VARDHAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (Autonomous)

IV SEMESTER PULSE AND DIGITAL CIRCUITS

Course Code: AEC11T07 UNIT I Linear Wave Shaping High pass, low pass RC circuits, their response for sinusoidal, step, pulse, square, ramp and exponential inputs. High pass RC circuit as differentiator and Low pass RC circuit as integrator, attenuators, RL and RLC circuits and their response for step input, Ringing circuit. L T P 4 - C 4

UNIT II Steady State Switching Characteristics of Devices Diode as a switch, Diode Switching Times, temperature variation of saturation parameters, design of transistor as a switch, transistor-switching times, transistor in saturation. Non-Linear Wave Shaping Diode clippers, Transistor clippers, clipping at two independent levels, Emitter coupled clipper, Comparators, applications of voltage comparators, clamping operation, clamping circuits using diode with different inputs, Clamping circuit theorem, practical clamping circuits, effect of diode characteristics on clamping voltage. UNIT III Bistable Multivibrators The stable state of a Bistable Multivibrator, Design and Analysis of Fixed bias and self biased bistable Multivibrator, Emitter coupled bistable multivibrator, direct binary, and Schmitt trigger circuit using transistors. Monostable and Astable Multivibrators Monostable Multivibrator, Design and Analysis of collector coupled and emitter coupled monostable multivibrator, Triggering of monostable multivibrator, Astable multivibrator, collector coupled and emitter coupled Astable Multivibrator. UNIT IV Time Base Generators General features of a time base signal, methods of generating time base waveform, Miller and Bootstrap time base generators basic principles, Transistor miller time base generator, Transistor Bootstrap time base generator, Current time base generators, methods of linearity improvements. Synchronization and Frequency Division Principles of Synchronization, Frequency division in sweep circuit, Astable relaxation circuits, Monostable relaxation circuits, Synchronization of a sweep circuit with symmetrical signals, Sine wave frequency division with a sweep circuit UNIT V Sampling Gates Basic operating principles of sampling gates, Unidirectional diode gate, Bi-directional sampling gates using transistors, Reduction of pedestal in gate circuit, four diode sampling gate, an alternate form of four diode gate, six diode sampling gate, , Chopper Amplifier, Sampling Scope. Logic Families: Realization of Logic Gates (OR, AND, NOT) Using Diodes & Transistors, DCTL, RTL, DTL, TTL, ECL, CML, CMOS logic family and comparison of logic families. TEXT BOOKS: 1. Jacob Millman, Herbert Taub and Mothiki S. Prakash Rao, Millmans Pulse, Digital and Switching Waveforms, Tata McGraw-Hill,3rd Edition, 2008. REFERENCES: 1. David A. Bell, Solid state pulse circuits, PHI, 4TH Edition, 2002. 2. A.Anand Kumar, Pulse and Digital Circuits, 2005, PHI. 3. Motheki S. Prakash Rao, Pulse and Digital Circuits, TMH, 2006.