Changes in GATE-2021 syllabus from GATE-2020 syllabus for

INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING(TECHNICAL SUBJECTS)

Subject Added New Topics Removed Topics

Process Control Tuning of PID controllers & Sizing of control valves N/A

Sources effects of noise & interference in electronic

Analog Electronics N/A
circuits
Embedded Systems, Basics of distributed Control
Digital Electronics N/A
Systems (DCS), Programmable logic controllers (PLC)
Standards (R, L, C, voltage, current & frequency),
Measurements N/A
Linear & Weighted regression
Communication Quadrature amplitude N/A

Sensors & Industrial

4 – 20 mA two – wire transmitter N/A
Instrumentation

Optical Interferometer: Applications in metrology, UV – VIS

N/A
Instrumentation Spectro photo meter, Mass spectrometer

Electrical Circuits Transient analysis of RLC circuits with a.c excitation N/A

Single phase transformer: Equivalent circuit, phasor

diagram, open circuit and short circuit tests,
regulation and efficiency; Three phase induction
motors: principle of operation, types, performance,
Machines N/A
torque-speed characteristics, no-load and blocked
rotor tests, equivalent circuit, starting and speed
control; Types of losses and efficiency calculations of
electric machines.
Coulomb's Law, Electric Field Intensity, Electric Flux
Density, Gauss's Law, Divergence, Electric field and
potential due to point, line, plane and spherical
charge distributions, Effect of dielectric medium,
Electricity and
Capacitance of simple configurations, Biot‐Savart’s N/A
Magnetism
law, Ampere’s law, Curl, Faraday’s law, Lorentz force,
Inductance, Magnetomotive force, Reluctance,
Magnetic circuits, Self and Mutual inductance of
simple configurations.

Section 1: Engineering Mathematics

Linear Algebra: Matrix algebra, systems of linear equations, consistency and rank, Eigen
value and Eigen vectors.
Calculus: Mean value theorems, theorems of integral calculus, partial derivatives, maxima
and minima, multiple integrals, Fourier series, vector identities, line, surface and volume
integrals, Stokes, Gauss and Green’s theorems.
Differential equations: First order equation (linear and nonlinear), second order linear
differential equations with constant coefficients, method of variation of parameters,
Cauchy’s and Euler’s equations, initial and boundary value problems, solution of partial
differential equations: variable separable method.
Analysis of complex variables: Analytic functions, Cauchy’s integral theorem and integral
formula, Taylor’s and Laurent’s series, residue theorem, solution of integrals.
Probability and Statistics: Sampling theorems, conditional probability, mean, median, mode,
standard deviation and variance; random variables: discrete and continuous distributions:
normal, Poisson and binomial distributions.
Numerical Methods: Matrix inversion, solutions of non-linear algebraic equations, iterative
methods for solving differential equations, numerical integration, regression and correlation
analysis.
Section 2: Electricity and Magnetism
Coulomb's Law, Electric Field Intensity, Electric Flux Density, Gauss's Law, Divergence, Electric
field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge distributions, Effect of
dielectric medium, Capacitance of simple configurations, Biot‐Savart’s law, Ampere’s law,
Curl, Faraday’s law, Lorentz force, Inductance, Magnetomotive force, Reluctance, Magnetic
circuits, Self and Mutual inductance of simple configurations.
Section 3: Electrical Circuits and Machines
Voltage and current sources: independent, dependent, ideal and practical; v-i relationships
of resistor, inductor, mutual inductance and capacitor; transient analysis of RLC circuits with
dc excitation.
Kirchoff’s laws, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition, Thevenin, Norton, maximum power
transfer and reciprocity theorems.
Peak-, average- and rms values of ac quantities; apparent-, active- and reactive powers;
phasor analysis, impedance and admittance; series and parallel resonance, locus diagrams,
realization of basic filters with R, L and C elements. transient analysis of RLC circuits with ac
excitation. One-port and two-port networks, driving point impedance and admittance, open-
, and short circuit parameters.
Single phase transformer: equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, open circuit and short circuit
tests, regulation and efficiency; Three phase induction motors: principle of operation, types,
performance, torque-speed characteristics, no-load and blocked rotor tests, equivalent
circuit, starting and speed control; Types of losses and efficiency calculations of electric
machines.

Section 4: Signals and Systems

Periodic, aperiodic and impulse signals; Laplace, Fourier and z-transforms; transfer function,
frequency response of first and second order linear time invariant systems, impulse response
of systems; convolution, correlation. Discrete time system: impulse response, frequency
response, pulse transfer function; DFT and FFT; basics of IIR and FIR filters.
Section 5: Control Systems
Feedback principles, signal flow graphs, transient response, steady-state-errors, Bode plot,
phase and gain margins, Routh and Nyquist criteria, root loci, design of lead, lag and lead-lag
compensators, state-space representation of systems; time-delay systems; mechanical,
hydraulic and pneumatic system components, synchro pair, servo and stepper motors, servo
valves; on-off, P, PI, PID, cascade, feedforward, and ratio controllers, tuning of PID controllers
and sizing of control valves.

Section 6: Analog Electronics

Characteristics and applications of diode, Zener diode, BJT and MOSFET; small signal analysis
of transistor circuits, feedback amplifiers. Characteristics of ideal and practical operational
amplifiers; applications of opamps: adder, subtractor, integrator, differentiator, difference
amplifier, instrumentation amplifier, precision rectifier, active filters, oscillators, signal
generators, voltage controlled oscillators and phase locked loop, sources and effects of noise
and interference in electronic circuits.

Section 7: Digital Electronics

Combinational logic circuits, minimization of Boolean functions. IC families: TTL and CMOS.
Arithmetic circuits, comparators, Schmitt trigger, multi-vibrators, sequential circuits,
flipflops, shift registers, timers and counters; sample-and-hold circuit, multiplexer, analog-
to-digital (successive approximation, integrating, flash and sigma-delta) and digital-to-analog
converters (weighted R, R-2R ladder and current steering logic). Characteristics of ADC and
DAC (resolution, quantization, significant bits, conversion/settling time); basics of number
systems, Embedded Systems: Microprocessor and microcontroller applications, memory and
input-output interfacing; basics of data acquisition systems, basics of distributed control
systems (DCS) and programmable logic controllers (PLC).

Section 8: Measurements
SI units, standards (R,L,C, voltage, current and frequency), systematic and random errors in
measurement, expression of uncertainty - accuracy and precision, propagation of errors,
linear and weighted regression. Bridges: Wheatstone, Kelvin, Megohm, Maxwell, Anderson,
Schering and Wien for measurement of R, L, C and frequency, Q-meter. Measurement of
voltage, current and power in single and three phase circuits; ac and dc current probes; true
rms meters, voltage and current scaling, instrument transformers, timer/counter, time,
phase and frequency measurements, digital voltmeter, digital multimeter; oscilloscope,
shielding and grounding.

Section 9: Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation

Resistive-, capacitive-, inductive-, piezoelectric-, Hall effect sensors and associated signal
conditioning circuits; transducers for industrial instrumentation: displacement (linear and
angular), velocity, acceleration, force, torque, vibration, shock, pressure (including low
pressure), flow (variable head, variable area, electromagnetic, ultrasonic, turbine and open
channel flow meters) temperature (thermocouple, bolometer, RTD (3/4 wire), thermistor,
pyrometer and semiconductor); liquid level, pH, conductivity and viscosity measurement. 4-
20 mA two-wire transmitter.

Section 10: Communication and Optical Instrumentation

Amplitude- and frequency modulation and demodulation; Shannon's sampling theorem,
pulse code modulation; frequency and time division multiplexing, amplitude-, phase-,
frequency-, quadrature amplitude, pulse shift keying for digital modulation; optical sources
and detectors: LED, laser, photo-diode, light dependent resistor, square law detectors and
their characteristics; interferometer: applications in metrology; basics of fiber optic sensing.
UV-VIS Spectro photometers, Mass spectrometer.