Whats

Inside?

From HODs Desk

Utilizing the wind energy

An epistle from HOD: the set of

skills that will be imperative for
engineers of tomorrow

The windmills that

Recharge your cellphone

The Crux of EC department

E-Textiles

The department and its main

modules at a glance

The concept of smart and

intelligent clothing

Quanta-Exploring imaginations
The departments official
society-its missions and
visions

Circuit Simulators

Reminiscing memories with KHNV Lakshmi

I had the confidence that I would
do justice to the profession and
started teaching

Circuit simulators that every

engineer must know

The smart Bulb

A new kind of LED light bulbs
could help to ease those peaky
transitions between night and
day

Techno-Fun

Digitalizing India

CROSSWORD

The government directs its top

between night and day
guns towards digitalising the
nation.

Try it yourself
A lie detector
DIY module.

In conversation

The bionic Man !

He walks, he talks and he has a
beating heart, but he's not
human

An exchange with Gaurav

Srivastava.

Technology focus: Age of 3-D integration

Zooming in the new age of
integration :The 3D integration....

About Us
The Editor-in-chief
Prof. Dinesh Chandra
(Head of the Department)

Editor
Mrs. Chhaya Grover
(Associate Professor)

Editorial Team
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Utkarsh Kant (4 year)

Siddhartha Agarwal (3rd year)
Anshita Agarwal (3rd year)

Designing Team
Shashank Raj(4th year)
Divyanshi Rastogi(3rd year)
Sparshi Jain(3rd year)

From HODs Desk

Last two decades have been very significant as far
as the impact of technology on society is
concerned. Ability to send information of any
type, anywhere, and anytime has altered the way
societies live and transact their businesses, be it
education, production of goods, selling of goods,
entertainment, information transaction between
individuals, individual to masses, health care,
governance etc. Every aspect of social order is
getting affected, this is only the beginning of
changes in a technology driven society. What
technology holds for the society is any ones
guess? Some of the scientists and thinkers have
tried to predict what science and technology holds
for us, say by 2030. Michio Kaku (Great Physicist
of our time) expresses in his book Physics of the
Future and video lecture The world in 2030
(You Tube), a glimpse of technology driven
society and our role in it. This is just decade and
half away.
To stay relevant as an engineer, or as a
technologist, or as a scientist in tomorrows
society is not going to be easy for any student.
Therefore, effective utilisation of four years for
any student in the institute has become very
crucial. One can choose to improve upon their
class room participation by doing following:

Asking questions.
Studying together.
Not blaming your Professor.
Being prepared to work hard but know your
limits.
Getting involved with the work.
Taking notes. (Do not use electronic devices)
Taking pride in your work.
Not underestimating yourself.

When in doubt, draw the blocks

connect them logically and see if
system works.
Get enough physical exercise,
health is real wealth.

Above will help you in grooming

yourself with the set of skills that will
be imperative for engineers of
tomorrow.
I welcome all undergraduate and
postgraduate students who have
joined the department during currant
academic year. I hope they value their
time and utilise departmental facilities
optimally. Department has also
submitted
application
for
accreditation of its undergraduate
program to NBA. NBA team is likely to
visit the department during the first
half of the next semester. The focus of
assessment will be outcome based
education (OBE). A buzz world for
tomorrows engineering education in
India. Our country has also become a
full member of Washington Accord.
Lets have good time during the
semester. Good luck and Bye.

Management Team
CRUX OF EC DEPARTMENT
Anisha Srivastava (4th year)
Akshay Kumar (3rd year)
Aayush Singhal (3rd year)

CONTACT US
Email:
electrobytes.ec.jssaten14@gmail.com
https://m.facebook.com/eelectrobytee

The EC department follows a modular approach and comprises of four modules as seen below:

Quanta Exploring Imaginations..

Quanta the official technical society of our college established in 2000 with a motto to develop theoretical
cum practical knowledge that enhances a persons command over different domains of electronics including
embedded systems, robotics ,VLSI ,simulation. It seeks to ignite the spark of electronics in every student who
belongs to this field and gives the exposure to move on. More than 75 workshops have been conducted since
then proving it to be a constant facilitator in scientific and technical education of students. Adding to the array
was the workshop on advanced embedded system conducted last month which lasted for 3 days. More than
70 students participated making a total of 18 LFRs.
QUANTA has a young and dynamic team with a passion for electronics, trying to prove its existence above all
other similar societies .Its members have made the college proud by winning accolades in competitions such
as TIIC ,Intel Innovation Challenge and various techfest .Recently it has recruited 20 more very passionate
enthusiast from all branches of 1st year B.tech. And this quest of excellence continues...
Anshita Agarwal,3rd year

Interviewer: How does it feel when you look back upon the time that you spent in JSS?
KHNV Lakshmi: It feels great that I had served JSS for such a long time. I feel very
sad that I had to leave JSS.
Interviewer: How did you choose to be a teacher?
KHNV Lakshmi: I suppose its in my blood. I did not opt for teaching as my first job as I
believed that one needs to have practical exposure to be a good teacher. After working
in the industry for about 9yrs, I had the confidence that I would do justice to the
profession and hence started teaching.

Reminiscing
Memories with
Prof.KHNV
Lakshmi..
The Department bid
farewell to one of its most
promising professors on
12th May 2014.Here are
some excerpts from the
interview by Siddhartha
Agarwal, wherein she
shares some of her
profound memories.

Interviewer: If not JSS, where would you have been?

KHNV Laksmi: If not JSS, may be I would have not been a teacher, but an R & D
engineer in any of the core electronics company or in corporate training. Since, the
environment at JSS was too good which no other college in NCR had provided I
chose to enter this profession.

Interviewer: What do you miss the most about JSS?

KHNV Lakshmi: Teaching has always been a passion for me. So, I miss my students
the most. Of course the wonderful ECE department, my colleagues and HOD who was
always willing to guide the students and the faculty.
Interviewer: A few notable words to students.
KHNV Lakshmi:Education means overall personality development with human values
and ethics not only degrees.
So one should study to gain knowledge, not for marks or degrees. Once you gain
knowledge you will earn degrees automatically.

The key to success is sincerity and discipline. Its al about competing with
yourself so do not compete with others compete with yourself and never get
disheartened by your failures.

Do not let your success go above your head. The more you learn the more
humble you are and cultivate the habit of lifelong learning. The best teacher is
the nature and your experience.

I believe a good student makes a good teacher.

Interviewed by-Siddhartha Agarwal

SMART BULB HELPS YOU SLEEP AND

WAKE ON SCHEDULE

DIGITALIZING INDIA THROUGH

MODI WAVE

Waking up is hard to do. But a new kind of LED light bulbs could help to
ease those peaky transitions between night and day by coaxing
cooperation out of your melatonin levels. Melatonin is the hormone in
charge of making you feel sleepy , and your levels go up and down on a
24 hours cycle each day. When you wake up bright eyed and bushy
tailed, your melatonin levels tend to be low. But as the day gets longer
and the sun starts to go down, the hormone production will ramp up
again.
LED TO THE RESCUE:
The problem is if you are a graduate student, or you work the night
shift, or your bed happens to be on the International Space Station
(where the sun rises every 90 minutes),you dont have the luxury of
going to the bed when the sun goes down. Luckily, a company called
Lighting Science has an app for that.
Their smart bulb, called Rhythm Downlight ,works like this, as per the
popular science:You program your desired sleep schedule in the app,
which syncs up with the specially designed digital LED light bulb. When
its time to ramp up for your next shift ,the bulb will emit more light in
the blue spectrum ,which shuts down melatonin production ,helping
you to feel awake .But when its time to crash ,the blue light is no more,
allowing you to drift off. At this point the company produces a pro-wake
bulb and a pro sleep version. The rhythm Downlight version ,which
aims to alternate between the two, is due for release this summers.
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Somya Mogha ,3 year

THE BIONIC MAN!

No! Its not a snap from some

science fiction movie. Its REX, worlds first bionic man. While
scientists have built many artificial organs individually, they have
never before been put together to create an entire human body. Rex
or as he has recently been renamed Frank (after Frankenstein), the
world's first fully functional bionic man has just changed that. Rex
who was first unveiled at London's Science Museum in February of
this year is now on display at the National Air And Space Museum in
Washington D.C., the human clone was assembled in three short
months using state-of-the-art organs that were donated by 17
manufacturers - A good thing given that the total cost came to about
$1 million USD!
The dapper bionic man whose face is modeled after University of
Zurich psychologist Bertoit Meyer who led the project, is six and half
feet tall, weighs 170lbs and can sit, stand and walk with the help of
an exoskeleton.
While the exterior is certainly interesting, it is as they say what's on
the inside, that matters - And in Rex's case there is plenty

In this era of instant coffee, where the word is moving from

snailmail to hotmail, the government has directed its top
guns towards, the digitalising the nation. The Modi
Government has taken up the half baked plans and worked
upon them to expunge the economic woes of the nation.
The economy which was crawling at its slowest pace is
expected to experience a meteoric rise in development with
digitalisation of the country. The recent biggest step
observed in this direction is the partnership of Modi
Government with Google India to increase the access to
internet by working upon development of Non-English
Internet user base. This shall be a step towards increasing
employability as well. The increase in smart gadgets such as
smart phones, smart watches etc. have sparked a wave of
innovation that has brought new services to millions and
efficiencies to business of every type. To accelerate Digital
India Programme, introduction of E-visa Technology ,
Modernisation of railway using technology, building of
virtual schools are planned to be implemented by
December 2014.A revamp of Indian Railways will introduce
new features such as Wi-Fi services on trains, next
generation e-ticketing systems, GIS mapping and
digitalisation of records. The prime step introduced in the
budget to increase FOI in the telecom sectors has proved
boon in the prosper of digitalisation program. Due to import
duty levied on certain telecom service,it presents an
opportunity to foreign companies to invest in Indian startups .The pace of movement being undertaken by
government in still an optimistic mind-set among analysts
regarding the economic growth. A leverage in IT and
telecom sector growth is expected in coming years.
According to the words of Rajan Anandan, MD of the
Internet Giants Indian division, India is where China had
been in 2006 or 2007.This can imbibe a positive feeling
that the nation is on the headway and shall complete its
journey of progress to be among the world beaters soon.

Trisha Sawhney,3rd year

Starting from most technologically advanced robotic
limbs to a functioning heart that pumps oxygen and
artificial blood around his body. He also has a lung,
kidney, spleen and even a pancreas. A retinal implant
allows the bionic man to sense objects found him, while

around him, while a cochlear insert enables him to hear.

All in all, Rex aka Frank has about 60-70 percent functionality of a
normal human. He is still missing some key parts like a digestive
system, liver, skin and most importantly, a brain!
According to Richard Walker, the lead roboticist at London-based
Shadow Robot Company responsible for creating the bionic man, Rex
was assembled to showcase the advances in aesthetic prostheses for
people that have lost their limbs or part of their face and maybe even
an organ. Having said that, while the organs worked well on Rex some
like the kidney, are still in early trial phase and not ready to be used on
humans yet.
Utkarsh Kant,4th year

AGE OF 3-D INTEGRATION

Xilinx All Programmable 3D ICs utilize stacked silicon interconnect (SSI) technology to break
through the limitations of Moores law and deliver the capabilities to satisfy the most demanding
design requirements. Xilinx homogeneous and heterogeneous 3D ICs deliver the highest logic
density, bandwidth, and on-chip resources in the industry, breaking new ground in system-level
integration.

1st Generation All Programmable 3D ICs: Xilinx 28nm homogeneous and heterogeneous 3D
ICs double the design capacity, system level performance, and level of systems integration relative
to what was possible with a pure monolithic solutioncreating an extra generation of value and
offering the manufacturing and time-to-volume advantages of smaller die.

2nd Generation All Programmable

3D ICs
Xilinx UltraScaleTM 3D ICs provide
unprecedented levels of system
integration,
performance
and
capability. Both Virtex UltraScale 3D
ICs and Kintex UltraScale 3D ICs
contain a step-function increase in both
the amount of connectivity resources
and the associated inter-die bandwidth
in this second-generation 3D IC
architecture. There are ten 3D IC
devices in Xilinxs Virtex-7, Kintex
UltraScale
and and
Virtex Virtex
UltraScale
families thereby offering customers
UltraScale
UltraScale
afamilies
broad range
of resources and capabilities to match leading edge
thereby
demands. The SSI-enabled devices shown below offer unprecedented
FPGA capabilities and are ideal for applications such as nextgeneration wired communications, high-performance computing,
medical image processing,and ASIC prototyping/emulation.

Xilinx 3D IC
Devicesthan
Utilizing
Stacked
Enabling
More
MooreSystem
Scaling: To address

Silicon
the
typical challenges of interconnecting multiple FPGAs, Xilinx 3D IC
devices utilize Stacked Silicon Interconnect technology, enabling highbandwidth connectivity between multiple die and providing a 100x

improvement
in inter-die bandwidth
Interconnect Technology

improvement in interdie bandwidth per

watt compared to
multi-chip
approaches. It also
imposes much lower
latency and consumes
dramatically
lower
power than either the
multi-FPGA or multichip
module
approach,
while
enabling the
integration of transceivers and on-chip resources within a single
package. SSI technology leverages proven
microbump
of vias
technology combined with coarse pitchintegration
through-silicon
(TSVs) on a passive (no transistors) 65nmtransceivers
silicon interposer
to
and ondeliver high reliability interconnect without
performance
chip resources
degradation on one FPGA device. This breakthrough technology
provides the next level of advanced system integration for
applications that require high logic density and tremendous
within a single
computational performance.

package. SSI
technology
leverages

BENEFITS
Footprint:
More functionality fits into a small space. This extends Moore's
law and enables a new generation of tiny but powerful devices.
Cost:
Partitioning a large chip into multiple smaller dies with 3D
stacking can improve the yield and reduce the fabrication cost if
individual dies are tested separately.
Heterogeneous integration:
Circuit layers can be built with different processes, or even on
different types of wafers. This means that components can be
optimized to a much greater degree than if they were built
together on a single wafer. Moreover, components with
incompatible manufacturing could be combined in a single 3D IC.
Shorter interconnect:
The average wire length is reduced. Given that 3D wires have
much higher capacitance than conventional in-die wires, circuit
delay may or may not improve.
Power:
Keeping a signal on-chip can reduce its power consumption by
10100 times. Reducing the power budget leads to less heat
generation, extended battery life, and lower cost of operation.

CHALLENGES
Yield:
Each extra manufacturing step adds a risk for defects. In order for 3D
ICs to be commercially viable, defects could be repaired or tolerated,
or defect density can be improved.
Heat:
Heat building up within the stack must be dissipated. This is an
inevitable issue as electrical proximity correlates with thermal
proximity. Specific thermal hotspots must be more carefully managed.
Testing:
To achieve high overall yield and reduce costs, separate testing of
independent dies is essential. However, tight integration between
adjacent active layers in 3D ICs entails a significant amount of
interconnect between different sections of the same circuit module
that were partitioned to different dies.
Lack of standards:
There are few standards for TSV-based 3D-IC design manufacturing,
and packaging. Heterogeneous integration supply
chain
heterogeneously integrated systems, the delay of one part from one of
the different parts suppliers delays the delivery of the whole product,
and so delays the revenue for each of the 3D-IC part suppliers.
rd
Siddhartha Agarwal,3 year

MICRO-WINDMILLS TO RECHARGE PHONES

A UT Arlington research associate and electrical engineering
professor have designed a micro-windmill that generates
wind energy and may become an innovative solution to cell
phone batteries constantly in need of recharging and home
energy generation where large windmills are not preferred.
Smitha Rao and J.-C. Chiao designed and built the device that
is about 1.8 mm at its widest point. A single grain of rice could
hold about 10 of these tiny windmills. Hundreds of the
windmills could be embedded in a sleeve for a cell phone.
Wind, created by waving the cell phone in air or holding it up
to an open window on a windy day, would generate the
electricity that could be collected by the cell phone's battery.
Rao's designs blend origami concepts into conventional waferscale semiconductor device layouts so complex 3-D moveable
moveable mechanical
mechanical structures can be self-assembled
from twostructures can be selfdimensional metal
assembled from twodimensional
metal
pieces utilizing planar multilayer electroplating
techniques.
pieces utilizing planar
multilayer
electroplating
techniques.
techniques. WinMEMS became interested
in the microelectro mechanical system research and started a relationship
with UT Arlington. An agreement has been established for UT
Arlington to hold the intellectual properties while WinMEMS
explores the commercialization opportunities. UT Arlington
has applied for a provisional patent. Currently , WinMEMS has
been showcasing UT Arlington's works on its website and in
public presentations, which include the micro-windmills,
gears, inductors, pop-up switches and grippers. All of those
parts are as tiny as a fraction of the diameter of a human hair.

parts are as tiny as a fraction of the diameter of a human hair.

These inventions are essential to build micro-robots that can
be used as surgical tools, sensing machines to explore disaster
zones or manufacturing tools to assemble micro-machines.
The micro-windmills can be made in an array using the batch
processes. The fabrication cost of making one device is the
same as making hundreds or thousands on a single wafer,
which enables for mass production of very inexpensive
systems. "Imagine that they can be cheaply made on the
surfaces of portable electronics," Chiao said, "so you can
place them on a sleeve for your smart phone. When the
phone is out of battery power, all you need to do is to put on
the sleeve, wave the phone in the air for a few minutes and
you can use the phone again."Chiao said because of the small
sizes, flat panels with thousand of windmills could be made
and mounted on the walls of houses or building to harvest
energy for lighting, security or environmental sensing and
wireless communication.
Pragya Newatia ,3rd year

E-TEXTILES
E-textile referred to as intelligent clothing or smart clothing
that allow for the incorporation of built-in technological
elements in everyday textiles and clothes. While not part of
the mainstream form of fashion, its popularity is increasing
and more research is being devoted to it. Smart fabrics are
ones which can change/react automatically to their
surroundings. Smart fabrics (- or intelligent textiles) are
being developed to be able to sense what is happening to
the wearer or its immediate surroundings.
In particular, integrating sensors and computational devices
into fabrics will enable the fabrics to provide a much richer
set of capabilities than is currently possible. These electronic
textiles (e-textiles) will allow us to build smart garments, as
well as home and office furnishings that look and feel like
their everyday counterparts while being able to sense our

SIMULATORS EVERY ELECTRONICS

ENGINEER MUST KNOW!
MATLAB: MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a multi-paradigm
numerical computing environment and fourth-generation
programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB
allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data,
implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces,
and interfacing with programs written in other languages,
including C, C++, Java, and Fortran.It contains various
toolboxes and the complete knowledge of this is next to
impossible, its being widely used in signal processing,
bioinformatics and defence purposes .

presence, monitor our health, and dynamically adapt to our

CircuitLab:
individual needs.
presence, monitor our health, and dynamically adapt to our
individual needs. The field of e-textiles can be divided into
two main categories:
The field of e-textiles can be divided into two main
1) the first category involves mounting classical electronic
devices such as conducting wires, ICs, LEDs and conventional
batteries
into garments.
categories:
2) The second category involves creating electronic function
directly on the textile fibres . These functions can either be
passive such as pure wires, conducting textile fibres, or more
1) the first category involves mounting classical electronic
advanced functions such as transistors, diodes and solar
cells. The field of embedding advanced electronic
components onto textile fibres is sometimes referred to as
devices
such as conducting wires, ICs, LEDs and conventional
fibertronics.
Uses of conductive fibers and textiles include static
dissipation, EMI shielding, signal and power transfer in low
batteries
garments.
resistanceinto
versions,
and as a heating element in higher
resistance versions. Their benefits over solid or stranded
metal wires come from conductive fibers flexibility and
ability
use incategory
existing involves
textile machinery.
2) The to
second
creating electronic function
There is a wide range of applications for E-textiles like
Technical outdoor apparel (Trekking, mountaineering,
special task force etc.), Fire Brigade, metal casting
directly on the textile fibers. These functions can either be
industry,Commercial food-processing protection, Industrial
safety and protection.
The growth is attributed to the concerted industrys effort
passive
such as self-powered
pure wires, conducting
textileand
fibers,
on
developing
smart textiles
alsoortomore
the
improvement in energy harvesting mechanism in the coming
years. Smart textiles is poised to witness staggering growth
rd
in the coming
years.such as transistors,
Pujya pandey,3
advanced
functions
diodes andyear
solar

Effortless and easy simulation software so as to provide

lab like environment to the users, akin to Labview its
comparatively new and unpopular.

PSPICE :SPICE (Simulated Program with Integrated Circuit

Emphasis) is a general purpose software that simulates
different circuits and can perform various analysis of electrical
and electronic circuits including time domain response, small
signal frequency response, total power dissipation,
determination of nodal voltages and branch current in a
circuit, transient analysis, determination of operating point of
transistors, determinations of transfer functions etc. This
software is designed in such a way so that it can simulate
different circuit operations involving transistors, operational
amplifiers (op amp) etc. and contains models for circuit
elements (passive as well as active).In PSpice, the statements
are self contained and independent; obviously they do not
interact with each other. The statements are also easy to
learn and use. PSpice is a part of larger software package
called the Design Lab, originally developed by MicroSim
Corporation as the Design Centre. It is now marketed by Or
CAD.

 IntSim: IntSim is an open-source CAD tool to simulate 2D

and 3D-ICs

Proteus : Proteus is a Virtual System Modelling and

circuit simulation application. The suite combines mixed
mode SPICE circuit simulation, animated components and
microprocessor models to facilitate co-simulation of
complete microcontroller based designs. Proteus also has
the ability to simulate the interaction between software
running on a microcontroller and any analog or digital
electronics connected to it. It simulates Input / Output
ports, interrupts, timers, USARTs and all other peripherals
present on each supported processor.

Xilinx: Xilinx ISE (Integrated Software Environment) is a

software tool produced by Xilinx for synthesis and analysis
of HDLdesigns, enabling the developer to synthesize
("compile") their designs, perform timing analysis,
examine RTL diagrams,simulate a design's reaction to
different stimuli, and configure the target device with the
programmer.

Siddhartha Agarwal,3rd year

TECHNO-FUN
Solve the following Puzzle:
Your company is pretty tight on the budget this year and it
happens to have only Muxes to design with. You are required to
design a circuit equivalent to the one below, using minimum no.
of muxes.

CLUES:
DOWN

ACROSS

1)Next after Gigahertz

4)%Modulation AKA
Modulation
6)Zero Vector
7)Opposite of Amplifier
8)Similar to a LASER(operates
with microwave frequencies)
10)dB
13)James Clerk___(think
coffee)

2)Multiple antenna arranged in

an___
3)Spread Spectrum AKA
Frequency_____
5)Diode like the Channel
8)_____waveguide(metric)
11)___plot=imaginary vs. real
frequency
9)____plot=magnitude vs.phase
12) the inverse of impedance

Word Search

TRY IT YOURSELF!

VOCABULARY MADE EASY

Lie detector is to ascertain whether the person is telling truth or

false. It is also referred as deception detector which uses
questioning techniques along with technology that record
physiological functions. It is commonly used by law enforcement.
Components required to make this project are as follows:
Circuit board, Resistors (10k, 47k, 470,1M) ohms, 47K ohms Variable
resistor, three 2N3904 transistors, 100nf capacitor, slide switch, 9V
battery, LED (one red, one green), soldering tools, drill, basic tools,
Velcro, aluminium foil. The circuit diagram of the Lie Detector is
shown in fig. It consists of three transistors (TR1 to TR3), a capacitor
(C1), two lights or LEDs L1 & L2), five resistors (R1 to R5), and a
variable resistor (VR1). This circuit is based on the fact that a
person's skin resistance changes when they sweat (sweating
because they're lying). Dry skin has a resistance of about 1 million
ohms, whereas the resistance of moist skin is reduced by a factor of
ten or more. Resistors R1 and R2 form a voltage divider. They have
resistances of 1M ohms, as their values are equal, the voltage at the
upper probe wire is half of the battery voltage (about 4.5 volts).A
person holding the probe wires will change the voltage at the upper
probe wire depending on their skin resistance. The skin resistance is
in parallel with R2 and, because it is likely to be similar to or smaller
than R2, the voltage at the probe wire will fall as skin resistance
falls. Capacitor C1 functions as a smoothing capacitor and removes
the 50Hz induced mains hum that is found on a person's body.
TR1 and R3 form a buffer circuit (called an emitter-follower). The
voltage at the emitter of TR1 follows the voltage at the probe wire
and is now able to drive transistor TR2. Transistors TR1 and TR2 act
as a voltage comparator. If the voltage at the base of TR2 is higher
than at the base of TR3 then the green LED (L1) will come on. If the
reverse is true then the red LED (L2) will light. To test the Lie
Detector hold the probe wires. Adjust VR1 until the green LED is just
on and the red LED is just off. This is the point at which the voltage
at the base of TR2 is just greater than at the base of TR3. Now use
moist fingers to hold the probes. This lowers the skin resistance and
causes the voltage at the base of TR2 to fall. The voltage at the base
of TR3 is now greater and the red LED comes on.

Dear readers, it is a well-known fact that, in whichever field you are,

having a good vocabulary can take you places. It not only makes a strong
impression on others but also opens a world of opportunities that never
even existed before.
Also in many of competitive examinations like GATE, CAT, XAT etc. and
the written examinations of company placement drives, vocabulary is a
separate section of the test. Scoring well in this section increases your
chances of selection by many folds.
Keeping this in mind, we will provide you with 5 difficult words in each
issue. These words are provided with a detailed description, which
includes its pronunciation, type of the word (verb, noun or adjective), its
meaning and usage (synonyms and antonyms will also be provided
wherever possible).
The pronunciation will be given just next to the word, where it will be
broken into its syllables. Some of them will be in lowercase and others in
uppercase. The parts of the word in lowercase are to be pronounced
softly, and ones in uppercase are to be pronounced strongly. Here goes!
1. ABDICATE (Ab duh KATE)
Type: Verb.
Meaning: To give up a right, to step down from a position of power or
responsibility.
Usage: When King Edward VIII of England decided he would rather be
married to Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee, than be king
of England, he turned in his crown and abdicated.
Mary abdicated her responsibility as a baby-sitter by locking the fiveyear-old in a closet and flying to the Bahamas.
Synonym(s): Forgo, abjure, resign.
Antonym(s): Keep, maintain, pursue.
2. CATHARSIS (kuh THAR sis)
Type: Noun.
Meaning: Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal.
Usage: To someone with psychological problems, talking to a psychiatrist
can lead to catharsis.
Synonym(s): Ablution, cleansing, purgation.
Antonym(s): Dirtying.
3. DELETERIOUS (DEL i TEER ee us)
Type: Adjective.
Meaning: Harmful, damaging.
Usage: Smoking cigarettes is deleterious for your health.
Synonym(s): Detrimental, destroying, ruining.
Antonym(s): Aiding, helpful, assisting.
4. INUNDATE (IN un DATE)
Type: Verb.
Meaning: To flood.
Usage: The tiny island kingdom was inundated by the tidal wave.
Synonym(s): Deluge, overflow, immerse, engulf.
Antonym(s): Underwhelm.
5. SUCCINT (suk SINGKT)
Type: Adjective.
Meaning: Brief and to the point.
Usage: Harrys succinct explanation on why the moon doesnt fall out of
sky and crash into the earth quickly satisfied even the dullest of the
anxious investment.
Synonym(s): Blunt, cut to the bone, compact.
Antonym(s): Lengthy, polite, wordy.

Steps:
1)

Make a finger pads by sticking an aluminium foil to the

Velcro and don't forget to stick a wire between the Velcro
and thin foil.

2) Soldering the circuit

3) Drill a tin box.
4) Place the circuit in it.
5) Done.

IN CONVERSATION WITH GAURAV SRIVASTAVA

Interviewer: How did you come across Texas Instruments Innovation
Challenge (TIIC)? Was it totally unexpected or well planned?
Gaurav: As I said, everything is happening unintentionally. The group
with which I worked, I met them only a few months before the
abstract submission date. It was only a little sprout of an idea that
had been flourishing in our minds "ki yaar kuch bada karna h (that
we have to make it big)", but never did we expect that it would
happen. Seeing our past success rate, anybody couldve said that
odds were stacked against us. When we submitted the final video in
February, we were totally sure that we would fail, moreover we also
started disassembling our project and started working on another
one. But surprises were waiting for us, never couldve we guessed
what the future had in store for us. But surprises were waiting for us,
never couldve we guessed what the future had in store for us.

Interviewer: If not engineering what would be the other field that

you would have gone for?
Gaurav: I never had the confusion as to which field I should opt
for. But apart from that, I love dancing. I do it whenever Im free. I
would have tried pursuing it if not engineering.
Interviewer: What has been that one lesson youll never forget,
that your college life has taught you?
Gaurav: Frankly speaking, apart from the college itself, college life
has taught me a lot, and Im still learning. How to make friends,
which ones will actually help you, and which ones are just there
for your glory. How to set your priorities. Before entering this
college, I was the average boring guy, but soon after there has
been an exponential change in my personality and attitude .I
believe every day is a new day and I find myself challenging my
own beliefs and overcoming them. Being a budding engineer gives
me a lot of responsibilities towards everything and especially
everyone, and I try my best to carry them out.
Interviewer: How has life changed post TIIC?
Gaurav: I dont know why everyone asks me this question. It isn't
a very great achievement. Things were the same before TI as they
are now and they will remain the same ever. But yes, now people
around me have started showing some faith in me. The
department itself is one such example. Now at least people know
that Im not simply fantasising. If I say I can design this, it simply
means "I can".
Interviewer: What is the ultimate goal of your life?
Gaurav: I want to become a scientist and contribute, in the
technical field.

Interviewer: A life event that was inadvertent, but you still lure for
that moment?
Gaurav: Honestly, everything is happening inadvertently with me
since I took admission in JSS. I remember my last year's trip to
Rishikesh, I mean who bunks their sessionals just to experience the
thrill of an adventure. I really wish I could witness it once again.

Interviewer: What has been your most memorable moment till

date?
Gaurav: Well, there have been many. But the best thing that
happened in these years was my friends. They always supported me
unconditionally through my thicks and thins. You know, its very
difficult to find a person with the same mental disorders as yours,
but Im lucky to have six, Shubham, Rishu, Shikhar, Sujit, Eshant and
of course Ajeetesh. You guys are the best part of my college life.

Interviewer: What would be your advice for juniors?

Gaurav: Never get disappointed in your life and never regret the
decisions that youve made. Many of you had once dreamt of
getting admission in IITs but unfortunately that didnt happen. But
that wasnt the end of your engineering dream. Motivate yourself
and challenge yourself every day, compete with yourself. And no
matter what others think of you, just try hard to achieve your
dream. Don't give yourself a chance to regret that once you had
time but you did nothing. At least you should be satisfied that you
did something.

Interviewed by- Anshita Agarwal

CHECK YOUR QUANTABILITY

Friends as you know, the first step towards getting a job
almost anywhere is to clear an aptitude examination. The
major section of these aptitude examinations is
quantitative ability. It becomes imperative that we clear
this part of the examination, and only then we are allowed
to sit in the further rounds, be it group discussion or the
interviews.
So in this section, we bring you some of the selected
questions from the quantitative aptitude section. We hope
that these questions not only serve you as a guide but also
develop your interest in this field.
Remember, practice is a key.
Q1. Two numbers are in the ratio of 15 : 11. If their HCF is
13, find the two numbers from the options given below.
(a) 195, 143 (b) 195, 150 (c) 143, 195 (d) 200, 145

(a) 4300 (b) 2450 (c) 3400 (d) 5000

Q3. Moving at

of its usual speed, a train is 10 minutes

too late. Find its usual time to cover the journey. Select the
right answer from the options given below.
(a) 45 min (b) 72 min (c) 40 min (d) 50 min
Q4. Ramans salary was decreased by 50% and
subsequently increased by 50%. How much percent does
he lose?
(a) 25%

(b) 30% (c) 35% (d) 40%

Q5. Find the odd one out from the given series.
56, 72, 90, 110, 132, 150.
(a) 56

Q2. A man spends of his salary on house rent, 3/10 of his

salary on food and 1/8 on conveyance, if he has rs.1400 left
with him ,what is his expenditure on food and conveyance?

(b) 90

(c) 132 (d) 150

*The solutions to the puzzles will be uploaded on our Facebook page

(a) 4300 (b) 2450 (c) 3400 (d) 5000

ANSWERS:

A1. (a)

A2. (c)

A3. (d)

A4. (a)

A5. (d)

EVENTS AT A GLANCE
Distribution Variation using AWAS electromagnetic

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

code for WiMAX" held in New Delhi in May 2014.

1.

Mr. Anuranjan Kansal(Asst. Professor), Ms. Rachna Jain

(Asst.Professor), Mrs.Ruchi Paliwal (Asst. Professor)
attended two weeks faculty development Program on
Computer programming at MGM Noida.

2.

Mr. Prasad M. (Asst. Professor), Ms. Gayatri Sakya (Asst.

Professor)attended a workshop on "Intel Embedded
Systems" at UPTU Noida Campus from 2nd-4th June 2014.

3.

Summer workshop on MATLAB and LABVIEW was

organized by ECE and IC

2.

Dr. Vikas Baghel has been awarded Ph.D. degree

from IIT Bhuveneshwar.

3.

Dr. Chhaya Dalela (Assoc. Professor) attend the

international conference on Engineering and Technology
(ICEAT 2014) on " Path loss Analysis using AWAS
Electromagnetic code for WiMAX at 2300 Mhz" held in
Roorkee in May 2014.

4.

Mr. Shivaji Sinha (Asst. Professor) was member of

technical review committee of Techno Forum
Group, Australia(International Conference on Cloud
Computng and e-Governance 2015).

5.

Mr. Shivaji Sinha (Asst. Professor) was member of

Technical Review Committee of International
Journal of Engineering Technology and
Management and applied Sciences (ISSn No.: 23494476).

6.

Mr. Shivaji Sinha (Asst. Professor) was member of

Institute of Computer Science Informatics and
Telecommunication Engineering (ICST),Belgium.

SEMINARS
1.
..

department
for the Technical staff from 17thA departmental seminar by Eigen Technologies team on
20th JuneTCAD
2014.Demonstration" was held on June 16,
"Sypnosis
2014.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENT

1.

Dr. Chhaya Dalela (Assoc. Professor) attended the third

international
conference
on
Networks
and
Communications (NECO 2014) on " Analysis on Near Field
Distribution Variation using AWAS electromagnetic

WORKSHOPS

1.

Ms. Amanpreet Kaur (Asst. Professor) attended two

week ISTE workshop organized by IIT,Bomabay
under NMEICT on "Cyber Security" from 10th-20th
July 2014.

2.

Ms. Gayatri Sakya (Asst. Professor) and Mr. Prasad

M(Ass. Professor) attended two day workshop on
"Embedded Systems and Robotics" conducted by IIT
Bombay on e-Yantra through NMEICT at MGM
Noida on 4th-5th August 2014.

3.

Ms. Chhaya Grover (Assoc. Professor), Dr. Chhaya

Dalela (Assoc.Professor) and Ms. Sangeetha
Mangesh (Asst. Professor) attended one day IEEE
Authorship Workshop at IIT Delhi on 11th August
2014.

2.

3.

Ms. Gayatri Sakya (Asst. Professor) presented

paper on "Behavioural modelling and VHDL
Simulation of all Digital Phased Locked Loop" in
IJSRD (International Journal for Scientific Research
and Development)-Vol. 2,Issue 3,2014 |ISSN
(online): 2321-0613.

4.

Ms. Himani Mittal (Asst. Professor) presented a

paper on "Design and Analysis of Modified
Conditional Data Mapping Flip-Flop to Ultra Low
Power and High Speed Applications" in the
International Journal of Science and Research in
August 2014.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

1.

Dr. Chhaya Dalela (Assoc. Professor) presents paper

on "Numerical Analysis of Near Field Distribution
Variation at 2300 Mhz" in the International Journal
of Next Generation and Network (IJNGN), June
2014.

5.

STUDENT EVENTS
1.

Quanta organized workshop on LFR from 23rd to 27th

September for the students of the department.

Ms. Monica Malik (Asst. Professor) presented a

paper on "Performance Analysis of Leach protocol
using Fuzzy Logic" in a National Conference of
"Futuristic Trends in Advancements of Science and
Technology" held at SMCET, Jaipur on 26th April
2014.

Ms. Himani Mittal (Asst. Professor) presented a

paper on "Low Voltage Drop out voltage Regulator
for power saving on System on Chip (SOC)". Paper
Title : 0303P15 in the International Journal of
Technological Exploration and Learning (IJTEL),
ISSN:2319-2135,Index Copernicus Value(ICV)
2012:4.69, Volume-3,Issue-3 in June 2014.

PROUD MOMENTS

1.

2.

Diksha Sharma, Swati Ghansela and Anshita

Agarwal,3rd year and Himanshika, Shreya from 1st
year won cash prize in volleyball at
CHAKRAVYUH 2014-National inter-college
championship held at IMS Ghaziabad.
EC 3rd year student, Priyanka teamed with Anukriti
Kumar, CS won in badminton doubles in an event
held at IMS on 17th October 2014