Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE topic:electronics PYQs
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Question 36
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Let
be the transfer function of a second-order system. A controller
is connected to the system
in the configuration shown below.Consider the following statements.
(i) There exists no controller of the form
, where
is a positive real number, such that the closed loop system is stable.(ii) There exists at least one controller of the form
, where
and
are positive real numbers, such that the closed loop system is stable.Which one of the following options is correct?

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Consider the polynomial
. Let
be defined as follows.
is the number of roots of
with negative real parts.
is the number of roots of
that are purely imaginary.
is the number of roots of
with positive real parts.Which one of the following options is correct?
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Consider a continuous-time finite-energy signal
whose Fourier transform vanishes outside the frequency interval
, where
is in rad/sec.The signal
is uniformly sampled to obtain
. Here,
with
being the Dirac impulse,
, and
. The sampled signal
is passed through an ideal low pass filter
with cutoff frequency
and passband gain
.The output of the filter is given by ____________.
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In the circuit below,
is an ideal AC voltmeter and
is an ideal AC ammeter. The source voltage (in Volts) is
.What should be the value of the variable capacitor
such that the RMS readings on
and
are 25 V and 5 A, respectively? 
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The
-parameter matrix of a two port network relates the port voltages and port currents as follows:
The
-parameter matrix (with each entry in Ohms) of the network shown below is ________. 
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A source transmits symbol
that takes values uniformly at random from the set
. The receiver obtains
, where
is a zero-mean Gaussian random variable independent of
. The receiver uses the maximum likelihood decoder to estimate the transmitted symbol
.Suppose the probability of symbol estimation error
is expressed as follows:
where
denotes the probability that
exceeds 1.What is the value of
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Consider a real-valued random process
where
and
is a positive integer. Here,
for
and 0 otherwise. The coefficients
are pairwise independent, zero-mean unit-variance random variables.Read the following statements about the random process and choose the correct option.
(i) The mean of the process
is independent of time
.(ii) The autocorrelation function
is independent of time
for all
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The identical MOSFETs M₁ and M₂ in the circuit given below are ideal and biased in the saturation region. M₁ and M₂ have a transconductance
of 5 mS.The input signals (in Volts) are:
The output signal
(in Volts) is ________. 
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A 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) has a sampling frequency of 1 MHz and a full scale voltage of 3.3 V.
For an input sinusoidal signal with frequency 500 kHz, the maximum SNR (in dB, rounded off to two decimal places) and the data rate (in Mbps) at the output of the ADC are ________, respectively.
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A positive-edge-triggered sequential circuit is shown below. There are no timing violations in the circuit. Input P0 is set to logic ‘0’ and P1 is set to logic ‘1’ at all times. The timing diagram of the inputs SEL and S are also shown below.
The sequence of output Y from time T₀ to T₃ is ________.

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