Introduction to C: 'Hello World!' program, Fizz-buzz program, and Fizz-Buzz-Zazz program.

Micro controllers and DSP: Getting started with Code composer studio/ PSoC Creator: Architecture and review of Digital Signal Controllers/ microcontroller (PSoC), Architecture of PSoC-5 LP, PSoC Creator edit and debug modes, blinking of an LED with one second ON, half second OFF

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Vectors: Representation and Dot products, Norms, Matrices: The Four Fundamental Spaces of a Matrix, The Matrix as a Linear Operator, The Geometry associated with matrix operations, Inverses and Generalized Inverses, Matrix factorization/Decompositions, rank of a matrix, Matrix Norms.

Basics of feedback control: History and motivation for feedback; terminologies, Frequency response, Stability concepts, Bandwidth, Transient response, closed loop design specifications w.r.t tracking and disturbance rejection, Sensitivity to parameter variations. Linear Control System Design Techniques: PD, PI and PID controllers, Lead and Lag compensators, Controller design with root locus technique, frequency response technique and state-space technique.

Introduction to Modern Control Theory: Introduction to state‐space versus transform methods in linear systems; internal versus input/output formulation; discrete‐time and continuous‐ time systems; Solution to LTI and LTV systems for homogeneous and non-homogeneous cases. Computation of matrix exponentials using Laplace transforms and Jordan Normal form. Applications of Eigen values and Eigen vectors.

Introduction to Nonlinear systems: Non-linear elements in control systems, overview of analysis methods. Phase plane analysis: Concepts of phase plane analysis, Phase plane analysis of linear and nonlinear systems, Existence of limit cycles. Fundamentals of Liapunov theory: Nonlinear systems and equilibrium points, Concepts of stability, Linearization and local stability, Lyapunov’s direct method, Invariant set theorems, Lyapunov analysis of LTI systems, Krasovskii’s method, Variable gradient method, Physically motivated Lyapunov functions.

Classical scaling in CMOS, Moore’s Law, Clean room concept, Material properties,crystal struc- ture, lattice, Growth of single crystal Si, Cleaning and etching, Thermaloxidation, Dopant diffu- sion in silicon, Deposition & Growth (PVD, CVD, ALD,epitaxy, MBE, ALCVD etc.),Ion-im- plantation, Lithography (Photolithography, EUVlithography, X-ray lithography, e-beam lithog- raphy etc.), Etch and Cleaning, CMOSProcess integration, Back end of line processes (Copper damascene process, Metalinterconnects; Multi-level metallization schemes), Advanced technol- ogies(SOIMOSFETs, Strained Si, Silic

Basics: Control system representations, System stabilities, Coprime factorization and stabilizing controllers, Signals and system norms Modelling of uncertain systems: Unstructured Uncertain- ties, Parametric uncertainty, Linear fractional transformation, Structured uncertainties.

Robust design specifications: Small gain theorem and robust stabilization, Performance con- siderations, Structured singular values.

Design: Mixed sensitivity optimization, 2-Degree of freedom design, Sub-optimal solutions, Formulae for discrete time cases.

Introduction and historical background, Microsensors : Sensors and characteristics, Integrated Smart sensors, Sensor Principles/classification-Physical sensors (Thermal sensors, Electrical Sensors, tactile sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes , Proximity sensors, Angular displacement sensors, Rotational measurement sensors, pressure sensors, Flow sensors, MEMS microphones etc.), Chemical and Biological sensors (chemical sensors, molecule-based biosensors, cell-based biosensors), transduction methods(Optical, Electrostatic, Electromagnetic, Capacitive, Piezoelectric, piezoresistive etc.), Mic

Soft switching Converters: Switching loss, basic principles of hard and soft switching.

Evolution of resonant converter topologies. Resonant Load Converters: analysis of series, parallel, LCC and LLC topologies. Resonant Switch Converters (quasi resonant). Resonant Transition Converters- phase modulated topologies, Soft Switched low power high frequency converters
with Auxiliary Switch. Emerging trends in low power high frequency soft switched converters.