AP ECET 2026 Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Syllabus PDF - Download Topic-wise Syllabus

Electrical Engineering

• Ohm’s law / Kirchhoff’s law 
• Star-delta transformation 
• Basics of DC machines 
• Motors and generators 
• AC machines 

Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering 

• Photo transistor/ photo conductive device/ photo multiplier/ solar cell/ opto coupler/ dot matrix/ seven segment displays 
• Bar graph 
• Basic principles of induction heating, dielectric heating, and resistance welding 
• Generation and applications of ultrasonics 
• Signal flow graphs 
• Time response of a first-order and second-order system
• Concept of stability 
• Frequency response by Bode plot 

Electronics 

• Resistors/capacitors/inductors specifications and applications of transformers 
• Basics of switches/ fuels/ relays/ microphones 
• Semiconductor materials 
• PN junction formation 
• Forward and reverse biasing voltages 
• Formation, working, and configurations of PNP and NPN transistors 
• Zener diode/ FET/ MOSFET/ UJT/ diode as rectifier 
• CLC and CLC filter circuits 
• RC coupled amplifier, transformer-coupled amplifier, Darlington, and cascaded amplifier 
• Class A and Class B push-pull amplifier 
• Complementary type power amplifier 
• Oscillator principle 
• RC phase shift and Wien bridge oscillator 
• Bootstrap sweep circuit 
• Miller sweep circuit 
• Bistable, astable, and monostable multibvibrator using transistor 

Digital Electronics 

• Number systems 
• Logic gates 
• Half adder and subtractor 
• Full adder 
• RS, T, D, and master-slave JK type flip flops 
• Counters and up/down counters 
• Ring counter 
• Registers/ shift registers/ universal shift register/ basic memories (RAM and ROM)
• ADC (counter method & successive approximation method) and DAC (R-2R method, binary weighted method)

Electronic Measuring Instruments 

• Analog instruments 
• Extension of range of ammeter/ voltmeter/ ohmmeter 
• FET voltmeter/ differential voltmeter 
• Digital instruments 
• Ramp 
• Dual slope integration 
• Successive approximation 
• Digital frequency meter 
• CRO-CRT/ time basegenerator 
• Deflection sensitivity 
• Triggered sweep circuits 
• CRO applications 
• AF oscillator/ RF signal generator 
• AF and RF power meters 
• Q meter/ distortion factor meter/ digital IC tester/ logic analyser 

Process Instrumentation 

• Fundamentals of instrumentation 
• Basic transducer theory for measurement of displacement (LVDT/ potentiometer/ inductive/ capacitive)
• Angular velocity & temperature (thermometers/ RTD/ thermocouple/ thermister/ pyrometers)
• Pressure (elastic elements/ strain gauge/piezoelectric)
• Flow (head type flow meters, rotameter, anemometers, electromagnetic flow meter, ultrasonic flow meter)
• PH/ conductivity/ weight/ humidity/ level/ viscosity/ density 
• Detection of alpha, beta, and gamma particles 

Process Control 

• On-off control 
• Proportional/ integral/ derivative controllers 
• PID controller 
• Tuning of PID controller/ actuators (pneumatic/ electro-pneumatic hydraulic) basis of control valves 
• Cascade controller/radio controller/ adaptive control
• Line diagrams 
• Letter codes
• Basic of the CNC machine 
• Basics of robots 

Communications and Linear IC Applications 

• Need & type of modulation 
• SSB, DSB, and VSB transmission 
• AM and FM transmitters 
• AM and FM detectors 
• Basics of pulse modulation and applications 
• Optical fibre communication 
• Characteristics of operational amplifier/ applications of operational amplifier like (differentiator/ summer/ integrator/ inverter/ voltage follower/ V to I converter/ I to V converter, comparator/ square wave generator/ monostable multivibrator/ astable multivibrator/ wienbridge oscillator/ instrumentation amplifier/ Schmitt trigger/ applications of 555 timer/ phase-locked loop) 

Analytical and Biomedical Instrumentation 

• Electromagnetic spectrum 
• Beer-Lambert's law 
• Mono chromator 
• Light sources and detectors 
• Spectrophotometer (visible/UV/ IR)
• Flame photometer/spectrofluorimeter/ polarimeter/ gas analyser/ mass spectrometer/ liquid chromatography/ gas chromatography
• Basics of diagnostic equipment: ECG/ EEG/ EMG 
• Blood flow measurement 
• Pacemaker 
• Defibrillator 
• X-ray equipment 
• CAT

Microcontroller and PLCs

• Architecture and instruction set of the 8051 microcontroller 
• Interfacing peripherals (8255/ 8251/ 8257) and applications of 8051
• Basics of PLC - architecture and instruction set of PLC and applications 

Unit 1- Electrical Engineering 

06

Unit 2- Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering

09

Unit 3- Electronics 

12

Unit 4- Digital Electronics 

10

Unit 5- Electronic Measuring Instruments 

08

Unit 6 - Process Instrumentation 

14

Unit 7 - Process Control 

14

Unit 8- Communication & Linear IC Applications 

08

Unit 9 - Analytical and Biomedical Instrumentation 

11

Unit 10- Micro Controllers 

08