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VLSI Technology

Classical scaling in CMOS, Moore’s Law, Clean room concept, Material properties, crystal structure, lattice, characterization of material based on band diagram and bonding, conductivity, resistivity, sheet resistance, phase diagram and solid solubility.

Growth of single crystal Si, Wafer Cleaning and etching-Wet etch, Dry etch, Plasma etching, RIE etching, etch selectivity/selective etch, Lithography (Photolithography, EUV lithography, X-ray lithography, e-beam lithography etc.) Next generation technologies: Immersion lithography, Phase shift mask, ion lithography, SCALPEL.

Flight Dynamics and Control

Equations of Motion: rigid body dynamics, coordinate transformation, Euler angle & quaternion formulation – Dynamics of Generic Fixed Wing Aircraft: 6-DoF equations of motion, linearized equations of motion, linearised longitudinal & lateral equations, aerodynamic derivatives – LTI sys- tem basics – Stability of Uncontrolled Motion: linearized longitudinal & lateral dynamics, modes of motion – Response to Control Inputs: transfer function, step response & frequency response charac- teristics – Feedback Control: stability augmentation, PID control, root-locus technique for co

Aerodynamics

Aerodynamic forces and moments – review of governing equations – potential flows – Kutta condition – vortex theorems – thin airfoil theory – finite wing theory – panel methods – flow over delta wings – boundary layer theory – effect of pressure gradient – flow separation and stall – high-lift devices – structure of turbulent boundary layer – Reynolds averaging.

Computer Networks

Introduction to Computer Networks: Network Topology, Layered Protocol Stack, Point-to-point and broadcast communications, LAN, WAN, MAN, and the Internet.

Delay analysis in circuit switching, message switching, and packet switching. Queuing models.

Application Layer Protocols: Domain Name System, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), SMTP/E-mail Applications, Voice over IP, and P2P protocols.

Digital Signal Processing

Discrete time signals and systems, Properties of LTI Systems, DTFT, Z-T/F; Minimum phase-All pass decomposition, Generalized linear phase; DFS, Frequency sampling and Time aliasing, DFT, Periodic & Circular convolutions; FFT computations using DIT and DIF algorithms; Infinite Impulse Response Digital Filter design: Impulse invariant and Bilinear transformation approaches, Finite Impulse Response Digital filter design: Windowing and Optimal Equiv.-ripple filter design; Filter structures and realization: Signal flow graph representation, Direct form I & II, Cascade and Parallel forms,

Probability, Statistics and Numerical Methods

Probability Theory: Elementary concepts on probability – axiomatic definition of probability –conditional probability – Bayes’ theorem – random variables – standard discrete and continuous distributions – moments of random variables – moment generating functions – multivariate randomvariables – joint distributions of random variables – conditional and marginal distributions – conditional expectation – distributions of functions of random variables – t and χ2 distributions – Schwartz and Chebyshev inequalities – weak law of large numbers for finite variance case – central limit theorem for i

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