasks, timing constraints, Modelling timing constraints
Real-Time Task Scheduling: Some important concepts, Types of Real-time tasks and their characteristics, Task scheduling, Clock-Driven scheduling, Hybrid schedulers, Event-Driven scheduling, Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling, Rate monotonic algorithm (RMA). Some issues Associated with RMA. Issues in using RMA practical situations.
Handling Resource Sharing and dependencies among Real-time Tasks: Resource sharing among real-time tasks. Priority inversion. Priority Inheritance Protocol (PIP), Highest Locker Protocol (HLP). Priority Ceiling Protocol (PCP). Different types of priority inversions under PCP.Important features of PCP. Some issues in using a resource sharing protocol. Handling task dependencies.
Scheduling Real-time tasks in multiprocessor and distributed systems: Multiprocessor task allocation, Dynamic allocation of tasks. Fault tolerant scheduling of tasks. Clock in distributed Real-time systems, Centralized clock synchronization.
Commercial Real-time operating systems: Time services, Features of a Real-time operating system, Unix as a Real-time operating system, Unix-based Real-time operating systems, Windows as a Real-time operating system,POSIX-RT, A survey of contemporary Real-time operating systems. Benchmarking real-time systems.
Real-time Databases: Example applications of Real-time databases. Review of basic database concepts, Real-time databases, Characteristics of temporal data. Concurrency control in real-time databases. Commercial real-time databases. Real-time Communication: Basic concepts, Examples of applications, Real-time communication in a LAN and Real-time communication over packet switched networks.
Overview of Graphics System: Video Display Units, Raster-Scan and Random Scan Systems, Graphics Input and Output Devices. Output Primitives: Line drawing Algorithms: DDA and Bresenham's Line Algorithm, Circle drawing Algorithms: Midpoint Circle Algorithm and Bresenham's Circle drawing Algorithm. Two Dimensional Geometric Transformation: Basic Transformation (Translation, rotation, Scaling) Matrix Representation, Composite Transformations, Reflection, Shear, Transformation between coordinate systems. Two Dimensional Viewing: Window-to- View port Coordinate Transformation.
Module - IILine Clipping (Cohen-Sutherland Algorithm) and Polygon Clipping (Sutherland-Hodgeman Algorithm). Aliasing and Antialiasing, Half toning, Thresholding and Dithering, Scan conversion of Character. Polygon Filling: Seed Fill Algorithm, Scan line Algorithm. Two Dimensional Object Representation: Spline Representation, Bezier Curves and B-Spline Curves. Fractal Geometry: Fractal Classification and Fractal Dimension. Three Dimensional Geometric and Modeling Transformations: Translation Rotation, Scaling, Reflections, shear, Composite Transformation. Projections: Parallel Projection and Perspective Projection.
Module - IIIVisible Surface Detection Methods: Back-face Detection, Depth Buffer, A- Buffer, Scan- line Algorithm and Painters Algorithm. Illumination Models: Basic Models, Displaying Light Intensities. Surface Rendering Methods: Polygon Rendering Methods: Gouraud Shading and Phong Shading. Computer Animation: Types of Animation, Key frame Vs. Procedural Animation, methods of controlling Animation, Morphing. Virtual Reality: Types of Virtual reality systems, Input and Output Virtual Reality devices.
Textbook: Introduction to Personal Communications Services (PCS): PCS Architecture, mobility management, Networks signaling, Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) System overview : GSM Architecture, Mobility management, Network signaling.
General Packet Radio Services (GPRS): GPRS Architecture, GPRS Network Nodes, Mobile Data Communication; WLANs (Wireless LANs) IEEE 802.II standard, Mobile IP.
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): The Mobile Internet standard, WAP Gateway and Protocols, wireless mark up Languages (WML), Wireless Local Loop (WLL) : Introduction to WLL Architecture, wireless Local Loop Technologies.
Third Generation (3G) Mobile Services: Introduction to International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT 2000) Vision, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), and CDMA 2000.
Global Mobile Satellite Systems ; case studies of the IRIDIUM, ICO and GLOBALSTAR systems. Wireless Enterprise Networks : Introduction to Virtual Networks, Blue tooth technology, Blue tooth Protocols.
Server-side programming in Java, Pervasive web application architecture, Device independent example application.
Process Control: Introduction: Process Definition, Feedback Control, PID Control, Multivariable Control. (Chapter 1 of Text Book 1).
PID Controller Tuning: Introduction, Zeigler-Nichols Tuning Method (Based on Ultimate Gain and Period, and Process Reaction Curve), Digital PID Controllers. (Chapter 13 of Text Book 2).
Special Control Structures: Cascade Control, Feedfroward Control, Feedfroward-Feedback Control Configuration, Ratio Control, Selective Control, Adaptive Control, Adaptive Control Configuration. (Chapter 10 and 11 of Text book 3)
Actuators: Introduction, Pneumatic Actuation, Hydraulic Actuation, Electric Actuation, Motor Actuators and Control Valves. (Chapter 8 of Text Book 1)
Industrial Automation: Programmable Logic Controllers: Introduction, Principles of operation, Architecture, Programming (Programming Languages, Ladder Diagram, Boolean Mnemonics) (Chapter 5 of Text Book 1)
Distributed Control: Distributed vs. Centralized, Advantages, Functional Requirements, System Architecture, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Communication options in DCS. (Chapter 6 of Text Book 1)
Real-time Programming: Multi-tasking, Task Management, Inter-task Communication, Real-time Operating System. (Chapter 9 of Text Book 1)
Introduction and Foundations: Mathematical Models, Models for Linear Systems and Signals, Adaptive Filtering, Gaussian Random Variables and Random Processes, Markov and Hidden Markov Models [Moon: 1.3 to 1.7]
Vector Spaces and Linear Algebra: Metric Spaces, Vector Spaces, Norms and Normed Vector Spaces, Inner Products and Inner Product Spaces, Induced Norms, The Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality, Orthogonal Subspaces, Projections and Orthogonal Projections, Projection Theorem Orthogonalization of Vectors. [Moon: 2.1 to 2.6, 2.10, 2.13, 2.14, and 2.15]
Representation and Approximation in Vector Spaces: The Approximation Problem in Hilbert Space, The Orthogonality Principle, Matrix Representation of Least-Squares Problems, Linear Regression, Least-Squares Filtering, Minimum Mean-Square Estimation, Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MMSE) Filtering, Comparison of Least Squares and Minimum Mean Squares. [Moon: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.8 to 3.12]
Some Important Matrix Factorization: The LU Factorization, The Cholesky Factorization, Unitary Matrices and the QR Factorization. [Moon: 5.1 to 5.3]
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors: Eigen Values and Linear Systems, Linear Dependence of Eigenvectors, Diagonalization of a Matrix. [Moon: 6.1 to 6.3]
The Singular Value Decomposition: Theory of the SVD, Matrix Structure from the SVD, Pseudo-inverses and the SVD, Rank-Reducing Approximations: Effective Rank, System Identification Using the SVD. [Moon: 7.1 to 7.3 and 7.5]
Introduction to Detection and Estimation, and Mathematical Notation: Detection and Estimation Theory, Some Notational Conventions, Conditional Expectation, Sufficient Statistics, Exponential Families. [Moon: 10.1 to 10.3, 10.5, and 10.6]
Detection Theory: Introduction to Hypothesis Testing, Neyman-Pearson Theory, Neyman Pearson testing with Composite Binary Hypotheses, Bayes Decession Theory, Some M-ary Problems, Maximum-Likelihood Detection. [Moon: 11.1 to 11.6]
Estimation Theory: The Maximum-Likelihood Principle, ML Esimates and Sufficiency, Applications of ML Estimation, Bayes Estimation Theory, Bayes risk [Moon: 12.1 to 12.6]
What is Artificial Intelligence? AI Technique, Level of the Model,Problem Spaces and Search: Defining the Problem as a State Space Search, Production Systems, Problem Characteristics, Production System Characteristics, Issues in the Design of Search Programs.
Heuristic Search Techniques: Generate-and-Test, Hill Climbing, Best-first Search, Problem Reduction, Constraint Satisfaction, Means-ends Analysis,
Knowledge Representation: Representations and Mappings,Approaches to Knowledge Representation
Using Predicate Logic: Representing Simple Facts in Logic,Representing Instance and ISA Relationships, Computable Functions and Predicates, Resolution
Natural Deduction Using Rules: Procedural Versus Declarative Knowledge, Logic Programming,Forward Versus Backward Reasoning, Matching, Control Knowledge.
Symbolic Reasoning Under Uncertainty: Introduction to Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Logics for Nonmonotonic Reasoning,Implementation Issues, Augmenting a Problem-solver, Depth-first Search,Breadth-first Search.
Weak and Strong Slot-and-Filler Structures: Semantic Nets, Frames, Conceptual DependencyScripts, CYC.
Game Playing: The Minimax Search Procedure, Adding Alpha-beta Cutoffs
Iterative Deepening Planning: The Blocks World, Components of a Planning System, Goal Stack Planning, Nonlinear Planning Using Constraint Posting, Hierarchical PlanningOther Planning Techniques.
Understanding: What is Understanding, What Makes Understanding Hard?, Understanding as Constraint Satisfaction.
Natural Language Processing: Introduction, Syntactic Processing, Semantic Analysis, Discourse and Pragmatic Processing, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Spell Checking.
Learning: Rote Learning, Learning by Taking Advice, Learning in Problem-solving,
Learning from Examples: Induction, Explanation-based Learning, Discovery, Analogy, Formal Learning Theory, Neural Net Learning and Genetic Learning.
Expert Systems: Representing and Using Domain Knowledge, Expert System Shells, Explanation, Knowledge Acquisition.