GATE 2022 Syllabus for ECE; Check important topics to score high

Sections

Topics to be Covered in GATE ECE

Engineering Mathematics

• Linear Algebra

• Calculus

• Complex Analysis

• Probability and Statistics

• Differential Equations

Networks, Signals and Systems

• Circuit analysis

• Discrete-time signals

• Continuous-time signals

Electromagnetics

• Maxwell's equations

• Poynting vector

• Plane waves and properties

• Transmission lines

• Smith chart

• Rectangular and circular waveguides

Electronic Devices

• Energy bands in intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors

• Carrier transport

• P-N junction, Zener diode, BJT, MOS capacitor, MOSFET, LED, photodiode, and solar cell.

Analog Circuits

• Diode circuits

• BJT and MOSFET amplifiers

• Op-amp circuits

• Schmitt triggers

• Oscillators

Control Systems

• Basic control system components

• Feedback principle

• Transfer function

• Transient and steady-state analysis of LTI systems

• Bode and root-locus plots

• State variable model and solution of state equation of LTI systems.

Digital Circuits

• Number representations

• Combinatorial circuits

• Sequential circuits

• Data converters

• Semiconductor memories: ROM, SRAM, DRAM.

• Computer organization

Communications

• Random processes: autocorrelation and power spectral density, properties of white noise, filtering of random signals through LTI systems.

• Analog communications

• Digital communications

• Fundamentals of error correction, Hamming codes, CRC.