DEPT.

OF ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

EDW ORAL QUESTIONS

LINEAR POWER SUPPLY:
1.

Define regulator and give its applications

2.

What is difference between, voltage regulator and voltage reference?

3.

How will you classify voltage regulators?

4.

Compare LPS and SMPS.

5.

What is primary requirement of voltage reference?

6.

State or define performance specifications of voltage regulators.

7.

Define line regulation, load regulators and ripple rejection ratio.

8.

Why is protection required for regulators?

9.

Draw equivalent circuit of three terminal shunt regulators / series pass regulators.

10.

Draw the circuit of voltage reference.

11.

Draw a basic voltage regulator.

12.

Explain
I.

Overload protection.

II.

Fold back current limiting

III.

Basic thermal protection circuit

IV.

Short circuit protection.

13.

What is safe operating area?

14.

Can you use a voltage regulator as a current source?

15.

What is the need of current boosting and how it is achieve?

16.

What is use of two capacitors at the input and output of the regulator I C?

17.

Can fixed regulator be used as variable regulator?

18.

Compare three terminals regulator, with four terminal adjustable regulator.

19.

What are the functions of protection diode?

20.

What is dual tracking regulator?

21.

Justify heat sinks required or not for a voltage regulator circuit?

22.

On what basis have you selected a particular package for your design?

23.

Outline the design of rectifier circuits.

24.

Compare various rectifier circuits. Why are bridge rectifiers commonly used?

25.

Outline the design of transformer. Specify the ratings.

26.

What is ESL. And ESR for capacitor?

27.

How will you determine ripple factor?

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28.

What is surge current?

29.

What is bleeder resistance?

30.

How is the value of Rs. calculated?

31.

How are transformers classified?

32.

Outline the various locations of various components in our design.

33.

Justify the selection criteria for current boosting.

34.

Define all parmenters in our design.

(PIV, LR, LR, RRR,Surge current, etc.)

35.

Compare different types of filters. Why is C filter preferred?

36.

What are different characteristics of audio transformer?

37.

What is electronic transformer?

38.

How will you decide core size, gauge of wire for transformer?

39.

How much is the power dissipation or efficiency of the power supply design by your
group?

40.

Explain: selection criteria for input supply conditioning.

41.

Calculate load , line regulation of your designed linear power supply.

42.

How will you interface the display devices?

43.

How will you select display devices?

44.

What do you mean by 3 , 4 digit display?

45.

What is the provision for the supply of display devices?

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AUDIO PWER AMPLIFIER:
1.

Which are the different kinds of microphones? Outline their characteristics.

2.

How is the antenna selected?

3.

Give the principle of tape head input/

4.

Why is a preamplifier used? What factors have to be considered while designing a

preamplifier?

5.

Why is a preamplifier required in a stereophonic system?

6.

What is stereophonic and monophonic system?

7.

What is the function of a mixer?

8.

What are he different types of mixer?

9.

How are power amplifier classified?

10.

Explain the working of class a, class b, class ab amplifier?

11.

What is a tone control circuit?

12.

What are treble and bass control circuits?

13.

Explain the human ear response to the intensity of sound?

14.

What are the distortions associated with the audio amplifier?

15.

What is noise and how will you classify noise?

16.

What is the method for designing a power supply for the audio system?

17.

What are different types of stereo controls?

18.

What are different functions of stereo controls?

19.

What are different types of loudspeakers?

20.

What is the relation between power amplifier output impedance and loud speakers?

21.

What are the different requirements of the public address system?

22.

How much is the total power dissipation of your circuit?

23.

What is graphic equalizer? Compare it with parametric equalizer.

24.

Outline the specifications of your circuit.

25.

What is public address system?

26.

What is bandwidth of audio amplifier?

27.

Outline the different packages available for audio amplifier. Give its specifications,
important parameters, and features of the I C.

28.

What is bar-graph display?

29.

Logarithmic pot is preferred for overall sound/volume control. Why?

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30.

What is difference between noise and distortion?

31.

Enlist the following noise specifications: WOW. Flutter, HUM.

32.

Justify the selected components?

33.

What is the total cost of your design?

34.

What the conversion efficiency of your system?

35.

Enlist the main features of each block of your system.

36.

Specify the selection criteria for each block of your system.

37.

CD system is called Iii-Fi system, why?

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DATA ACQUISTTION SYSTME:

1.

What is data acquisition system (DAS)?

2.

What is difference between transducer and sensor?

3.

How will you classify transducers?

4.

What is two wires and three wires transducer?

5.

How will you interface transducer?

6.

What is selection criteria for transducers?

7.

Explain the function of each block?

8.

What is the format of output for two wire and three wire process transducers?

9.

Differentiate various serial communication RS232, RS423,RS435.

10.

What is criteria for selection of ADC, mux S/H cct?

11.

How will you interface display devices?

12.

Explain different types of display drivers and display devices.

13.

How will you control the parameters?

14.

How these controllers can be designed?

15.

What is need of isolation amplifier?

16.

What are the types of isolation amplifier?

17.

What is the type of isolation amplifier?

18.

How will you classify DAS. Define linearization and discuss various methods of
linearization. Is there any advantage of your design over the existing system?

19.

How will you calculate power dissipation?

20.

Which are the main parameter you have considered while selecting ICs?

21.

Can you implement optical fiber link between transmitting and receiving ends?

22.

What are important factors which decides configuration of DAS?

23.

What do you understand by ratiometric and logarithmic conversion?

24.

Which points has to be considered while interfacing two blocks?

25.

What are different multi channel systems for DAS?

26.

What is the selection criteria for components?

27.

What are different types of semiconductor memories?

28.

Explain instrumentation standards?

29.

What are the features of DAS?