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General Aptitude
Q. No. 1 - 5 Carry One Mark Each

1. Five different books (P, Q, R, S, T) are to be arranged on a shelf. The books R and S are to be arranged
first and second, respectively from the right side of the shelf. The number of different order in which P,
Q and T may be arranged is __________.
(A) 2 (B) 120 (C) 6 (C) 12
Key: (C)

2. The boat arrived ________ dawn.

(A) on (B) at (C) under (D) in
Key: (B)

3. It would take one machine 4 hours to complete a production order and another machine 2 hours to
complete the same order. If both machines work simultaneously at their respective constant rates, the
time taken to complete the same order is __________ hours.
(A) 2/3 (B) 7/3 (C) 4/3 (D) 3/4
Key: (C)

4. When he did not come home, she _______ him lying dead on the roadside somewhere
(A) concluded (B) pictured (C) notice (D) looked
Key: (B)

5. The strategies that the company ________ to sell its products ________ house-to-house marketing.
(A) uses, include (B) use, includes (C) uses, including (D) used, includes
Key: (A)

Q. No. 6 - 10 Carry Two Marks Each

6. “Indian history was written by British historians – extremely well documented and researched, but not
always impartial. History had to serve its purpose: Everything was made subservient to the glory of the
Union Jack. Latter-day Indian scholar presented a contrary picture.”
From the text above, we can infer that:
Indian history written by British historians ________.
(A) was well documented and not researched but was always biased
(B) was not well documented and researched and was sometimes biased

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(C) was well documented and researched but was sometimes biased
(D) was not well documented and researched and was always biased
Key: (C)

7. Two design consultants, P and Q, started working from 8 AM for a client. The client budgeted a total of
USD 3000 for the consultants. P stopped working when the hour hand moved by 210 degrees on the
clock. Q stopped working when the hour hand moved by 240 degrees. P took two tea breaks of 15
minutes each during her shift, but took no lunch break. Q took only one lunch break for 20 minutes, but
no tea breaks. The market rate for consultants is USD 200 per hour and breaks are not paid. After paying
the consultants, the client shall have USD ________ remaining in the budget.
(A) 000.00 (B) 433.33 (C) 166.67 (C) 300.00
Key: (C)

8. Five people P, Q, R, S and T work in a bank . P and Q don‟t like each other but have to share an office
till T gets a promotion and moves to the big office next to the garden. R, who is currently sharing an
office with T wants to move to the adjacent office with S, the handsome new intern. Given the floor
plan, what is the current location of Q, R and T?
(O = Office, WR = Washroom)

WR O1 O2 O3 O4 WR O1 O2 O3 O4
P,Q R,T S P,Q R S

(A) Manager Teller Teller (B) Manager Teller Teller

T 1 2
Entry Entry
Garden Garden

WR O1 O2 O3 O4 WR O1 O2 O3 O4
P Q R S P,Q T R,S

(C) (D)
Manager Teller Teller Manager Teller Teller
1 2 1 2
Entry Entry
Garden Garden

Key: (A)

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9. Four people are standing in a line facing you. They are Rahul, Mathew, Seema and Lohit. One is an
engineering, one is a doctor, one a teacher and another a dancer. You are told that:
1. Mathew is not standing next to Seema
2. There are two people standing beween Lohit and the engineer
3. Rahul is not a doctor
4. The teacher and the dancer are standing next to each other.
5. Seema is turning to her right to speak to the doctor standing next to her.
Who amongst them is an engineer?
(A) Rahul (B) Mathew (C) Seema (D) Lohit
Key: (B)

10. The bar graph in Panel (a) shows the proportion of male and female illiterates in 2001 and 2011. The
proportions of males and females in 2001 and 2011 are given in Panel (b) and (c), respectively. The total
population did not change during this period.
The percentage increase in the total number of literate from 2001 to 2011 is _________.

Proportion of illiterates  %

100
80
60
60 50
40 40
40
20
0
Female Male

2001 2011
Panel (a)

2001 2011

Female
Male 40% Male Female
60% 50% 50%

Panel (b) Panel (c)

(A) 33.43 (B) 35.43 (C) 34.43 (D) 30.43

Key: (D)

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Electronics and Communication Engineering

Q. No. 1 to 25 Carry One Mark Each

1. Radiation resistance of a small dipole current element of length l at a frequency of 3 GHz is 3 ohms. If
the length is changed by 1%, then the percentage change in the radiation resistance, rounded off two
decimal places, is __________%.
Key: (1)

2. Which one of the following functions is analytic over the entire complex plane?
1
(A) ln(z) (B) cos(z) (C) e1/z (D)
1 z
Key: (B)

  sin x
3. The value of the integral 0 y x
dx dy, is equal to _________.

Key: (2)

4. In the circuit shown, VS is a square wave of period T with maximum and minimum values of 8V and –
10V, respectively, Assume that the diode is ideal and R1  R 2  50. The average value of VL is
_________ volts (rounded off to 1 decimal place).
R1


8

0 VS 
T  R2 VL
T
2
10 

Key: (-3)

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2 2 3 3
0 1 1 1 
5. The number of distinct eigen values of the matrix A   is equal to __________.
0 0 3 3
 
0 0 0 2

Key: (3)

n
dy x
6. The families of curves represented by the solution of the equation   
dx y
For n = –1 and n = +1, respectively, are
(A) Hyperbolas and Circles (B) Circles and Hyperbolas
(C) Hyperbolas and Parabolas (D) Parabolas and Circles
Key: (A)

7. In the table shown, List-I and List-II, respectively, contain terms appearing on the left-hand side and the
right-hand side of Maxwell‟s equations (in their standard form). Match the left-hand side with the
corresponding right-hand side.
List-I List-II
1. .D (P) 0

2. E (Q) 

3. .B B
(R) 
t
4. H D
(S) J
t
(A) 1-Q, 2-R, 3-P, 4-S (B) 1-Q, 2-S, 3-P, 4-R
(C) 1-P, 2-R, 3-Q, 4-S (D) 1-R, 2-Q, 3-S, 4-P
Key: (A)

 2   
8. Consider the signal f  t   1  2cos  t   3sin  t   4cos  t   , where t is in seconds. Its
 3   2 4
fundamental time period, in seconds, is ___________.
Key: (12)

9. If X and Y are random variables such that E  2X  Y  0 and E  X  2Y  33, the E  X  E  Y =
__________.
Key: (11)

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10. In the circuit shown, what are the values of F for EN = 0 and EN = 1, respectively?

Vdd

EN

(A) 0 and 1 (B) Hi  Z and D (C) 0 and D (D) Hi  Z and D

Key: (C)

1
11. Let H(z) be the z-transform of a real-valued discrete time signal h[n]. If P  z   H  z  H   has a zero
z
1 1
z   j, and P(z) has a total of four zeros, which one of the following plots represents all the zeros
2 2
correctly?

z-plane Imaginary
axis
2

z 1

0.5
(A)
2 0.5 0.5 2 Real axis
0.5

2

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z-plane Imaginary
axis
2
1
z 1

0.5

(B) 1
2 0.5 2 Real axis
0.5

1

2

z-plane Imaginary
axis
2

(C) z 1

0.5

2 0.5 0.5 1
2 Real axis

2

z-plane Imaginary
axis
2

z 1

0.5
(D)
2 0.5 2 Real axis
0.5

2
Key: (B)

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12. Which one of the following options describes correctly the equilibrium band diagram at T= 300 K of a
Silicon pnn+p++ configuration shown in the figure?

p n n p 

EC EC
EF
(A) (B)
EF

EV
EV

EC
EC

EV EF
(C) (D)
EF
EV

Key: (C)

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13. In the circuit shown, A and B are the inputs and F is the output. What is the functionally of the circuit?

Vdd

A B

(A) XOR (B) XNOR (C) Latch (D) SRAM cell

Key: (B)

14. The correct circuit representation of the structure shown in the figure is

B E C

n 
p
n 

n

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C C

B B
(A) (B)

E E

C C

B B
(C) (D)

Key: (D) E E


15. What is the electric flux   E.daˆ  through a quarter-cylinder of height H (as shown in the figure) due to
an infinitely long the line charge along the axis of the cylinder with a change density of Q?
0

H Q

4H HQ HQ H 0
(A) (B) (C) (D)
Q 0 4 0 0 4Q
Key: (B)

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16. Let Z be an exponential random variable with mean 1. That is, the cumulative distribution function of Z
is given by
1  e x if x  0
Fz  x   
 0 if x  0
The Pr(Z > 2| Z > 1), rounded off to two decimal places, is equal to _________.
Key: (0.37)

17. A linear Hamming code is used to map 4-bit messages to 7-bit codewords. The encoder mapping is
linear. If the message 0001 is mapped to the codeward 0000111, and the message 0011 is mapped to the
codeword 1100110, then the message 0010 is mapped to
(A) 0010011 (B) 1111111 (C) 1111000 (D) 1100001
Key: (D)

18. In the circuit shown, the clock frequency, i.e., the frequency of the Clk signal, is 12 kHz. The frequency
of the signal at Q2 is __________ kHz.

D1 Q1 D2 Q2

Clk Q1 Clk Q2
12 kHz

Key: (4)

19. A standard CMOS inverter is designed with equal rise and fall times n  p  . If the width of the
pMOS transistor in the inverter is increased, what would be the effect on the LOW noise margin (NM L)
and the HIGH noise margin NMH?
(A) NML increases and NMH decrease (B) Both NML and NMH increase
(C) No change in the noise margins (D) NML decreases and NMH increases
Key: (B)

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20. For an LTI system, the Bode plot for its gain is as illustrated in the figure shown. The number of system
poles Np and the number of system zeros NZ in the frequency range 1Hz  f  107 Hz is

Gain (dB)
100 20 dB dec

60 dB sec
40 dB dec

104 105 106 107

0
101 102 103  in Hz 
40 dB dec

60 dB sec

(A) Np  4, Nz  2 (B) Np  7, Nz  4

(C) Np  6, Nz  3 (D) Np  5, Nz  2

Key: (C)

21. The figure shows the high- frequency C-V curve of a MOS capacitor (at T=300 K) with ms  0 V and
no oxide charges. The flat-band, inversion, and accumulation conditions are represented, respectively, by
the pints.
C

P Q

0 VG

(A) R,P,Q (B) Q,P,R (C) P,Q,R (D) Q,R,P

Key: (D)

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22. Consider the two-port resistive network shown in the figure. When an excitation of 5V is applied across
Port 1, and Port 2 is shorted, the current through the short circuit at Port 2 is measured to be 1 A (see (a)
in the figure).
Now, if an excitation of 5 V is applied across port 2, and port 1 is shorted (see (b) in the figure), what is
the current through the short circuit at port 1?
1 2

Port 1 R Port 2

1 2 1 2

 1A  5V
5V
 R
? R 

a  b
(A) 1A (B) 2A (C) 2.5A (D) 0.5A
Key: (A)

23. Let Y (s) be the unit-step response of a causal system having a transfer function
3s
G s 
 s  1 s  3
G s
That is, Y  s   . The forced response of the system is
s
(A) u  t   2e t u  t   e3t u  t  (B) 2u  t 

(C) u  t  (D) 2u  t   2e t u  t   e3t u  t 

Key: (A)

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24. The baseband signal m(t) shown in the figure is phase-modulated to generate the PM signal
  t   cos  2f c t  km  t  . The time t on the x-axis in the figure is in milliseconds. If the carrier
frequency is fc  50 kHz and k  10, the ratio of the minimum instantaneous frequency (in kHz) to the
maximum instantaneous frequency (in kHz) is_____ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).
mt

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
l in ms

1

Key: (1.33)

25. The value of the contour integral

2
1  1


2j 
 z   dz
z

Evaluated over the unit circle z  1 is__________.

Key: (0)

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Q. No. 26 - 55 Carry Two Marks Each

26. In the circuit shown, the threshold voltages of the pMOS Vtp   and nMOS  V tn  transistors are both
equal to 1 V. All the transistors have the same output resistance rds of 6 M. The other parameters are
listed below:
W
n Cox  60 A V 2 ;   5
 L nMOS
W
p Cox  30 A V 2 ;    10
 L pMOS
n and p are the carrier mobilities, and Cox is the oxide capacitance per unit area. Ignoring the effect
of channel length modulation and body bias, the gain of the circuit is______ (rounded off to 1 decimal
place).
Vdd 4V

Vout

Vin

Key: ()

27. It is desired to find three-tap causal filter which gives zero signal as an output to and input of the form
 jn   jn 
x  n   c1 exp     c2 exp  ,
 2   2 
Where c1 and c2 are arbitrary real numbers. The desired three-tap filter is given by
h 0  1, h 1  a, h 2  b and

h  n   0 for n  0 or n  2.

What are the values of the filter taps a and b if the output is y  n   0 for all n, when x[n] is as given
above?

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n0
x n yn   0

h  n   1,a, b

(A) a  1,b  1 (B) a  0,b  1

(C) a  1,b  1 (D) a  0,b  1
Key: (B)

28. Let h[n] be length-7 discrete-time finite impulse response filter, given by
h 0  4, h 1  3, h  2  2, h 3  1
h  1  3, h  2  2, h  3  1,

and h  n  is zero for n  4. A length-3 finite impulse response approximation g[n] of h[n] has to be
obtained such that

E  h,g    H  e j  G  e j  d
 2



is minimized, where H  e j  and G  e j  are the discrete-time Fourier transforms of h[n] and g[n],
respectively. For the filter that minimizes E(h,g), the value of 10g  1  g 1, rounded off to 2 decimal
places, is_______.
Key: (–27)

29. Consider the line integral   xdy  ydx .

C
The integral being taken in a counterclockwise direction over

the closed curve C that forms the boundary of the region R shown in the figure below. The region R is
the area enclosed by the union of a 2  3 rectangle and a semi-circle of radius 1. The line integral
evaluates to y

C
3

2 R

0 1 2 3 4 5 x

(A) 16  2 (B) 6   2 (C) 12   (D) 8  

Key: (C)

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30. A rectangular waveguide of width w and height h has cut-off frequencies for TE10 and TE11 modes in the
ratio 1:2. The aspect ratio w/h, rounded off to two decimal places, is_______.
Key: (1.732)

31. A Germanium sample of dimensions 1 cm 1 is illuminated with a 20 mW, 600 nm laser light source as
shown in the figure. The illuminated sample surface has a 100 nm of loss-less Silicon dioxide layer that
reflects one-fourth of the incident light. From the remaining light, one-third of the power is reflected
form the silicon dioxide- Germanium interface, one-third is absorbed in the Germanium layer, and one-
third is transmitted through the other side of the sample. If the absorption coefficient of Germanium at
600 nm 3 104 cm1 and the bandgap is 0.66 eV, the thickness of the Germanium layer, rounded off to 3
decimal places, is _____ m.
20mW,600 nm

1 cm

1 cm

Silicon dioxide 100 nm

Germanium T

Key: ()

32. In the circuit shown, the breakdown voltage and the maximum current of the Zener diode are 20 V and
60 mA, respectively. The values of R1 and R L are 200  and 1 k, respectively. What is the range of
Vi that will maintain the Zener diode in the „n‟ state?
R1


Vi  RL

(A) 24 V to 36V (B) 22 V to 34 V (C) 20 V to 28 V (D) 18 V to 24 V

Key: (A)

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33. A single bit, equally likely to be 0 and 1, is to be sent across an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)
channel with power spectral density N0 2. Binary signaling, with 0  p  t  and 1  q  t  , is used for
the transmission, along with an optimal receiver that minimizes the bit-error probability.
Let 1  t  , 2  t  form and orthonormal signal set.

If we choose p  t   1  t  and q  t   1  t  , we would obtain a certain bit-error probability Pb .

If we keep p  t   1  t  , but take q  t   E2  t  , for what value of E would we obtain the same bit-
error probability Pb ?
(A) 3 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 0
Key: (A)

34. Consider a six-point decimation-in-time Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, for which the signal-
 j2 
flow graph corresponding to X[1] is shown in the figure. Let W6  xp    . In the figure, what
 6 
should be the values of the coefficients a1 ,a 2, a 3 in terms of W6 so that X[1] is obtained correctly ?

x  0 X  0

x 3 X 1
a1

x 1 X  2
a2

X 3
x  4 a3

X  4
x  2

X 5
x 5
1

(A) a1  1,a 2  W62 ,a 3  W6 (B) a1  1,a 2  W62 , a 3  W6

(C) a1  1,a 2  W6 ,a 3  W62 (D) a1  1,a 2  W6 ,a 3  W62
Key: (D)

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35. The quantum efficiency   and responsivity  R  at a wavelength   in m  in a p-i-n photo detector
are related by
   1.24   1.24
(A) R  (B) R  (C) R  (D) R 
1.24  1.24   
Key: (A)

36. Consider a long-channel MOSFET with a channel length 1m and width 10 m. The device parameters
are acceptor concentration NA  5 1016 cm3 , electron mobility n  800 cm2 V  s, oxide
7
capacitance/area Cox  3.45 10 F cm , threshold voltage VT  0.7V. The drain saturation current
2

 IDsat  for a gate voltage of 5V is _______mA (rounded off to two decimal places).
0  8.854 1014 F cm, Si  11.9

Key: (25.51)

37. A voice signal m (t) is in the frequency range 5 kHz to 15 kHz. The signal is amplitude modulated to
generate an AM signal f  t   A 1  m  t   cos 2f c t, where f c  600 kHz.
The Am signal f(t) is to be digitized and archived. This is done by first sampling f(t) at 1.2 times the
Nyquist frequency, and then quantizing each sample using a 256-level quantizer. Finally, each quantized
sample is binary coded using K bits, where K is the minimum number of bits required for the encoding.
The rate, in Megabits per second (rounded off to 2 decimal places), of the resulting stream of coded bits
is _______Mbps.
Key: (11.808)

38. A random variable X takes values -1 and +1 with probabilities 0.2 and 0.8, respectively. It is transmitted
across a channel which adds noise N, so that the random variable at the channel output is Y = X +N. The
noise N is independent of X, and is uniformly distributed over the interval [-2, 2]. The receiver makes a
decision

  1, if Y  
X 
1, if Y  

Where the threshold   1,1 is chosen so as to minimize the probability of error Pr  X

  X  . The
 
minimum probability of error, rounded off to 1 decimal place, is _______.
Key: (0.1)

39. Let the state-space representation of an LTI system be x  t   Ax  t   Bu  t  , y  t   Cx  t   d u  t 

where A,B,C are matrices, d is a scalar, u(t) is the input to the system, and y(t) is its output.
Let B  0 0 1 and d  0. Which one of the following options for A and C will ensure that the transfer
T

1
function of this LTI system is H  s   ?
s  3s  2s  1
3 2

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0 1 0
(A) A   0 0 1  and C  1 0 0
 1 2 3

0 1 0
(B) A   0 0 1  and C  0 0 1
 1 2 3

0 1 0
(C) A   0 0 1  and C  0 0 1
 3 2 1

0 1 0
(D) A   0 0 1  and C  1 0 0
 3 2 1
Key: (B)

40. Two identical copper wires W1and W2 , placed in parallel as shown in the figure, carry currents I and
2I, respectively, in opposite directions. If the two wires are separated by a distance of 4r, then the

magnitude of the magnetic field B between the wires at a distance r form W1 is
W1

W2

5 0 I 0 I 6 0 I  02 I 2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
6r 6r 5r 2r 2
Key: (A)

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41. In the circuit shown, VS is a 10V square wave of period, T=4 ms with R  500 and C  10 F. The
capacitor is initially uncharged at t = 0, and the diode is assumed to be ideal.
The voltage across the capacitor  Vc  at 3 ms is equal to ______volts (rounded off to one decimal
place).

R
10

0 T
T
2 Vs
10
 C Vc
t 0 

Key: (4.51)

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42. Consider a causal second-order system with the transfer function G  s  
1  2s  s 2
1
With a unit-step R  s   as an input. Let C(s) be the corresponding output. The time taken by the
s
system output C(t) to reach 94% of its steady-state value limc  t  , rounded off to two decimal places, is
t 

(A) 5.25 (B) 2.81 (C) 4.50 (D) 3.89

Key: (C)

43. The RC circuit shown below has a variable resistance R(t) given by the following expression:
 t
R  t   R 0  t   for 0  t  T
 T
Where R 0  1, C  1F. We are also given that T  3 R 0C and the source voltage is VS  1V. If the
current at time t = 0 is 1A, then the current I(t), in amperes, at time t = T/2 is_________(rounded off to 2
decimal places).
R t
It

C

Vs 

t 0

Key: (0.1)

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44. In an ideal p-n junction with an ideality factor of 1 at T=300 K, the magnitude of the reverse-bias voltage
required to reach 75% of its reverse saturation current, rounded off to 2 decimal places, is ______mV.
k  1.38 1023 JK 1 , h  6.625 1034 J  s, q  1.602 1019 C

Key: (14.49)

45. The dispersion equation of a waveguide, which relates the wave number k to the frequency , is

k    1 c  2  02

Where the speed of light c  3 108 m s, and 0 is a constant. If the group velocity is 2 108 m s, then
the phase velocity is
(A) 2 108 m s (B) 1.5 108 m s (C) 3 108 m s (D) 4.5 108 m s
Key: (D)

46. The state transition diagram for the circuit shown is

D Q 1

Q 0

A
CLK
A 0 A 0
A 0 A 0
(A) (B) A 1
A 1
Q 0 Q 1
Q 0 Q 1
A 1
A 1

A 1 A 0
(C) A 0 A 0 (D)
A 0
A 1
Q 0 Q 1
Q 0 Q 1
A 1
A 1
Key: (B)

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k
47. Consider a unity feedback system, as in the figure shown, with an integral compensator and open-loop
s
transfer function
1
G s  
s  3s  2
2

Where K>0. The positive value of K for which there are exactly two poles of the unity feedback system
on the j axis is equal to ______ (rounded off to two decimal places).

 K
Xs  G s  Ys
 S

Key: (6)

48. Consider a differentiable function f  x  on the set of real numbers such that f  1  0 and f '  x   2.

Given these conditions, which one of the following inequalities is necessarily true for all x   2, 2 ?

1 1
(A) f  x   2 x  1 (B) f  x   2 x (C) f  x   x 1 (D) f  x   x
2 2

Key: (A)

d2 y dy
49. Consider the homogeneous ordinary differential equation x 2 2
 3x  3y  0, x  0
dx dx
With y  x  as a general solution. Given that y 1  1 and y  2   14 the value of y 1.5 , (rounded off

to two decimal places), is _________.

Key: (5.25)

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50. Let a random process Y(t) be described as Y  t   h  t   X  t   Z  t  , where X(t) is a white noise

process with power spectral density SX  f   5W / Hz. The filter h(t) has a magnitude response given by

H  f   0.5 for  5  f  5, and zero elsewhere. Z(t) is a stationary random process, uncorrelated with

X(t), with power spectral density as shown in the figure.

1 Sz f W/Hz

5 5 f Hz

The power in Y(t), in watts, is equal to ___________________W. (rounded off to two decimal places).

Key: (17.5)

51. In the circuits shown, the threshold voltage of each nMOS transistor is 0.6V. Ignoring the effect of
channel length modulation and body bias, the values of Vout1 and Vout2, respectively, in volts, are

3V

3V 
 Vout1
3V 


3V 3V 3V
Vout2

3V 


(A) 2.4 and 1.2 (B) 2.4 and 2.4 (C) 1.8 and 1.2 (D) 1.8 and 2.4

Key: (D)

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52. A CMOS inverter, designed to have a mid-point voltage VI equal to half of Vdd , as shown in the figure,
has the following parameters:
Vdd  3V Vout
 n Cox  100A/V ; Vtn  0.7 Vfor nMOS
2

Vdd
 p Cox  40A/V 2 ; Vtp  0.9V for pMOS

Vdd
2

Vdd Vdd Vin

Vi 
2
W W
The ratio of   t0   is equal to _________. (rounded off to three decimal places).
 L n  L p

Key: (0.225)

53. In the circuit shown, if v  t   2sin 1000t  volts, R  1k, and C  1F, then the steady-state current

i(t), in milliamperes (mA) is

i t 

C

R R
vt 
 C C

R
(A) sin 1000t   cos 1000t  (B) sin 1000t   3cos 1000t 

(C) 2 sin 1000t   2cos 1000t  (D) 3 sin 1000t   cos 1000t 

Key: (D)

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54. The block diagram of a system is illustrated in the figure shown, where X(s) is the input and Y(s) is the
Y s
output. The transfer function H  s   is
X s

  s
X s  
1 Y s
s
 1
s

s2  1 s2  1
(A) H  s   (B) H  s  
2s 2  1 s3  2s 2  s  1
s 1 s2  1
(C) H  s   (D) H  s  
s  s 1
2
s3  s 2  s  1

Key: (B)

55. In the circuit shown, V1  0 and V2  Vdd . The other relevant parameters are mentioned in the figure.

Ignoring the effect of channel length modulation and the body effect, the value of Iout is ____mA
(rounded off to one decimal place). Vdd

W/L10 W/L10 W/L40

Vdd Iout

V1 W/L5 W/L5 V2

1mA

W/L2 W/L3

Key: (0.5)

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