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GATE Analog and Digital Electronics: Schmitt triggers, Sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Schmitt triggers, Sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters (Analog and Digital Electronics, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2015 EE Q50 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – An 8-bit, unipolar Successive Approximation Register type ADC is used to convert 3.5 V to digital equivalent. The reference voltage is +5 V. The…
  2. GATE 2016 EE Q20 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A temperature in the range of -40° C to 55° C is to be measured with a resolution of 0.1° C. The minimum number of ADC bits required to get a matching…
  3. GATE 2016 EE Q47 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A 2-bit flash Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) is given below. The input is 0 V IN 3 Volts. The expression for the LSB of the output B 0 as a Boolean…
  4. GATE 2021 EE Q62 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A CMOS Schmitt-trigger inverter has a low output level of 0 V and a high output level of 5 V. It has input thresholds of 1.6 V and 2.4 V. The input…
  5. GATE 2023 EE Q40 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – An 8 bit ADC converts analog voltage in the range of 0 to +5 V to the corresponding digital code as per the conversion characteristics shown in…