ISRO Scientist or Engineer Electronics 2014

For the following questions answer them individually

In the circuit shown below, switch S1 and S2 are in open and close position respectively for long time. At $$t = t_o$$, switch S1 is closed and switch S2 is opened. What would be the current through R1 immediately after the transition of switches?

A digital board has a unipolar square clock of 250MHz. If the clock on the board at all places should have all the harmonic components which have more than 10% of DC value, the board has to be designed forat least

Which type of timing violation will occur, If a digital IC is operated at clock frequency which is higher than its specified maximum clock frequency?

If the maximum effective aperture of a radiating small loop of constant current is $$\left(\frac{3}{32 \pi}\right) m^2$$, the wavelength of the radiated electromagnetic wave is:

A radar system uses magnetron as high power RF source. Its transmitter emits 300kW RF power at 10% duty factor. If the efficiency of radar transmitter during pulse is 60% and the power required during pulse off period is 1 kW..The average power dissipation in radar is,

Which of the following computation will take minimum number of clock cycles, if it is implemented on 8051 micro-controller? Following is variable declaration in c code:
unsigned int a, b;

What is Discrete Time Fourier Transform (DTFT) of following signal?
$$x(n) = a^n$$ where $$n \geq 0, -1 < a < 1$$

The zener diode shown in following figure is temperature compensated and current gain $$\beta$$ of transistor is very high. If current through 100 ohm resistor is 55mA at $$25^\circ C$$, what is the approximate current throughit at $$65^\circ C$$?

Wewish to transmit a digital voice at 32 Kbps through a communication channel having bandwidth of 3000 Hz. The received signal to noise powerratio is 30 dB. State which of the following statementis true :

Consider a standard rectangular and a circular waveguide having same dominant mode cut-off frequency, determine the ratio of area of circular waveguide to rectangular waveguide:

Subsystem A requires two voltages V1 and V2 with equal power ratings. Power conversion scheme adapted for the power supply design is shown in the following figure. Whatis the overall power conversion efficiency?

A digital CMOS IC operating at 10MHz clock frequency consumes 100mW power; the same IC operating at 15 MHz clock frequency consumes 140mW power. Whatis the static power consumption of the IC?

An amplifier has a gain of 50 dB, and noise figure of 10dB. Assuming an ambient temperature of 300 K, what will be the total equivalent noise temperature at the input of the amplifier?

For a two port network to be reciprocal, its Scattering parameters must satisfy the following condition, for i = 1, 2 ; j = 1, 2

In the following circuit, what sequence is followed by A and B on rising edge of CLK after reset is de-asserted?

In an axial mode operation of a helical antenna, maximum field radiated by the antenna is:

Scattering Matrix for a microwave network, which is matchedatall the ports, will satisfy the following condition:

Following waveform shows output of a 4 bit DAC with 5V reference voltage. The 4 bit digital input of DAC is connected to 4 bit up counter, the one bit input of DAC Is stuck at ‘0’, which is this bit ?

A coherent QPSK demodulatoris required on ground for receiving data from a LEO satellite. What should be optimum order of PLL in the carrier phase tracking loop?

Two discrete time systems have impulse response $$h_1[n] = \delta[n - 3]$$ and $$h_2[n] = \delta[n - 5]$$. If these two systems are cascaded, thenthe overall impulse response of the cascaded system is

If an input signal with non-zero dc component is applied to a low pass RC network with single resistor R and single capacitor C as shown below, the dc component in the output will be :

What are poles and zeros of a system having following transfer function?
$$H(z) = (1 - z^{-2})(1 + 1.3 z^{-1} + 0.36 z^{-2})$$

If two tones $$f_1$$ and $$f_2$$ are amplified by a non-linear amplifier, which frequency components would be present in output?

Consider the sampling of the band-pass signal, whose spectrum is as shown below. What minimum sampling frequency would you use from the options given below, so as to avoid aliasing?

A resistor and a capacitor are connected in series with a sine wave generator having frequency suchthat the resistance and the capacitive reactance are same i.e. voltage across capacitance, $$V_c$$ is equal to Voltage across Resistance, $$V_R$$. If the frequency ofthe sine wave generator is doubled, then

A plane wave with a frequency of 3 GHz is propagating in an unbounded medium with relative permittivity $$ε_r = 6$$ and permeability $$\mu_r = 1.5$$, the phase velocity for this wave in this medium is

Which of the following statements is NOT true:

Range resolution of a Linear Frequency Modulated pulse compression radar depends on whichof the following factors:

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