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II B.Tech II Semester Examinations,December-January, 2011-2012 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Electrical And Electronics Engineering Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 75 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Show that the gain of wein bridge oscillator using BJT must be at least 3 for oscillations to occur. (b) A crystal has L = 2H, C = 0.01pF, R = 2k, its mounting capacitance is 2pF calculate series and parallel resonating frequencies. [7+8] 2. (a) State and prove clamping-circuit theorem

(b) A square wave input as shown in Figure 1 is applied to the clamping circuit. Sketch the steady-state output waveform and derive the necessary expressions. [5+10]

3. (a) Explain the transistor switch in saturation region. (b) Explain the diode switch. [8+7]

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4. A BJT has hie =6 K , hf e = 224, at IC = 1mA with fT = 80MHz and Cb c = 12pF. Determine gm , rbb at room temperature and a collector current of 1 mA? [15] 5. (a) Design a collector coupled astable multivibrator for the following specications with silicon transistor. IC(sat) = 10mA; hf e(min) = 20; VCC =10V; pulse width=10sec; duty cycle = 40%. (b) Draw the circuit diagram of a xed bias binary with speed up capacitors and explain. [10+5] 6. (a) Dene thermal resistance of a power BJT and derive expression for the same. (b) A transistor with a maximum junction temperature specication of 1500 C dissipates a maximum power of 40 watts at a case temperature of 250 C and 2 watts at an ambient temperature of 250 C. Find 1

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i. The thermal resistance between the junction and the case. ii. The thermal resistance between the junction and ambient. iii. Maximum power dissipation capability for safe operation in free space at a temp. of 500 C. [3+12] 7. (a) With the help of necessary equations discuss the variation of Ai , Av , Ri and Ro with Rs and RL in CE conguration. (b) Derive the condition to obtain Av =1 in CC single stage amplier. [7+8]

8. (a) Draw the circuit diagram of current series feedback circuit and derive expressions for voltage gain, input and output resistances? (b) Explain the concept of feedback as applied to electronic amplier circuit. What are the advantages and disadvantages of positive and negative feedback? [7+8]

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II B.Tech II Semester Examinations,December-January, 2011-2012 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Electrical And Electronics Engineering Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 75 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Derive an expression for lower cut o frequency of feedback amplier. (b) Show that for current series feedback amplier input and output resistances are increased by a factor (1+A) with feedback. [7+8] 2. Draw and explain the circuit of Monostable Multivibrator with necessary waveforms and also derive the expression for pulse width. [15] 3. A transformer coupled class-A power amplier drives an 8 loud speaker through a transformer with turns ratio 20:1. The supply voltage is 24V, and the circuit delivers 4W to the load. Find (a) Primary input power

(b) RMS value of secondary voltage and current

(c) Eciency, if the operating collector current is 400mA. 4. (a) State and prove clamping circuit theorem.

(b) A clamping circuit and square wave input with T1 = 100sec & T2 = 1000sec is shown in Figure 2. Calculate and plot to scale the steady state output. Assume diode forward resistance, Rf = 100. [5+10]

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5. (a) Discuss the factors inuencing the low frequency response of a common source ampier. (b) Determine the lower cut o frequency for the circuit given below in Figure 3 using the following parameters, Cs = 10F, Ce = 20 F, CC = 1F, RS = 1 k, R1 = 40 k, R2 = 10 k, Re = 2 k, RC = 4k, RL = 2.2k, = 100, VCC = 20V. Assume any parameter values required. [7+8] 3

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6. (a) Explain how transistor can be used as a switch in the circuit, under what condition a transistor is said to be OFF and ON respectively. (b) A germanium transistor is operated at room temperature in the CE conguration. The supply voltage is 6 V, the collector-circuit resistance is 200 and the base current is 20 percent higher than the minimum value required to drive the transistor into saturation. Assume the following transistor parameters: Ico = -5A, IEO = -2A, hF E = 100, and rbb = 250 . Find VBE(Sat) and VCE(Sat) . [7+8] 7. (a) Dene

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i. Damped oscillations ii. Undamped oscillations (b) Why an LC tank circuit once excited does not produce sustained oscillations? (c) What are the factors which eect frequency stability of an oscillator? (d) Give two Barkhausen conditions required for sinusoidal oscillations to be sustained. [15] 8. For the circuit shown below in Figure 4, nd Zi , Zo , Av and Ai with h-parameters as hie = 2.7K, hre = 2104 , hf e = 180 and hoe = 25s. [15]

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Set No. 1

II B.Tech II Semester Examinations,December-January, 2011-2012 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Electrical And Electronics Engineering Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 75 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks

1. (a) What is meant by clipping in wave shaping? (b) Classify dierent types of clipper circuits. Give their circuits and explain their operation with the aid of transfer characteristics. [5+10] 2. (a) With the help of a diagram explain the working of a xed Bias transistor binary. (b) The xed bias binary uses n-p-n silicon transistors with hf e = 20. Assume that VCC = 12V, VBB = 3V, RC = 1k, R1 =10k & R2 = 20k. Find the stable state currents and voltages if VCE(sat) = 0 and VBE(sat) = 0. [5+10] 3. (a) Draw circuit of Quartz crystal?

(b) What makes a Quartz crystal produce stable oscillations? (c) What are the advantages of crystal oscillator?

4. (a) Classify ampliers depending on conduction period and sketch the input and output waveforms for each classication. (b) Discuss the design comsiderations for a maximum undistorted peak - to - peak output from a single stage BJT amplier. [7+8]

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5. (a) The open loop gain of an amplier is 50 and its bandwidth is 20 kHz. When a negative feedback is applied the bandwidth is increased to 25 kHz. What will be the required feedback? (b) Derive an expression for upper cuto frequency of feedback amplier? [7+8] 6. (a) Explain the phenomenon of latching in a transistor switch. (b) A transistor has fT = 50 MHz, hF E = 40, Cb c = 3 PF and operates with VCC = 12 V and RC = 500. The transistor is operating initially in the neighborhood of the cut-in point. What base current must be applied to drive the transistor into saturation in 1 sec? [5+10] 7. (a) Explain why the complimentary symmetry power amplier has become more popular in modern circuits. (b) A series-fed class-A power amplier shown in Figure 5, uses a silicon transistor and operates from 20V DC source. If the applied sinusoidal input signal generates a peak base current of 9mA, calculate: i. DC input power ii. AC output power iii. Eciency

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8. (a) Discuss the inuence of coupling capacitance Cc on low frequency response of an amplier. (b) Explain how the frequency response can be determined experimentally by applying a square wave to the amplier. [7+8]

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Set No. 3

II B.Tech II Semester Examinations,December-January, 2011-2012 ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS Electrical And Electronics Engineering Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 75 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Explain the principle of clamping. Discuss the eect of source impedance, shunt resistance and cut in voltage. (b) For the Figure 1b shown below, Vs is a sinusoidal voltage of peak 100 volts. Assume ideal diodes & RL = . Sketch the output voltage and transfer characteristic. [5+10]

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2. In an RC phase shift oscillator if the frequency of oscillations is 955 Hz and R1 = R2 = R3 = 680 k nd the value of capacitance in the feedback path. [15] 3. (a) Describe with necessary derivations, the eect of negative feedback on the bandwidth and distortion in an amplier. (b) What do you mean by feedback in amplier? Dene negative feedback and positive feedback. State the merits and demerits of negative feedback in an amplier? [7+8] 4. (a) Draw the circuit diagram of single stage CE amplier, Discuss the eect of emitter bypass capacitor on low frequency response. (b) The following low frequency parameters are known for a given transistor at Ic = 10mA, VCE = 10V and room temperature hie = 500, hoe = 4 105 A/V, hf e = 100, hre = 10. At the same operating frequency fT = 500MHz and Ce = 3pF compute the values of all hybrid parameters. [7+8] 5. Find lower and upper threshold voltage for Schmitt trigger circuits, with following data. Assume transistors with hF E = 30. VCC = 12V; RC1 = 4K; RC2 = 1K; R1 = 2K; RS = 1K; R2 = 6K; RE = 3K. [15] 7 8

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6. (a) Dene and explain the eects of Non linear Distortion, frequency distortion and phase distortion on the performance of Ampliers. (b) For a Single Stage Transistor amplier, Calculate Ai , Av , Ri and Ro for CC conguration with Rs = RL =10k, by Assuming typical values of h parameters. [7+8] 7. (a) Consider the transistor switch in CE conguration shown in Figure 7, operated with Vcc = 12V and Vbb = 0V. It is given that R2 = 2R1 = 68K, Rc =2.2k. Determine the values of IB and IC of the transistor. What is the minimum value of hF E for the transistor to operate in saturation when it is in ON state?

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(b) Explain Zener & Avalanche breakdown mechanisms in diodes.

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8. (a) Explain why a power amplier is always preceded by a voltage amplier? (b) A speaker is driven by a transformer coupled class-A amplier through 16 a 15 : 1 transformer. The circuit delivers 2W to the load. Vcc = 36V. Calculate:
AC power across the transformer secondary RMS value of load voltage RMS value of primary voltage RMS value of load and primary currents.

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