most important topics for preparation of gate 2023 in instrumentation engineering

The Important topics for the GATE 2023 Instrumentation engineering are provided below:

Engineering Mathematics

• Linear Algebra
• Calculus
• Differential Equations
• Analysis of Complex Variables
• Probability and Statistics
• Numerical Methods

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Electrical Circuits

• Voltage and Current Sources
• Kirchoff’s laws, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition etc
• Peak-, average- and rms values of ac quantities etc
• One-port and two-port networks etc.

3

Signals and Systems

• Periodic, aperiodic and impulse signals
• Laplace, Fourier and z-transforms
• Transfer function, frequency response of first and second order linear time invariant systems, impulse response of systems
• Convolution, correlation
• Discrete time system: impulse response, frequency response, pulse transfer function
• DFT and FFT
• Basics of IIR and FIR filters

4

Control Systems

• Feedback principles, signal flow graphs, transient response, steady-state-errors, Bode plot, phase and gain margins, Routh and Nyquist criteria, root loci, design of lead, lag and lead-lag compensators, state-space representation of systems; time-delay systems;
• Mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic system components, synchro pair, servo and stepper motors, servo valves;
• On-off, P, P-I, P-I-D, cascade, feed forward, and ratio controllers

5

Analog Electronics

• Characteristics and applications of diode, Zener diode, BJT and MOSFET;
• Small signal analysis of transistor circuits, feedback amplifiers. Characteristics of operational amplifiers
• Applications of opamps: difference amplifier, adder, subtractor, integrator, differentiator, instrumentation amplifier, precision rectifier, active filters and other circuits. Oscillators, signal generators, voltage controlled oscillators and phase locked loop.

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Digital Electronics

• Combinational logic circuits, minimization of Boolean functions. IC families: TTL and CMOS. Arithmetic circuits, comparators, Schmitt trigger, multi-vibrators, sequential circuits, flipflops, shift registers, timers and counters
• Sample-and-hold circuit, multiplexer, analog-to digital (successive approximation, integrating, flash and sigma-delta) and digital-to analog converters (weighted R, R-2R ladder and current steering logic). Characteristics of ADC and DAC (resolution, quantization, significant bits, conversion/settling time);
• Basics of number systems, 8-bit microprocessor and microcontroller: applications, memory and input-output interfacing
• Basics of data acquisition systems

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Measurements

• SI units, systematic and random errors in measurement, expression of uncertainty - accuracy and precision index, propagation of errors. PMMC, MI and dynamometer type instruments; dc potentiometer;
• Bridges for measurement of R, L and C, Q-meter. Measurement of voltage, current and power in single and three phase circuits
• AC and DC current probes
• True rms meters, voltage and current scaling, instrument transformers, timer/counter, time, phase and frequency measurements, digital voltmeter, digital multimeter
• Oscilloscope, shielding and grounding

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Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation

• Resistive-, capacitive-, inductive-, piezoelectric-, Hall effect sensors and associated signal conditioning circuits;
• Transducers for industrial instrumentation: displacement (linear and angular), velocity, acceleration, force, torque, vibration, shock, pressure (including low-pressure), flow (differential pressure, variable area, electromagnetic, ultrasonic, turbine and open channel flow etc

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Communication and Optical Instrumentation

• Amplitude- and frequency modulation and demodulation
• Shannon's sampling theorem, pulse code modulation
• Frequency and time division multiplexing, amplitude-, phase-,frequency-, pulse shift keying for digital modulation
• Optical sources and detectors: LED,laser, photo-diode, light dependent resistor and their characteristics
• Interferometer: applications in metrology
• Basics of fiber optic sensing

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