2019

School of Electrical Sciences IIT Goa

M.TECH STRUCTURE-SES, IIT GOA

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MTech in Electrical Engineering

The M. Tech. structure encompasses the scope of the students from following GATE stream.

a. GATE – Electrical Engineering (EE)

b. GATE – Electronics and Communication Engineering (EC)

c. GATE – Instrumentation Engineering (IN)

A. MTech SES Program Structure:

The specialization of the current faculties in SES IIT Goa is broadly categorized in to following

streams namely Power, Communication and VLSI & Microelectronics, and below is the structure

of the program

MTech (2 years)

1st year 2nd Year

1st SEM 2nd SEM 3rd SEM 4th SEM

Core 1: Compulsory mathematics

Power Comm. VLSI

Project Phase I

Project Phase II

Core 2: Power group P_Ele 1 C_Ele 1 V_Ele 1

Core 3: Comm. group P_Ele 2 C_Ele 2 V_Ele 2

Core 4: VLSI group P_Ele 3 VC_Ele 3

Seminar + Professional communication

Summer internship: After 1st year

Project guide assignment: end of the 1st semester

Abbr.: Comm – communication, VLSI – Very large scale integrated circuits

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D. Courses for MTech in SES

Code Courses Preferred Stream

Core 1 Applied Linear Algebra in Electrical Engineering EE, EC, IN

Core 2 Introduction to Switched Electrical Circuits EE, EC, IN

Core 3 Advanced Digital Signal Processing EE, EC, IN

Core 4 Sensors and Analog Interfacing Circuits EE, EC, IN

P_Ele 1 Modelling and Design of Advanced Electrical Machines EE, IN

P_Ele 2 Power Electronics for Renewables and Electric Vehicle Applications EE, IN

P_Ele 3 Electromagnetic Compatibility EE, IN, EC

C_Ele 1 Information Theory and Coding EC

C_Ele 2 Wireless and Cellular Communication EC

V_Ele 1 Advanced Sensing and Mixed-Signal Circuits EC, IN

V_Ele 2 VLSI Design EC, IN

VC_Ele3 Circuits and Systems for Communication EC, IN

Seminar Literature review seminar (topic selected by the guide) EE, EC, IN

Comm. Technical writing and communication skills EE, EC, IN

Open electives

Ele1 Digital Measurement Techniques EE, EC, IN

Ele2 Modern Filter Design EE, EC, IN

Credits break-up

Courses Sem 1 Sem 2 Sem 3 Sem 4 Total

Core 24 (6*4) 0 0 0 24

Elective 0 18 (6*3) 0 0 18

Communication - 0(pass/no pass) - - 00

Seminar 0 6 0 0 06

Project 0 0 24 (phase I) 28 (phase II) 52

24 24 24 28 100

All course are having 6 credits and seminar is given 6, project phase I – 24 and project phase II –

28 (phases are evaluated within the department via though-rough seminar).

Minimum credit requirement is 100

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E. Course Contents:

Core 1: Applied Linear Algebra in Electrical Engineering

Vector spaces, linear dependence, basis; Representation of linear transformations with respect

to a basis; Inner product spaces, Hilbert spaces, linear functions; Riesz representation theorem

and adjoins; Orthogonal projections, products of projections, orthogonal direct sums; Unitary

and orthogonal transformations, complete orthonormal sets and Parseval's identity; Closed

subspaces and the projection theorem for Hilbert spaces.; Polynomials: The algebra of

polynomials, matrix polynomials, annihilating polynomials and invariant subspaces, forms.;

Applications: Complementary orthogonal spaces in networks, properties of graphs and their

relation to vector space properties of their matrix representations; Solution of state equations

in linear system theory; Relation between the rational and Jordan forms.; Numerical linear

algebra: Direct and iterative methods of solutions of linear equations; Matrices, norms,

complete metric spaces and complete normal linear spaces (Banach spaces); Least squares

problems (constrained and unconstrained); Eigenvalue problem.

References:

01. K. Hoffman and R. Kunze, Linear Algebra, Prentice-Hall , (1986).

02. G.H. Golub and C.F. Van Loan, Matrix Computations, Academic, 1983.

03. G. Bachman and L. Narici, Functional Analysis, Academic Press, 1966.

04. E.Kreyszig, introductory functional analysis with applications John Wiley, 1978.

Core 2: Introduction to Switched Electrical Circuits

Ideal switch and switching function, Voltage–current relations in switched circuits, Switched

Differential Algebraic Equations and state- space models, Pulse width modulation, Practical

switch realization using semiconductor devices, Practical limitations of the switches, losses and

efficiency of Power switching converters. Switching circuits for DC/DC power conversion,

Dynamic average modeling of switched DC/DC converter circuits, Switching circuits for Single

phase AC/DC conversion, Switching circuits for inversion and class D amplification, Multilevel

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converters, Switched-capacitor power conversion circuits for low power applications,

Synchronous rectifiers, Control strategies for variable structure systems applied to switching

circuits.

References:

01. Fundamentals of Power Electronics: Robert Erickson

02. The switching function: Analysis of Power Electronic Circuits, C.C Marouchos

03. Fast Analytical Techniques for Electrical and Electronic Circuits: Vache Vorperian

04. References from recent literature

05. Data sheets from manufacturers.

Core 3: Advanced Digital Signal Processing

Multirate Digital Signal Processing Introduction, Decimation by a Factor D, Interpolation by a Factor

I, Sampling Rate Conversion by a Rational Factor I/D, Filter Design and Implementation for sampling

rate Conversion Multirate Digital Signal Processing Multistage Implementation of Sampling Rate

Conversion, Applications of Multirate Signal Processing, Sampling Rate Conversion of Bandpass

Signals Linear Prediction And Optimum Linear Filters: Innovations Representation of a Stationary

Random Process, Forward and Backward linear prediction, Solution of the Normal Equations,

Properties of linear prediction-Error Filter, AR Lattice and ARMA Lattice-Ladder Filters. Power

Speciral Estimation: Estimation of Spectra from Finite Duration Observations of a signal, the

Periodogram, Use DFT in power Spectral Estimation, Bartlett, Welch and Blackman, Tukey methods,

Comparison of performance of Non-Parametric Power Spectrum Estimation Methods Parametric

Method Of Power Spectrum Estimation: Parametric Methods for power spectrum estimation,

Relationship between Auto-Correlation and Model Parameters, AR (Auto-Regressive) Process and

Linear Prediction, Yule-Walker, Burg and Unconstrained Least Squares Methods, Sequential

Estimation, Moving Average(MA) and ARMA Models Minimum Variance Method, Piscaranko’s

Harmonic Decomposition Methods, MUSIC Method

References:

01. Proakis and Manolakis “Digital Signal Processing Principles, Algorithms and Application,” PHI.

02. Openheim AV & Schafer RW, “Discrete Time Signal Processing” PHI

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Core 4: Sensors and Analog Interfacing Circuits

Physical Micro-sensors: Classification of physical sensors- Active and Passive sensors. Sensing

mechanism and Examples: Thermal sensors, Electrical Sensors, Mechanical Sensors, Chemical and

Biosensors. Sensor Applications: Cantilever array sensors, Nanotube based sensors, Nanowire based

sensors. Interfacing blocks: Current mirrors, Basic CMOS gain stages, Cascode circuits. Frequency

response, noise analysis in amplifiers. Differential amplifier, OPAMP design and compensation.

Readout circuits, Biasing circuits: BandGap Reference, Voltage Regulators, Charge-pumps,

Introduction to Low-Voltage and Low-Power Circuits. Circuit design with FinFETs, Analog Layout

design.

References:

01. Allen, Phillip E., and Douglas R. Holberg. CMOS analog circuit design. Oxford university press,

1987.

02. B. Razavi, Design of analog CMOS integrated circuits, Mcgraw Higher Ed, 2017

03. Kourosh Kalantar – Zadeh, Benjamin Fry, “Nanotechnology- Enabled Sensors”, Springer

04. R.Jacob Baker,H.W.Li, and D.E. Boyce CMOS Circuit Design ,Layout and Simulation, Prentice-Hall

of ,1998.

05. Journals from IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I & II, Journal of solid state circuits

06. M.-H. Bao, Micromechanical Transducers: Pressure sensors, accelerometers, and gyroscopes by

Elsevier, New York, 2000.

07. Ramon Pallas- Areny, John G. Webster, “Sensors and signal conditioning” John Wiley & Sons,

2001.

08. H. Rosemary Taylor, “Data acquisition for sensor systems”, Chapman & Hall, 1997.

P_Ele 1: Modelling and Design of Advanced Electrical Machines

Reference Frame Theory – Equations of transformation, commonly used reference frames,

variables observed from several frames of reference, transformation between reference

frames. Symmetrical Induction Machines – Voltage and torque equations in machine variables,

equations of transformation for rotor circuits, voltage and torque equation in arbitrary

reference frame variables, commonly used references frames and analysis of steady-state

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operation. Permanent-Magnet AC Machines – Voltage and torque equations in machine

variables, voltage and torque equations in rotor reference frame variables, analysis of steady-

state operation and brushless dc motor. Introduction to design of Electrical Machinery –

Machine geometry, stator windings, winding functions, flux linkage and inductances of various

windings, lumped parameter magnetic equivalent network, design of radial and axial flux

permanent magnet machines, induction motor design, introduction to switched and

synchronous reluctance machines, flux reversal and flux switching machines, thermal and stress

analysis of machines. Induction Motor and PMAC drives – Volts per Hertz Control, Field

oriented control, direct torque control, slip power recovery, voltage source inverter fed PMAC

drives and current regulated inverter fed PMAC drives.

References:

01. Analysis of Electric Machinery and Drive Systems, by Paul Krause, Oleg Wasynczuk,

ScottSudhoff and Steven Pekarek, IEEE Press and Wiley Publications.

02. The Induction Machine Handbook, by Ion Boldea and Syed A. Nasar, CRC Press, Taylor and

Francis Group.

03. Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor Design, by Duane C. Hanselman, Magna Physics

Publishing.

04. Permanent Magnet Motor Technology: Design and Applications, by Jacek F. Gieras, CRC

Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

05. Recent articles in IEEE/IET/Sadhana journals.

P_Ele 2: Power Electronics for Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicle Applications

Photovoltaic inverter structures – Inverter structures from H-Bridge Topology (H5, HERIC, FB-

ZVR), inverter structure from NPC Topology and Three phase PV inverters, international

Regulations for EMC, interconnection of distributed generation, utility interface and anti-

islanding requirements. Grid synchronization in single-phase power converters – using Phase-

Locked Loop, Phase detection based on In-Quadrature signals, second-order adaptive filter

based PLL, second-order generalized integrator based PLL. Grid synchronization in three-phase

power converters – Synchronous reference frame PLL under unbalanced and distorted grid

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conditions and decoupled double synchronous reference frame PLL. Islanding detection – Non-

detection zone, passive islanding detection methods and active islanding detection methods.

Grid converter structures for wind turbine systems – WTS power configurations, single-cell

converters, multi-cell (interleaved or cascaded) converters, generator-side control, doubly-fed

induction generator and PM synchronous generator for wind turbines. Electric and Plug-In

Hybrid EV – Electric, Hybrid Electric and Plug-In Hybrid EV topologies, power electronics for EV

and PHEV charging, vehicle to grid and vehicle to home concepts and power electronics for

more electric aircrafts.

References:

01. Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems, by Remus Teodorescu, Marco

Liserre and Pedro Rodriguez, IEEE Press and Wiley Publications.

02. Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial

Applications, by Haitham Abu-Rub, Mariusz Malinowski and Kamal Al-Haddad, IEEE Press

and Wiley Publications.

P_Ele 3: Electromagnetic Compatibility

Introduction to EMC, EMC requirements for electronic systems, Transmission lines and signal

integrity, Non-ideal behavior of components, Conducted emission and susceptibility, radiated

emission and susceptibility, Shielding, System design for EMC, ESD, Noise reduction techniques

in electronics systems.

References:

01. Clayton R. Paul, “Introduction to electromagnetic compatibility”, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

1991.

02. Ott. H.W. “Noise reduction techniques in Electronic system”, 2nd edition, John Wiley

Interscience, New York (1988).

03. Laszlo Tihanyi, “Electromagnetic Compatibility In Power Electronics”, IEEE Press.

C_Ele 1: Information Theory and Coding

Information Theory: Entropy, mutual information, source coding, channel capacity, Shannon's

noisy coding theorem, differential entropy, Gaussian channel, rate distortion function.

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Coding Theory: Linear block codes: generator and parity check matrices, standard Array and

syndrome Decoding. Convolutional codes: Convolutional encoder representation, decoding of

convolutional codes: maximum likelihood detection, the Viterbi Algorithm.

References:

01. T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, “Elements of Information Theory”, 1/e, John Wiley, 1991.

02. S. Lin and D.J. Costello, Error Control Coding, 2/e, Prentice-Hall, 2004.

03. R. B. Ash, Information Theory, 1/e, Dover Publisher, 1990.

04. Todd K. Moon, Error Control Coding: Mathematical Methods and Algorithms, 1/e, Wiley,

2005.

C_Ele 2: Wireless and Cellular Communication

Cellular concepts (reuse, interference, handoff, cellular capacity), cellular network components

Propagation large scale effects (pathloss, shadowing) Propagation small scale effects

(multipath fading). Delays, Equalization, Diversity, and Channel coding for Fading channels,

interference mitigation techniques. Point to point communication, time diversity, antenna

diversity, frequency diversity, space-time coding, Alamouti scheme, Simulations of a wireless

communications link Multiple access techniques (TDMA, FDMA, OFDM. CDMA), Principles of

CDMA and OFDM Cellular systems and standards (GSM/GPRS,IS95, WCDMA).

References:

01. T. S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications – Principles and Practice” (2nd edition) Pearson,

2010, ISBN 97881317318642.

02. D. Tse and P. Viswanath, "Fundamentals of Wireless Communications," Cambridge Univ

Press, 2005

03. A. Molisch, "Wireless Communications," Wiley, 2005

04. Haykin & Moher, "Modern Wireless Communications" Pearson 2011 (Indian Edition)

05. J. G. Proakis, "Digital Communications," McGraw Hill

06. A. Goldsmith, "Wireless Communications," Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005

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V_Ele 1: Advanced Sensing and Mixed-Signal Circuits

Static characteristic of Sensors: Accuracy, offset and linearity Dynamic characteristics of

Sensors: First and second order sensors. Physical effects involved in signal transduction:

Photoelectric effect, Photo dielectric effect, Photoluminescence effect, Electroluminescence

effect, Hal effect, Thermoelectric effect, Peizoresistive effect, Piezoelectric effect, Pyroelectric

effect, Magnetomechanical effect (magnetostriction), Magneto resistive effect, Comparator,

Basics of Analog to digital converters (ADC), Basics of Digital to analog converters (DAC), DACs,

Nyquist ADCs: Successive approximation ADCs, Dual slope ADCs, High-speed ADCs (e.g. flash

ADC, pipeline ADC and related architectures), Over sampling ADCs (e.g. delta-sigma converters).

References:

01. CMOS Integrated ADCs and DACs by Rudy V. dePlassche, Springer, Indian edition, 2005.

02. CMOS mixed-signal circuit design by R. Jacob Baker, Wiley India, IEEE press, reprint 2008.

03. Ramon Pallas- Areny, John G. Webster, “Sensors and signal conditioning” John Wiley &

Sons, 2001

04. CMOS circuit design, layout and simulation by R. Jacob Baker, Revised second edition, IEEE

press, 2008.

05. Electronic Filter Design Handbook by Arthur B. Williams, McGraw-Hill, 1981.

06. Design of analog CMOS integrated circuits by Behzad Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2003.

07. Design of analog filters by R. Schauman, Prentice-Hall 1990 (or newer additions).

08. An introduction to mixed-signal IC test and measurement by M. Burns et al., Oxford

university press, first Indian edition, 2008.

09. M.-H. Bao, Micromechanical Transducers: Pressure sensors, accelerometers, and

gyroscopes by Elsevier, New York, 2000.

10. H. Rosemary Taylor, “Data acquisition for sensor systems”, Chapman & Hall, 1997.

11. Kourosh Kalantar – Zadeh, Benjamin Fry, “Nanotechnology- Enabled Sensors”, Springer

V_Ele 2: VLSI Design

Review of MOS transistor models, CMOS logic families including static, dynamic and dual rail

logic. Integrated circuit layout; design rules, parasites. Building blocks, ALU"s, Memory and

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sense amplifier, FIFO"s counters, VLSI design: data and control path design, floor planning,

Design Technology: introduction to hardware description languages (VHDL), logic, circuit and

layout verification. Design examples.

References

01. Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan ,Borivoje Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits, Edition 2

02. N. Weste and K. Eshranghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, Addison Wesley, 1985

03. L.Glaser and D. Dobberpuhl, The Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits, Addison WESLey 1985

04. C.MEad and L. Conway, Introduction to VLSI Systems, Addison Wesley, 1979

05. Perry, VHDL, 2nd Ed, McGraw Hill International, 1995.

VC_Ele 1: Circuits and Systems for Communication

Overview of communication systems, Wireless systems, Overview of wireless communication

systems, Design considerations: nonlinearity, noise, sensitivity, dynamic range etc. Review of

modulation techniques, Transceivers: Building blocks such as low noise amplifiers, mixers,

voltage controlled oscillators, phase locked loops, frequency synthesizers, digital synthesis,

power amplifiers etc. Broadband systems: Overview of broadband and optical communication

systems. Transceivers: Building blocks not covered in wireless systems such as broadband

amplifiers, transimpedance amplifiers, clock and data recovery circuits etc. System level

integration, Challenges in board level integration, Interconnects and transmission lines,

Antennas.

References

01. Thomas H. Lee, The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, 2nd edition,

Cambridge University Press

02. Behzad Razavi, RF Microelectronics, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education India

03. Behzad Razavi, Design of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications, 2nd edition, Wiley

India.

04. Selected IEEE journal publications

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Ele 1. Digital Measurement Techniques

Digital measurement of time, period, time constant; digital measurement of frequency (low and

high), programmable circuits (resistors, amplifiers, filters, Schmitt triggers, etc), Digital to

Analog and analog to digital converters, measurement of voltage, sophisticated digital

voltmeter, digital measurement of ratio of two voltages and it applications in measurement of

Q, tan delta, power factor, modulation index, etc., synchronous sampling theory and its

applications in digital measurement of voltage, current, power (active and reactive) power

factor.

References

01. Digital measurement Techniques, Narosa Publishers, Second Edition, 2003 and references

cited therein.

Ele 2. Modern Filter Design

Review of passive filter design, canonical realizations, NDD functions, ladder realizations, active

RC and SC filters, Sensitivity and stability of filters, voltage mode and current mode

transformations, various types of current converters used in filter design, factorial functions

and their design

References

01. R Schumann and M E Van Valkenburg, Design of active filters, Oxford University Press, 2003

02. B. Wilson, Recent developments in current conveyors and current-mode circuits, IEE Proc.,

137, (pt G), 63-77 (1990)

03. T S Rathore and U P Khot, CFA-Based grounded capacitor operational simulation of ladder

filters, Int J Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 36, pp 697-716, 2008