Proposed PG Curriculum Structure (Communication Engineering and Signal Processing)

Semester I
Sr.
Course Stream Course Code/Course Name Credits L-T-P
No.
SCM5011: Internet of Things 1.5
1. Soft Computing
SCM5012 : Machine Learning 1.5
Design of
experiments and DRM5011 : Design of experiments and
2. 3
research research methodology
methodology
3-0-0
3. Program Core-I Signal Theory 3
2-0-2
4. Program Core-II Advanced Data Communication 3

 Advanced Optical Communication 3 2-0-2

3 2-0-2
 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
3 2-0-2
Program  Antenna Theory and Design
5. 3 2-0-2
Elective-I  Advanced Embedded System Design
 Analog and Digital VLSI Design 3 2-0-2

EMM5011: EM1: Fourier Transforms 1

Engineering
EMM5013 : EM2: Numerical Methods 1
6. Mathematics
EMM5012 : EM3: Optimization Techniques-
(EM) 1
II
Total Credits 18
 Semester II

Sr.
Course Stream Course Code /Course Name Credits L-T-P
No.
SSM5021: Communication Skills (CS) 1.5
Soft Skills and SSM5022 : Management and
1. 1
Management Entrepreneurship(M)/IPR
SSM5023 : Professional Ethics (PE) 0.5
Program Core 2-0-2
2. Advanced Digital Communication 3
III
Program Core- 2-0-2
3. Advanced Wireless Communication 3
IV

 Information Theory and Coding 3 3-0-0

 Advanced Digital Image Processing 3 3-0-0
Program
 Micro and Nano Technology 3 2-0-2
4. Elective-II 2-0-2
 Photonic devices and Circuits 3
 Microwave Theory and Techniques 3 2-0-2

Open Elective 1
1.5
 ECO5001: Neural Networks
5. Open Elective
Open Elective 2 1.5
 ECO5002: Applications of Neural Networks
Mini project/
6. ECP5001 : Mini Project/Pre-dissertation 3
Pre-dissertation
Total Credits 18
Course Name : Signal Theory
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 300
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 42
Course Objectives:
 To teach the students some advanced aspects of signals in communication systems and to
familiarize the students with the classical statistical inference techniques (such as detection and
estimation techniques) and their applications to Communication and Signal Processing
problems.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Introduction 7
Deterministic and Random Signals, Discrete random variables and their properties,
Continuous random variables and their properties like PDF, CDF, and MGF.
Stochastic convergence, law of large numbers, central limit theorem

2. Module -2: Random processes 7

Stationarity, mean, correlation, and covariance functions, WSS random process;
autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions; transmission of a random process
through a linear filter; power spectral density; white random process; Gaussian
process; Poisson process
3. Module–3: Classical Decision Theory 8

Binary hypothesis testing: Bayes criterion, Neyman-Pearson criterion, min-max test;

M-ary hypothesis testing: General rule, minimum probability of error decision rule,
Gaussian case and associated geometric concepts, Erasure decision problem

4. Module–4: Classical Estimation Theory 10

Random parameter estimation, Non-random parameter estimation, Linear minimum
variance estimation, Least squares methods, CRLB (Cramer-Rao Lower Bound) for
random parameter estimation, condition for statistical efficiency, estimation with
Gaussian density function: Linear and non-linear observation, sequential estimation.
Multiple parameter estimation
5 Module–5: Applications of Detection and Estimation theory 10
Detection of signals: The general Gaussian problem, Mathematical preliminaries:
(Karhunen –Loeve) K-L expansion, eigenfunctions etc., Detection of known and
un-known (i.e. with unknown parameters) signals in AWGN, Detection of signals in
colored noise. Linear estimation: Wiener filters and solution of Wiener Hopf
Equations, Kalman-Bucy filters
Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the concept of discrete and continuous random variables and get comfortable with
their statistical characteristics. 5
2. Describe the concept of random processes and their characteristic functions, and work with
different stochastic processes like Gaussian and Poisson Process.
3. Understand the basic techniques of classical decision/detection theory
 4. Understand the Basic techniques of classical estimation theory

5. Appreciate the importance and application of statistical signal processing techniques in the
communication engineering problems.

Bibliography:

Sr. Year of
No. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Publication/
Reprint
A. Papoulis and S. U. Pillai, "Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic 2002
1
Processes," 4th edition, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill
Robert G. Gallager, “Stochastic Processes: Theory for Applications”, CUP, 1st
2 2013
edition
Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory, Part I , H. L. Van Trees.
3
Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, Volume I: Estimation Theory;
4 1993
S.M. Kay, Prentice Hall
Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, Volume II: Detection Theory;
5 1993
S.M. Kay, Prentice
Recently Published Papers
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 Course Name : Advanced Data Communication
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 202
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 28
No. of Lab Hours: 28
Course Objectives:
 By the end of this course, the students should be able to define the basic concepts/protocols of
Data communication networks with different models, understand the access, edge, and core
networks. The students should also be able to describe the BISDN architecture and analyze its
QoS metrics, summarize the Queueing concept for performance modelling of communication
networks and explore the design and development of recent networking technologies.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Introduction 8
OSI and TCP/IP model layering architecture and their protocols, evolution of
BISDN model; Access networks – copper, fiber and wireless access networks,
xPON; Edge and Metro networks – BISDN, Carrier Ethernet; Core Networks–
SDH and optical networks; Operation Support Subsystem (OSS) and
telecommunication management Networks (TMN)
2. Module–2: Broadband services and QOS issues: Quality of Service issues in 6
networks, Integrated service architecture, Queuing Disciplines, Weighted Fair
Queuing, Random Early Detection, Differentiated Services, Protocols for QOS
support, Resource reservation-RSVP- Multi protocol Label switching (MPLS), Real
Time transport protocol.

3. Module–3: Performance analysis: 6

Introduction to Queuing theory, Markov chain, Discrete time and continuous time
Markov chains, Poisson process, Queuing models for Datagram networks, Little's
theorem- M/M/1 queuing systems, M/M/m/m queuing models, M/G/1 queue, Mean
value analysis, Time reversibility, Closed queuing networks, Jackson's Networks.
Networks of transmission lines, Networks of queues

Module-4 Selected Topics in communication Networks 8

4. Software defined Networking (SDN), Network function Virtualization (NFV),
Open- Radio Access Networks (O-RAN), Software Defined Radio/ Cognitive Radio
Networks: Introduction, need of cognitive radio, Challenges, requirements, Network
Architectures, Spectrum Sensing Techniques

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.
 Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Describe the basic building blocks of a computer network and understand the architecture of
access, edge, and core networks

2. Describe the broadband integrated services architecture and analyze its quality -of -service
(QoS) metrics
3. Develop a strong theoretical foundation on performance analysis of various queueing models
with applications to Internet

4. Develop the ability to explore the design and development of recent networking technologies

Bibliography:
Sr. Year of
No. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Publication/
Reprint
Peterson L.L. and Davie B.S., Computer Networks: A System Approach,
1 2012
Elsevier, 5th edition
James. F. Kurose and Keith.W. Ross, Computer Networks, A top-down approach
2 2015
featuring the Internet, Pearson Education, 5th edition

D. Bertsekas and R. Gallager, Data Networks, PHI, 2ndedition

3 2000
S. Keshav, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, Pearson
4 2005
Education
William Stallings, "Data and Computer Communication", PHI, 4th Ed.
5
Recent Publications in relevant field
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Course Name : Advanced Digital Communications
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 202
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 28
Total No. of Lab hrs: 28

Course Objectives:
The main objective of this course is:
 to introduce the students to advanced topics in digital communications. This course aims to
provide the students with strong theoretical foundation in digital communications such as
analysis/evaluation of receiver/link performance that are used in the design and
implementation of current communication systems and also useful in the development of the
communication systems of the future.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Digital Modulated Scheme and Optimum Receivers 11
Representation of digitally Modulated Signals and their power spectral densities,
Optimal receiver for AWGN Channel (Matched Filter), The Nyquist criterion for ISI
avoidance: relating bandwidth to the symbol rate; Optimal detection and error
probability of band-limited and power limited signaling, Coherent and non-coherent
receivers and their performance (evaluating BER performance); Comparison of
digital signaling methods
2. Module–2 Carrier and Symbol Synchronization 5
Receiver design requirements, Signal Parameter estimation: Carrier recovery and
symbol synchronization in signal demodulation, Carrier Phase estimation, Symbol
timing estimation, Joint estimation of Carrier Phase and Symbol timing,
Performance characteristics of ML estimators.
3. Module–3 Channel Equalization 6
The channel model, Receiver front end, Eye diagram, Maximum Likelihood
sequence estimation, Geometrical model for suboptimal equalizer design, Linear
equalization, adaptive implementations, Decision feedback equalization,
Performance analysis of MLSE, iterative equalization and Decoding-Turbo
equalization.
4.. Module–4 Latest Digital Modulation Techniques 6
Physical modelling for wireless channels, Fading and diversity, OFDM, CDMA,
MIMO- linear array, Beam-steering, MIMO-OFDM, Spatial Multiplexing, Space-
time coding, mmWave Communication, 4G, 5G standard.

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.
Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the principle behind the designing of optimal receivers for AWGN and
bandlimited channels.
2. Analyze the performance of different digital signaling techniques and judge their applicability
and performance in different application scenarios.
3. Appreciate the requirement of carrier and symbol synchronization and the techniques used for
the same
4. Understand the different channel Equalization Techniques to reduce ISI and Noise effects

5. explore topics in Advanced and Emerging wireless communication standards like 4G, 5G and
different WLAN that include MIMO, mmWave communication,

Sr. Year of
No. Book Detail
Publication
Proakis, J.G. and Saheli, M., “Digital Communications” , 5thEd.,McGraw-Hill
1. 2008
Barry, J.R., Lee, E.A. and Messerschmitt, D.G., “Digital Communication”,
2. 2004
3rd Ed., Kluwer
R. G. Gallager, Principles of Digital Communication, Cambridge Univ. Press
3 2008
Multi-carrier Digital Communications: Theory and Applications of OFDM
4 2004
(2nd Edition) by A. R. S. Bahai, B. R. Saltzberg, M.Ergen, Springer
Modern Wireless Communications by Simon Haykin and Michael Moher,
5 2004
Person
Course Name : Advanced Wireless Communications
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 202
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 28
No. of Lab Hours:28
Course Objectives:
 To learn the different channel models, modulation and multiple access techniques in
wireless communications and analyze the capacity of different wireless channels.
 To acquaint the students with the concepts and the issues involved in the design of wireless
sensor networks and latest wireless communication technologies.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Overview of Wireless channel Modelling and its capacity 10
The wireless channel: physical modeling, linear time-varying system, discrete-time
baseband model, time and frequency coherence; Point-to-Point Communication:
detection, diversity, spatial multiplexing; Cellular Systems: multiple access and
interference management, Capacity of point-to-point wireless channels: single and
multi-antenna; Capacity of single-antenna multiuser channels, Point-to-Point multi-
antenna (MIMO) channels and spatial multiplexing, point-to-point MIMO capacity
and multiplexing architectures.
2. Module–2: Modulation Techniques for Wireless Communications 7
Constant envelope modulation techniques, GMSK; OQPSK and π/4 QPSK; Spread
spectrum modulation techniques and RAKE receiver; Multicarrier modulation
techniques: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and its
implementation, Performance in fading and multipath channels., Multiple Access
Techniques, case study and projects
3. Module–3: Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks 5
Design factors, WSN architecture, structure of sensor nodes, mobile sensor
networks, clustering in WSN, theory of detection in WSN, types of WSN, WSN
coverage and connectivity, Distributed Sensing Nodes, Power saving medium access
protocols, WPAN (IEEE 802.15), WSN V/s Ad-hoc networks, Applications of
WSNs, case study and projects
4. Module–4: New Age Wireless Technologies and Security 6
Overview of GSM-architecture, 3G, 4G (LTE and LTE-A), and 5G wireless
standards, Spectrum sharing, Small Cell, Heterogenous cellular network, WLAN
(IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (802.16), Bluetooth, Zigbee, DTH, Integrated vehicle
systems and UAV assisted wireless communication, Green Communication,
Security and routing techniques, Cryptography and network security, case study and
projects

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.
 Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. understand the wireless channel modelling and analyze the channel capacity in different
scenarios
2. get familiarized with the latest modulation, multiplexing, multiple access techniques utilized in
modern wireless communication system
3. Understand the concepts used behind the implementation of wireless sensor networks and its
applications
4. Appreciate and differentiate the technologies used in latest wireless communication standards

Bibliography

Sr. Year of
No. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Publication/
Reprint
Wireless communications, Andrea Goldsmith, 1st edition, Cambridge University press
1 2009

David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, ``Fundamentals of Wireless 2005

2
Communication,'' Cambridge University Press
Wireless communication, Principles and Practice, T.S Rappaport. 2nd Edition, Pearson
3 2010

Principles of Mobile Communication, Gordon L. Stüber, 4th edition, Springer

4 2017
Selmic, Rastko R., Vir V. Phoha, and Abdul Serwadda, Wireless Sensor
5 2016
Networks: Security, Coverage, and Localization, Springer
Recent publications in relevant fields
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 Course Name : Advanced Optical Communication
Course Code :
Credits : 3
L T P : 202
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 28
Total No. of Lab hrs: 28
Course Objectives:
The main objectives of this course are:
 Describe the building blocks of an optical fiber system and shall be familiarized with basic laws
and phenomena of optoelectronics, LASERs, LED diodes, fibers and detectors used in
optoelectronic systems.
 Summarize the various causes of signal degradation in optical fibers, loss and dispersion
management and optical multiplexing schemes.
 Explain the working of optical amplifiers, transmitter as well as at the receiver and various
measuring instruments etc.
 Keep in touch with the recent trends of fiber optics such as soliton communication, sensing
applications etc.

Course Contents:
Sr. Course contents No. of
No. Lectures
1. Signal Degradation and Management in Optical Communication Systems 7
Attenuation, Intrinsic &extrinsic losses, Linear & nonlinear effects, Dispersion
Losses in singe and multimode fibers, Dispersion induced limitations, Dispersion
compensation methods: DCF, dispersion shifted and dispersion flattened fibers
etc., Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) System Impact of ASE, Optical
amplifiers: SOA, EDFA, Raman & hybrid amplifiers.
2. Optical Transmitters and Receivers 10
Semiconductor lasers, Laser Rate Equations, Optical Modulators and optical
realization of Modulation Schemes, Multilevel Signalling, transmitter design.
Optical Receivers-Photodetector Performance Characteristics, Direct detection
and Coherent Receivers, Receiver Noise, Optimum Binary Receiver for Coherent
Systems
3. Advanced lightwave systems 6
WDM lightwave systems: broadcast-and-select WDM networks, wavelength-
routed networks, FTTH networks, Subcarrier multiplexing, Soliton based
communication, OCDMA, OFDM Transmitter and Receiver, Polarization
Division Multiplexing
4. Components of fiber optic networks 5
Passive components, Switches and functional modules of fiber optic networks,
Test and measuring instruments: OTDR, Optical spectrum analyzer (OSA), Fiber
optic sensors and their applications in various fields: Measurement of pressure,
temperature, current and voltage, liquid level and strain.

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.
Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Explain fundamental physical and technical base of fiber manufacturing & degradation
management.
2. Understand the basic and applied concepts of optoelectronics systems, optical transmitter and
receiver design.
3. Understand the design aspects of various advanced lightwave communication systems,
various losses and their compensation methods.
4. Perform fiber-optic communication system engineering calculations, identify system
tradeoffs, and apply this knowledge to modern fiber optic systems.

Bibliography:
Sr. Year of
Book Detail
No. Publication
Mynbaev,“Fiber-optics communication Technology”, 1st edition, Pearson
1. 2002
Education India.
G.P. Aggarwal, “Fiber optic Communication systems, 3rd edition, John Wiley
2. 2002
and sons.
3. Keiser, "Optical fibre communication", 5th edition, Tata McGraw Hill. 2013
John M Senior, “Optical fiber communication”, 3rd edition, Pearson Education
4. 2010
India.
Joseph C.Palais, “Fiber optic Communication”, 5th edition, Pearson Education
5. 2011
India.
 Course Name : Advanced Digital Image Processing
Course Code :
Credits : 3
L T P : 202
Total No. Lectures: 28
Total No. of Lab hrs: 28
Course Objectives:

Course Contents:
Sr. Course contents No. of
No. Lectures
1. UNIT-I: IMAGE FUNDAMENTALS 6
Introduction, Steps in image processing systems, Image acquisition, Pixel
relationships, Frequency domain transformation techniques and their properties, Gray
scale and color images.

2. UNIT II: IMAGE PROCESSING & ENHANCEMENT 7

Image Point Processing: Gray-level mapping, non-liner gray-level mapping, image
histogram, histogram stretching, histogram equalization, thresholding. Neighborhood
Processing: Median filter, mean filter, correlation, template matching, edge detection.
Color image processing. Morphology: Dilation & erosion, closing & opening and
boundary detection. Spatial Image Enhancements- Transformations: Negative, Log,
Power, Histogram, Laplacian. Frequency Domain Image Enhancements: 1D FT,
Inverse, 2D FT, Filtering, Use of FT, Fast FT. Multi-resolution Expansions: Pyramidal
Multi-resolution analysis
3. UNIT III: ADVANCED PROCESSING 6
Statistics of natural images: Power law, Sparsity of DCT coefficients - Laplacian
model, Sparsity of wavelet coefficients, dependencies between wavelet coefficients in
different sub-bands, Bayesian models: likelihood and prior probability or probability
density with examples. Bayesian models: likelihood and prior probability or probability
density with examples, Denoising or deblurring using a Laplacian signal prior;
derivation of the ISTA algorithm in detail, Denoising or deblurring using a Gaussian
signal prior - leading to the Wiener filter
4. UNIT IV APPLICATIONS 9
Introduction to Biomedical signals: Bio-signal Characteristics of Electro Cardiogram
(ECG), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electromyogram (EMG), Phonocardiogram
(PCG), Objectives of Biomedical signal analysis, Computer-aided diagnosis. ECG
Signal Processing: ECG data acquisition, ECG lead system, ECG parameters and their
estimation, ECG QRS detection techniques: Template matching, differentiation based
QRS detection techniques. Compressed Sensing: Conventional sensing versus
compressed sensing, Application areas of compressed sensing: MRI, video, CT,
hyperspectral images, Shannon's sampling theorem and its limitations, Candes'
puzzling experiment, The role of sparsity, Concept of sensing matrix, representation
matrix and incoherence between the two.
 Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.
Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

Textbooks

1. R.C. Gonzalez and R.E. Woods, “Digital Image Processing”, Addison- Wesley, 2009.
2. D. A. Forsyth , J. Ponce, “Computer Vision: A Modern Approach”, Prentice Hall, 2011.
3. R.J. Shalkoff “Digital Image Processing and Computer-Vision”,John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000.
4. Anil K. Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”. Pearson Education, 1989.
5. Rangaraj M Rangayyan, “Biomedical Signal Analysis” –, IEEE Press, 2001.
6. "Natural Image Statistics", by Aapo Hyvarinen, Jarmo Hurri and Patrick Hoyer, Springer Verlag 2009.
7. "A Mathematical Introduction to Compressive Sensing", by Simon Foucart and Holger Rauhut,
Birkhauser, 2013
Course Name : Antenna theory and Design
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 202
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 28
No. of Lab Hours: 28
Course Objectives:
 By the end of this course, the students should understand the radiation phenomenon from
antenna, should be able to analyze any given antenna numerically and able to comment on
fundamental parameters of the given antenna. Through the lab component of the course, the
student will learn the design, and characterization of the antenna through latest commercially
available software. The fabrication and experimental verification of the antenna will build
fundamental concepts in practical environment.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Antenna and Antenna Arrays: Linear Wire Antennas, Loop Antennas, 6
Arrays: Linear , planar and circular, Antenna Synthesis, Horn Antennas: Corrugate
Horn, Dielectric loaded Horns, Conical Horns, Circular aperture antennas,
Travelling Wave and Broadband Antennas, Smart Antennas
2. Module–2: Integral equations, Moment Method, Broadband and Matching 8
Techniques: Integral Equation method, Finite Diameter wires, Moment Method
Solution, Self and Mutual Impedance, Mutual Coupling, Biconical Antenna,
Cylindrical Dipole, Folded Dipole, Discone and Conical Skirt Monopole , Matching
Techniques
3. Module–3: Micostrip Antennas: 7
Rectangular Patch, Circular Patch, Quality Factor, Bandwidth, and Efficiency, Input
Impedance,Coupling, Circular Polarization, Arrays and Feed Networks
4. Module-4 Measurement of antenna parameters 7
Antenna Measurements, Antenna Ranges, Radiation Patterns, Gain Measurements,
Directivity Measurements, Radiation, Efficiency, Impedance Measurements,
Current Measurements, Polarization Measurements
Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.

Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Develop the understanding to characterize any antenna with its fundamental parameters

2. Understand the analytical and physical process behind the radiation mechanism of different
types of antenna and should be able to derive the radiation of antenna.

3. Design and characterization of antennas with the given specific performance of antenna
parameters through software
 4. Develop the understanding of fabrication and measurement of antenna performance
parameters experimentally

Sr. Year of
No. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Publication/
Reprint
Antennas and Wave Propagation - J.D. Kraus, R.J. Marhefka and Ahmad S.
1 2010
Khan. TMH, New Delhi, 4th ed., (Special Indian Edition),
Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating Systems - E.C. Jordan and K.G. Bahrain.
2 2000
PHI, 2nd ed.,
Antenna Theory - C.A. Balanis, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd ed..
3 2005
Stutzman, W.L. and Thiele, H.A., “Antenna Theory and Design”, 2nd Ed.,
4 1998
John Wiley & Sons.
Elliot, R.S., “Antenna Theory and Design”, Revised edition, WileyIEEE Press.
5 2003
Recent Publications in relevant field
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 Course Name : ADVANCE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN
Course Code : XXX
Credits : 3
LTP : 2-0-2

Course Objectives:
1. To make students familiar with the basic concepts of embedded systems, applications in which
they are used and various aspects of embedded system design from Hardware and Software point
of view.
2. To equip students with knowledge and experience of Architecture & Programming concepts of
ARM microcontrollers and their supportive devices.
3. To impart an in-depth understanding of different tools and methodologies needed for the
development of smart, effective and low-cost embedded system applications.

Total No. of Lectures – 28

Lecture wise breakup Number
of
Lectures
INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED SYSTEMS:
1. 1
Evolution of microprocessors and embedded systems. General purpose computers vs
Embedded systems. Performance and power consumption, Moore’s law, Amdahl’s law. 3
ARM. Classifications: RISC, CISC, Flynn's Classification, Big and little endian CPI.
Computer Architecture: Pipelining stages, Superscalar processing, Throughput and
latency.
2. INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED SYSTEMS HARDWARE AND 3
SOFTWARE:
2 Terminology – Gates – Timing diagram – Memory – Microprocessor buses – Direct
memory access – Interrupts – Built interrupts – Interrupts basis – Shared data problems
– Interrupt latency - Embedded system evolution trends – Interrupt routines in an RTOS
environment.
3. EMBEDDED NETWORKING: 2
Embedded Networking: Introduction, I/O Device Ports and Buses- Serial Bus
communication protocols -RS232 standard – RS422 – RS485 – CAN Bus -Serial
3 Peripheral Interface (SPI) – Inter Integrated Circuits (I2C) -need for device drivers.
4. ARM ARCHITECTURE:
Cortex-M3/M4 Microcontroller STM32L15xxx ARM Cortex M3/M4 5
4 Microcontroller:
Memory and Bus Architecture, Power Control, Reset and Clock Control. STM32L15xxx
Peripherals: GPIOs, System Configuration Controller, NVIC, ADC, Comparators, GP
Timers, USART.
5. OVERVIEW OF CORTEX-M3 CORTEX-M3 BASICS: 5
Registers, general purpose registers, stack pointer, link register, program counter, special
registers, operation mode, exceptions and interrupts, vector tables, stack memory
operations, reset sequence. Instruction Sets: Assembly Basics, Instruction List,
Instruction Descriptions. Cortex-M3 Implementation Overview: Pipeline, Block
Diagram, Bus Interfaces on Cortex-M3, I-Code Bus, D-Code Bus, System Bus, External
PPB and DAP Bus.
6. CORTEX-M3/M4 PROGRAMMING: 6
Typical Development Flow, CMSIS (Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface
Standard), Using Assembly. Exception Programming: Using Interrupts,
Exception/Interrupt Handlers, Software Interrupts, Vector Table
Relocation. Memory Protection Unit and other Cortex-M3 features: MPU
Registers, Setting Up the MPU, Power Management, Multiprocessor Communication.
7. Case Study and Embedded System Application Development: 4
Embedded system applications in home, infrastructures, buildings, security, Industries,
Home appliances etc. Industry 4.0 concepts. Sensors and sensor Node and interfacing
using any Embedded target boards (ARM Cortex).

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.

Course Outcomes:
By the end of this course, the student will be able to
1To understand and explore various Embedded Development Strategies, Tools and Techniques available
for design and development of embedded system applications.
2 Understand, Define, Explain and Explore Architecture & Programming of ARM microcontrollers.
3 Incorporate suitable microcontroller along with appropriate interfacing circuits and implement the same for
an application with software programs.
4 Design systems based on ARM microcontroller and its interfaces.

Text Books:

1. Rajkamal, Embedded System-Architecture, Programming, Design, Mc Graw Hill, 2013.

2. Peckol, Embedded system Design, John Wiley and Sons,2010
3. Lyla B Das, Embedded Systems-An Integrated Approach, Pearson, 2013
4. Steve Furber, “ARM System-on-Chip Architecture”, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education
5. STM32L152xx ARM Cortex M3 Microcontroller Reference Manual
Course Name : ANALOG AND DIGITAL VLSI DESIGN
Course Code :
Credits : 3
LTP : 2-0-2
Course Objective:

The course on Digital and Analog integrated circuits deals with the key principles of design and
analysis of basic VLSI circuits and their fabrication technology.

Total No. of Lectures  28

Lecture wise breakup No. of Lectures
DIGITAL VLSI DESIGN
1. CMOS Inverter: CMOS Inverter Analysis and Design, Bi- 4
CMOS Inverters, Latch up in CMOS Circuits,
Pass Transistor, Transmission Gate, NMOS Inverter, Various Pull-ups,
switching characteristics- delay time calculation.
2. Combinational Logic Circuit, Transistor sizing in static CMOS logic gates, 6
static CMOS logic gate sizing considering method of logical effort,
dynamic logic, pass-transistor logic, common mode and other cross-
coupled logic families. Building Block, Multiplexer, De multiplexer,
Decoder, Encoder, Code Converters.
3 Layout design rules, Lambda based design rule, CMOS Inverter Layout, 4
Intra-Layer Design Rules, Colour Codes, Designing of Interconnects
between poly and diffusion.

ANALOG VLSI DESIGN

4. Analog MOS Process (Double Poly Process), fabrication of active devices, 5
passive devices and interconnects, capacitors and resistors, substrate
coupling, ground bounce. Single stage amplifiers: Common source stage,
source follower, common gate stage, cascode, Folded cascode

5 Differential Amplifier, General considerations, theory and design, 9

performance parameters, single-stage Op Amps, two-Stage Op Amps,
design of 2-stage MOS Operational amplifier, gain boosting, comparison
of various topologies, slew rate, offset effects, PSRR. Stability and
Frequency Compensation: General Considerations, multi-pole systems,
phase margin, frequency compensation, compensation techniques

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools facilities)
available in the respective Lab.
Course Outcomes: By the end of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Design CMOS inverters with specified noise margin and propagation delay.
2. Implement efficient techniques at circuit level for improving power and speed of combinational
and sequential circuits
3. Draw the layout of analog and digital VLSI circuits and analyse the parasitic calculation
4. Identify suitable topologies of the constituent sub systems and corresponding circuits as per the
specifications of the system
5. Design basic building blocks like sources, sinks, mirrors, up to layout level.

Suggested books:
Sr. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Year of
No. Publication/
reprint
1. Jan M Rabaey, Digital Integrated Circuits, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education Latest Edition
Sung-Mo Kang, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill Latest Edition
P R Gray and R G Meyer, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, 5th Latest Edition
Edition, Wiley
Course Name : Information Theory and Coding
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 300
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 42
Course Objectives:
The main objectives of this course are:

 To define and apply the basic concepts of information theory (entropy, channel capacity etc.)
 To learn the principles and applications of information theory in communication systems
 To study various data compression methods and describe the most common such methods
 To understand the theoretical framework upon which error-control codes are built

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Information theory 12
Concept of amount of information, information units Entropy: marginal,
conditional, joint and relative entropies, relation among entropies Mutual
information, information rate, channel capacity, redundancy and efficiency of
channels Discrete channels – Symmetric channels, Binary Symmetric Channel,
Binary Erasure Channel, Noise-Free Channel, Channel with independent I/O,
Cascaded channels, repetition of symbols, Binary asymmetric channel, Shannon
theorem.
2. Module -2: Source Coding Channel Coding 10
Source coding – Encoding techniques, Purpose of encoding, Instantaneous codes,
Construction of instantaneous codes, Kraft’s inequality, Coding efficiency and
redundancy, Source coding theorem. Construction of basic source codes – Shannon
Fano coding, Shannon Fano Elias coding, Huffman coding, Minimum variance
Huffman coding, Adaptive Huffman coding, Arithmetic coding, Dictionary coding
– LZ77, LZ78, LZW, ZIP coding Channel coding, Channel coding theorem for DMC
3. Module–3: Codes for error detection and correction 10
Parity check coding, Linear block codes, Error detecting and correcting
capabilities, Generator and Parity check matrices, Standard array and Syndrome
decoding, Hamming codes Cyclic codes – Generator polynomial, Generator and
Parity check matrices, Encoding of cyclic codes, Syndrome computation and error
detection, Decoding of cyclic codes, BCH codes, RS codes, Burst error correction
4. Module–4: Convolutional codes 10
Encoding and State, Tree and Trellis diagrams, Maximum likelihood decoding of
convolutional codes -Viterbi algorithm, Sequential decoding -Stack algorithm.
Interleaving techniques – Block and convolutional interleaving, Coding and
interleaving applied to CD digital audio system - CIRC encoding and decoding,
interpolation and muting. ARQ – Types of ARQ, Performance of ARQ, Probability
of error and throughput
Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. quantify the notion of information in a mathematically sound way
 2. explain what is the significance of this quantitative measure of information in the
communications systems
3. calculate entropy, joint entropy, relative entropy, conditional entropy, and channel capacity of a
system
4. differentiate between lossy and lossless compression techniques

5. decide an efficient data compression scheme for a given information source

6. explain the impact of feedback and/or many senders or receivers on the communication
systems

Bibliography:

Sr. Year of
No. Book Detail
Publication
J. A. Thomas and T. M. Cover: Elements of information theory, Wiley
1. 2006
J. H. van Lint: Introduction to Coding Theory, Third Edition, Springer
2. 1998
R. J. McEliece, The Theory of Information and Coding, Cambridge University
3
Press
R. Togneri, C.J.S deSilva, Fundamentals of Information Theory and Coding
4
Design, Taylor and Francis.
M. Medard and A. Sprintson, (editors): Network Coding – Fundamentals and
5 2012
Applications, Acadamic Press
R. Bose, Information Theory Coding and Cryptography, Tata McGraw Hill
6
Course Name : Advance Digital Signal Processing
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 300
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 42
Course Objectives:
 At the end of this subject students should be able to design and analyze the FIR and IIR filters.
The students should get familiarized with the non-parametric and parametric methods of
spectral estimation, multirate signal processing and its applications. Student should be able to
utilize the digital signal processing concepts to the speech and radar signals. The self-study
component will consist of design problems in the above to be implemented on MATLAB.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1: Introduction 10
Review of DFT, FFT, IIR Filters and FIR Filters: Introduction to filter structures
(IIR & FIR). Implementation of Digital Filters, specifically 2nd Order Narrow Band
Filter and 1st Order All Pass Filter. Frequency sampling structures of FIR, Lattice
structures, Forward prediction error, Back ward prediction error, Reflection
coefficients for lattice realization, Implementation of lattice structures for IIR filters,
Advantages of lattice structures.
2. Module -2: Non-Parametric Methods 7
Estimation of spectra from finite duration observation of signals, Nonparametric
Methods: Bartlett, Welch & Blackman-Tukey methods, Comparison of all Non-
Parametric methods
3. Module–3: Parametric Methods Autocorrelation & Its Properties, Relation between 8
auto correlation & model parameters, AR Models – Yule-Walker & Burg Methods,
MA & ARMA models for power spectrum estimation, Finite word length effect in
IIR digital Filters – Finite word-length effects in FFT algorithms.
4. Module–4: Multi Rate Signal Processing: 7
Introduction, Decimation by a factor D, Interpolation by a factor I, Sampling rate
conversion by a rational factor I/D, Multistage Implementation of Sampling Rate
Conversion, Filter design & Implementation for sampling rate conversion. Examples
of up-sampling using an All Pass Filter.
5 Module–5: Applications of Multi Rate Signal Processing 10
Design of Phase Shifters, Interfacing of Digital Systems with Different Sampling
Rates, Implementation of Narrow Band Low Pass Filters, Implementation of Digital
Filter Banks, Subband Coding of Speech Signals, Quadrature Mirror Filters,
Transmultiplexers, Over Sampling A/D and D/A Conversion. Application of DSP to
speech and radar signal processing.
Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Design, analyze, and implement the FIR and IIR filters

2. Understand the Non-parametric and parametric methods for spectral estimation

 3. Familiarized with the multirate signal processing concepts and its applications

4. Apply the digital signal processing techniques to speech and radar signals

Bibliograph

Sr. Year of
No. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Publication/
Reprint
J. G. Proakis & D. G. Manolakis, “Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms &
1
Applications”, 4th Edition, PHI.
Alan V Oppenheim & Ronald W Schaffer, “Discrete Time signal processing “,
2
PHI.
Emmanuel C. Ifeacher, Barrie. W. Jervis, “DSP – A Practical Approach”, 2nd
3 Edition, Pearson Education
P.P.Vaidyanathan, “Multi Rate Systems and Filter Banks”, Pearson Education.
4
Kaluri V. Rangarao, Ranjan K. Mallik, “Digital Signal Processing: A
5 2006
Practitioner’s Approach”, ISBN: 978-0-470-01769-2, John Weley.
S.Salivahanan, A.Vallavaraj, C.Gnanapriya, “Digital Signal Processing”,TMH
6 2000
S. Mittra, “Digital Signal Processing using MATLAB”, 2nd Edition
7
 Course Name : Micro and Nano Technology
Course Code : XXX
Credits : 3
LTP : 2-0-2

Course Objectives:
1. To impart knowledge of device physics/operation, technologies and problems/issues with micro-
nano devices and how to overcome these problems.
2. To make student familiar with the basic concepts of nano electronics and followed by the advanced
understanding of the nano-micro fabrication techniques.
3. To make student understand the impact of the physical and chemical processes of integrated circuit
fabrication technology on the design of integrated circuits.

Total No. of Lectures – 28

Lecture wise breakup Number
of
Lectures
REVIEW OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND MOSFETS:
1
Brief recapitulation- band theory, FD statistics, recombination effects and bipolar
junction devices. MOSFETs, MOS device modeling-long channel effects, short 4
channel structures scaled down device models, subthreshold conduction.. High
frequency devices-metal semiconductor contacts. MESFETS.
EMERGING NANOSCALE DEVICES and INTERCONNECTS 5
History of semiconductor devices, Moore's law, feature size and minimum feature
2 size trend. Si and hetero-structure nanowire MOSFETs, carbon nanotube
MOSFETs, Tunnel FET, quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots,
Resonant tunneling devices, Single electron transistors, Junctionless transistors,
Spintronics devices. Optical interconnects, Superconducting interconnects,
Nanotechnology interconnects, Silicon nanowires, Carbon nanotube (CNT) and
Graphene nanoribbon (GNR) interconnects, performance comparison of CNTs,
GNRs and copper interconnects.
CRYSTAL GROWTH, WAFER PREPARATION, EPITAXY AND 6
OXIDATION
3 Electronic Grade Silicon, Czochralski crystal growing, Silicon Shaping,
processing consideration, Vapor Phase Epitaxy, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Silicon
on Insulators, Epitaxial Evaluation, Growth Mechanism And kinetics, Thin
Oxides, Oxidation Techniques and Systems, Oxide properties, Redistribution of
Dopant At interface, Oxidation of Poly Silicon, Oxidation inducted Defects.
NANO-FABRICATION:
LITHOGRAPHY AND RELATIVE PLASMA ETCHING Optical 7
4 Lithography, Electron Lithography, X-Ray Lithography, Ion Lithography, Plasma
properties, Feature Size control and Anisotropic Etch mechanism, relative Plasma
Etching techniques and Equipment.
DEPOSITION, DIFFUSION, ION IMPLEMENTATION AND
METALLIZATION
Epitaxy and Thin Film Deposition, Film growth: PVD Processes Evaporation
(Thermal and ebeam), Chemical Growth Fundamentals of CVD growth Processes,
Modern variants: MOCVD, PECVD and ALD Spin Coating. Annealing Shallow
junction – High energy implantation – Physical vapors Deposition – Patterning
5 CHARACTERISATION TECHNIQUES
Morphological characterisation: Raman, XRD, SEM, AFM; Electrical
Characterisation: Electrical measurement techniques, two probe and four probe 4
measurement technique; RF characterisation
 6 APPLICATIONS 2
Introduction to novel smart materials, Photovoltaic technology and design,
Flexible electronics, Emerging Memory technologies (Magnetic, Phase Change,
Resistive) Molecular Switches and logic gates and Introduction to electronics and
Bio sensors.

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools
facilities) available in the respective Lab.

Course Outcomes:
By the end of this course, the student will be able :
1To understand physics behind nano-scaled semiconductor devices with the physical insight of their
functional characteristics.
2 To Understand, Define, Explore and Characterize novel materials for futuristic micro-nano devices.
3 Describe and explain how micro-nano devices are fabricated and characterized
4 Understand the fundamental function of micro-nano materials and devices & Describe the various
applications of nanotechnology in Communications systems, Energy harvesting, biotechnology &
medicine.

Suggested Books:

1. Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices by Yuan Taur & Tak H. Ning (Cambridge)
2. Introduction to Nanotechnology First Edition Risal Singh & shipra mital gupta (Oxford India
press -2016)
3. Fundamentals of Microfabrication and Nanotechnology (3rdEdition) by Marc Madou, (CRC
Press)
4. Chang, C.Y. and Sze, S.M., “ULSI Technology”, (McGraw-Hill)
5. Gandhi, S. K., “VLSI Fabrication Principles: Silicon and Gallium Arsenide”, (John Wiley and
Sons)
Course Name : PHOTONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS
Course Code :
Credits : 3
LTP : 2-0-2
Course Objective: The course on photonic integrated circuits (PICs) deals with the key principles
underlying the analysis and design of integrated photonic devices and circuits. Various aspects that will
be dealt are optical waveguide theory; passive and active devices, dynamic and functional devices;
materials and fabrication technology.

Total No. of Lectures  28

Lecture wise breakup No. of Lectures
1. INTRODUCTION 2

Distinction between electronic, optoelectronic and photonic devices;

Electrical and optical bandwidth, requirement of Photonic Integrated circuits
2. ADVANCED ON-CHIP WAVEGUIDES 8

Planar slab waveguides, symmetric and asymmetric waveguides; rectangular

waveguides, Marcatili’s method, Effective index method; graded index
waveguides; loss in planar slab waveguide; Silicon-on Insulator waveguide,
Silicon plasmonic waveguide, and silicon wire waveguide, Coupled mode
theory and applications.
3 ADVANCED INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES 8

Couplers, multimode interference-based couplers, tapers, bends, y- branch,

gratings, switches, filters, resonators, On chip Semiconductor Sources (LDs
(Double heterojunction, DFB, Quantum wire & dot), On chip Semiconductor
Detectors ( various types, their Structure and analysis)
4. ON CHIP PHOTONIC DEVICE FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY 7

Materials-glass, lithium niobate, silicon, compound semiconductors(III-V

compounds, SiGe etc.), polymers, metamaterial, graphene and other 2d
materials; fabrication techniques - lithography, ion-exchange, deposition,
diffusion process, and device characterization, packaging and environmental
issues.
5. INTEGRATION OF PHOTONIC DEVICES 3

Major Issues, photonic device integration, photonic-electronic integration,

power and power density issues on-chip.

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools
facilities) available in the respective Lab.
Course Outcomes: By the end of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Illustrate the importance of photonics integration and its applications

2. Design and analyse optoelectronics and photonics devices such as planar waveguides, high
speed laser diodes, tapers, bends and couplers etc.
2. Describe fabrication technology and select the materials for design of optoelectronic device.

Suggested books:
Sr. Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher Year of
No. Publication/
reprint
1. C R Pollock and M Lipson: Integrated photonics, Kluwer Academic Pub, 2003
2. Govind P Agrawal: Lightwave technology: component and devices, John Wiley 2004
,
3. . Katsunari Okamoto: Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides Academic Press 2006
4. Silicon Photonics: Fueling the Next Information Revolution by Daryl Inniss, Roy Latest edition
Rubenstein
 Course Name : MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
Course Code :
Credits : 3.0
LT P : 202
Segment : 1-6
Total No. Lectures: 28
No. of Lab Hours: 28
Course Objectives:
 By the end of this course, the students should be able to familiar with the microwave network
characterization parameters. The student should develop understanding to design the
microwave passive and active devices with specified performance constraints. To develop the
understanding for fabrication and measurement of microwave devices.

Course Contents:

Sr. Course contents No. of

No. Lectures
1. Module -1:Introduction and Microwave Devices: Scattering Parameters for 5
microwave Circuits. Power, Frequency and impedance, measurement, Network
Analyser and measurement of scattering parameters, Smith Chart, Impedance
Matching, Power dividers, Combiners, Couplers
2. Module–2: Microwave Filters: Periodic structures, Filter design by Image 8
parameter method, Filter design by Insertion loss method, Filter transformations,
Filter Implementation, Stepped Impedance low pass filters, coupled line filters,
filters using resonators
3. Module–3: Active Microwave Circuits 7
Noise in Microwave Circuits, Detectors and Mixers, PIN Diode Phase Shifters,
Microwave Integrated circuits, Overview of Microwave sources
4. Module-4 Design of Microwave Amplifiers And Oscillators 8
Characteristics of Microwave Transistors, Gain and stability: Two port power gains,
Single stage amplifier: design for maximum gain, Constant gain circles and design
for specified gain, Broadband Transistor amplifier design, Oscillator Design

Lab Work: Projects and case study with the latest tools (Experimental and simulation tools
facilities) available in the respective Lab.

Course Outcomes:
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Develop understanding of design and characterization of microwave active and passive devices

2. Develop an ability to design matching sections in microwave networks

3. Design and characterization of microwave passive and active devices using software

4. Develop the ability to perform microwave measurements

Sr. Year of
Publication/
No. Reprint
Name of Book/ Authors/ Publisher
Pozar, D.M., “Microwave Engineering”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Son
1 2004
Collin, R.E., “Foundations for Microwave Engineering”, 2nd Ed., John Wiley &
2 2000
Sons.

Ludwig, R. and Bretchko, P., “RF Circuit Design”, Pearson Education

3 2000
Hunter, I., “Theory and Design of Microwave Filters”, IEE Press.
4 2001
Edwards, T.C. and Steer M.B., “Foundations for Interconnects and Microstrip
5 2001
Design”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons.
 Course Name : NEURAL NETWORKS
Course Code : ECO5001
Credits : 1.5
L T P : 300
Segment : 1-3
Total No. of Lectures: 21
Course objectives:
The goals of this course are
 To introduce some of the fundamental techniques and principles of neural computation.
 Basic neural network models, single and multilayer perceptron.
 To investigate some associative Networks
 To investigate some networks based on competition

Course contents:
Sr. Course contents No of hrs.
No.
Introduction to neural networks:
Introduction to artificial neural networks, biological neural networks, comparison
1 between biological and artificial Neural Networks, terminology and various 7
architectures of Neural Networks, History of Neural Networks, MC Culloch-Pitt
Neuron model, various Activation functions.
Pattern Classification:
Hebbnet, Biases and threshold, Linear separability, Perceptron, Adaline and
2 7
Madaline. Architecture, training algorithms and application algorithms of these
networks.
Pattern Association:
Architecture, Training and application Algorithms for Pattern Association
3 networks, Heteroassociative Memory Neural Network, Auto associative Net, 7
Iterative Auto associative Net, Discrete Hopfield Network, Bidirectional
Associative Memory.

Course outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the enrolled students will be gaining the
following knowledge, skills and competences

1 Apply neural networks to pattern classification.

2 Apply neural networks to pattern recognition.
3 Exposed to the concepts of feed forward neural networks.
4 Adequate knowledge about feedback neural networks.

Bibliography:
S. No. Name of the book/authors/ publisher Year of
publication/reprin
t
1 Fundamentals of Neural Networks, Laurence Dausett, Pearson 2006
Education
2 Neural networks and Fuzzy Logic, K Vinoth Kumar,R. Saravana 2012
Kumar, Katson Books
3 Neural Networks and machine learning, Haykin, Pearson Education 2008
4 Neural Networks, Satish Kumar, TMH 2012
 Course Name : APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS
Course Code : ECO5002
Credits : 1.5
L T P : 300
Segment : 4-6
Total No. of Lectures: 21

Course objectives:
The goals of this course are
 To introduce some of neural networks based on competition.
 To introduce adaptive neural network models.
 To investigate networks based on gradient descent rules.
 To investigate some special networks and their applications

Course contents:
Sr. Course contents No of
No. hrs.
1 Neural Networks Based On Competition: Maxnet, Mexican Hat, Hamming Net, 7
Kohonen Self Organizing Maps, Learning Vector Quantization, Full and Forward
Counterpropagation. Application based on these networks. Use of
Counterpropagation net for a mathematical function.
2 Adaptive and Backpropagation networks: Adaptive Resonance Theory: 7
Introduction, architecture, algorithm and application of ART1. Backpropagation
neural net, architecture, algorithm, variations, applications, derivation of learning
rules. Applications based on backpropagation neural net.
3 Fixed Weight Networks: Fixed-Weight Nets for Constrained Optimization, 7
Neural Net approach to Constrained Optimization, Boltzmann Machine:
architecture, algorithm, Travelling Salesman Problem. Examples based on
Boltzmann Machine.

Course outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the enrolled students will be gaining the
following knowledge, skills and competences

1 Apply neural networks to generate functions.

2 Solve complex problems using multilayered neural networks.
3 Solving some problems using fixed weight neural networks.

Bibliography:
Sr. Name of the book/authors/ publisher Year of
No. publication/reprint
1 Fundamentals of Neural Networks, Laurence Dausett, Pearson 2006
Education
2 Neural networks and Fuzzy Logic, K Vinoth Kumar,R. Saravana 2012
Kumar, Katson Books
3 Neural Networks and machine learning, Haykin, Pearson Education 2008
4 Neural Networks, Satish Kumar, TMH 2012