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VIVA QUESTIONS FOR ECE

DIODE CIRCUITS

1. What is a semiconductor diode?

2. What are Intrinsic and Extrinsic semiconductors?

3. What are minority and majority carriers?

4. What is diffusion?

5. Write down the diode characteristics.

6. Explain working principle of a Zener diode.

7. How voltage is regulated in a Zener diode?

8. What is reverse resistance in Zener diode?

9. What is forward and reverse breakdown voltage in Zener diode?

10. Explain how the time constant helps in designing a clamping circuit.

11. What is biased clipping?

12. What is the effect of frequency on clipping circuits?

13. What are the applications of clipping and clamping circuit?

14. What is a rectifier? Explain different rectifier circuits.

15. Explain PIV; ripple factor, efficiency and regulation with respect to rectifiers.

16. Explain the role of filter in rectifiers and the trade offs in this regard.

TRANSISTOR CHARACTERISTICS CE MODE & CB MODE

17. What do you mean by Transistor?

18. What are the types of Transistor?

19. Why it is called Bipolar?

20. What do you mean by Bipolar and Unipolar?

21. Explain briefly NPN & PNP transistor.

22. What is the voltage gain of CE mode?

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23. What is voltage gain?

24. What is current gain?

25. What is the relationship between voltage and current gain?

26. What is the relationship between current in base, collector &emitter junction?

27. What is the current gain in CB mode?

28. What are the materials used for preparing transistor?

29. Is there any phase inversion in CB & CC mode?

30. Is there any phase inversion in CE mode?

31. What is the Input impedance in CB, CC, and CE mode?

32. What is the Output impedance in CB, CC, and CE mode?

33. In which mode power gain is more?

34. What are h-parameters?

35. Explain each h-parameter calculation with the help of I/P & O/P characteristics?

36. What are the typical values of h-parameters?

37. What is meant by quiescent operating point?

38. How should quiescent operating point be located to get distortion less amplification?

39. What is the need of biasing a transistor?

40. Distinguish b/w DC load line & AC load line on collector characteristics?

41. Define h-parameters of a two-port network?

42. What are biasing combination in a transistor?

43. What is DC current gain & base transport factor?

44. What is the necessity of studying the frequency response cure?

45. What causes non-linear distortion in an amplifier?

46. How do you reduce lower 3-dB frequency in an RC coupled CE amplifier?

47. How much phase shift is introduced in single stage RC coupled amplifier?

48. Why do you prefer to express gain in dB?

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49. How

50. How do you calculate current gain in emitter follower circuit?

51. What is impedance matching?

52. What is the bandwidth of emitter follower in comparison with CE amplifier?

53. Why the circuit is called emitter follower?

54. What is DEF? What are the advantages of bootstrapping?

OSCILLATORS

55. What are the conditions for oscillations?

56. What type of feed back used in amplifier and oscillators?

57. What is the working principle of RC phase shift oscillators?

58. What are the different types of feedbacks?

59. How you are calculating the frequency of oscillations?

60. What is the difference between Hartley and Colpitt’s oscillators?

61. An oscillator is a ----------- device (rotating, non-rotating).

62. Oscillators employ ----------- feed back (+ve, -ve).

63. A phase shift oscillator --------- transformer (requires, does not require).

64. Explain the operation of tank circuit in oscillators?

65. What is an oscillator?

66. What is its need of oscillators?

67. Discuss the advantages of oscillators?

68. Explain the action of Hartley and Colpitt’s oscillators?

69. How you will get undamped oscillations from a tank circuit?

70. Why do you use three RC sections in RC oscillators?

71. Why is amplifier circuit necessary in an oscillator?

72. Why is crystal oscillator used in radio transmitter?

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73. What is Barkhausen criterion?

74. What are the applications of oscillators?

FEED-BACK CIRCUITS

75. What are the advantages of feed back circuits?

76. What are the different types of basic amplifier topology in feed back circuits?

77. Define figure of merit and its significance.

78. Discuss types of feedback circuits.

79. Explain the components in feedback circuits.

80. What are the applications of feedback circuits?

RESONANCE CIRCUITS and THEOREMS

81. What is series and parallel resonance?

82. Define quality factor and comment.

83. What are the applications of resonance circuits?

84. What are the significances of Thevenin’s and maximum power transfer theorems?

85. What is meant by a linear bilateral network?

86. What is impedance matching?