ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DIFFICULT QUESTION

1.

How many SCRs are required in a series string to withstand a

DC voltage of 3500 volts in steady state, if the SCRS have
steady state voltage rating of 1000V and steady state
derating factor of 30%? Assuming a difference in leakage
current of SCRs to be 10 mA, calculate the value of voltage
sharing resistances to be used.
ANSWER:

2.

It was a term coined in 1971 by circuit theorist Leon

Chua as a missing non-linear passive two-terminal electrical
component relating electric charge and magnetic flux
linkage. It is basically a fourth class of electrical
circuit, joining the resistor, the capacitor, and the
inductor, that exhibit their unique properties primarily at
the nanoscale.
ANSWER:

3.

MEMRISTOR

This type of memory is basically an arrangement of shift

registers. It is used in applications where two systems
communicate at different rates.

ANSWER:

4.

FIFO or FIRST IN FIRST OUT

It is the fastest switching speeds compared to any logic ICs. It

consumes more power than TTL and eliminates the turn-off delay.
Input logic levels are limited to a narrow voltage range to
reduce the large power dissipation resulting from the active
mode. Determine the type of current mode logic family.

ANSWER:

ECL or Emitter Coupled Logic

5.

Find the average drift velocity in a silicon semiconductor doped

with phosphorus. Assume doping density of 1 per million, a
cross-sectional area of 10-4 m2, a current of 4 A, and the
concentration of silicon atoms in a silicon crystal is nsi = 4.96
x 1028 atoms/m3.

ANSWER:

6.

5 m/s

Give the common name for what was later standardized as the IEEE
1149.1 or the Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan
Architecture. It was initially devised for testing printed
circuit boards using boundary scan and is widely used for this
application.

ANSWER:

7.

What net flux crosses the closed surface S which contains a

charge distribution in the form of a plane disk of radius 4m with
a density

s=

ANSWER:

8.

JTAG OT JOINT TEST ACTION GROUP

( sin )2 C
2r
m2

( )

2 C

Find the output voltage

ANSWER:

9.

In the circuit shown below, the outputs Y1 and Y2 for the given
initial condition Y1 = Y2 = 1 and after four input pulses will be

ANSWER:
10.

442 mV

Y1=1, Y2=1

A three-phase half-controlled thyristor converter has an highly

inductive load of 10 ohms, and a supply of 240V at 50Hz.
Determine the value of the power factor for firing angle delay of
a = 30O.

ANSWER:

0.585

11. Determine the frequency of oscillation of a phase shift

oscillator with R1 = R2 = 15 k and C1 = C2 = C3 = 0.001 F.

ANSWER:
12.

4.33 kHz

It is the production of an electromotive force (emf) and

consequently an electric current in a loop of material
consisting of at least two dissimilar conductors when two
junctions are maintained at different temperatures.
ANSWER:

13.

SEEBECK EFFECT

Find E at P(1, 1, 1) caused by four identical 3 nC

point charges located at P1(1, 1, 0), P2(- 1, 1, 0), P3(- 1,

- 1, 0) P4(1, - 1, 0).
ANSWER:

6.82ax + 6.82ay + 32.89az V/m

14. A

three bit pseudo random number generator is shown.

Initially the value of output Y = Y 2 Y1 Y0 is set to 111. The
value of output Y after three clock cycles is

ANSWER:

100