The GATE syllabus for ECE 2023 will be available on the official website. Along with the brochure, the GATE 2023 syllabus will also be revealed. Candidates can now also review the GATE ECE syllabus on this page.
GATE 2023 Syllabus for Electronics and Communication Engineering
Candidates studying for the GATE 2023 exam in electronics and communication engineering can review the complete syllabus to learn about the topics that must be covered for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. Candidates can improve their preparations by going over the syllabus and focusing on the main areas that carry more weight in the exam. Learn more on the GATE syllabus for ECE here. Here is a brief breakdown of the syllabus:
| Sections | Topics in each section |
| Engineering Mathematics |
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| Networks, Signals and Systems |
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| Electronic Devices | Energy bands in intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, equilibrium carrier concentration, direct and indirect band-gap semiconductors and carrier transport. |
| Analog Circuits | Diode circuits, BJT and MOSFET amplifiers, Op-amp circuits. |
| Digital Circuits | Number representations, combinatorial circuits, sequential circuits, data converters, semiconductor memories and computer organisation. |
| Control Systems | Basic control system components; feedback principle; transfer function; block diagram representation; signal flow graph; transient and steady-state analysis of LTI systems; frequency response; Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist stability criteria; Bode and root-locus plots; lag, lead and lag-lead compensation; state variable model and solution of state equation of LTI systems. |
| Communications | Random processes, analog communications, information theory, digital communications, fundamentals of error correction, Hamming codes, CRC. |
| Electromagnetics | Maxwell’s equations, plane waves and properties, transmission lines, rectangular and circular waveguides, light propagation in optical fibres, dipole and monopole antennas and linear antenna arrays. |
GATE Exam Pattern for GATE 2023 – Highlights
The GATE 2023 exam pattern will be released on the official website of IIT Kanpur. Candidates can learn much crucial information about the GATE exam from the GATE exam pattern 2023, including the types of questions that will be asked in the exam, the total number of questions, the exam time, and much more. Read more on the GATE exam pattern here.
| Particulars | Details |
| Examination Mode | Computer Based Test (Online) |
| Duration | 3 Hours |
| Number of Papers in GATE 2023 | 29 Papers |
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| Design of Questions | The questions are designed to test the listed abilities:
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| Number of Questions | 65 Questions (including 10 questions from General Aptitude) |
| Distribution of Questions in all Papers except AR, CY, EY, GG, MA, PH and XL | Engineering Mathematics – 13 Marks
Subject Questions – 72 Marks General Aptitude – 15 Marks |
| Distribution of Questions in AR, CY, EY, GG, MA, PH, XH and XL | Questions from Subject Concerned – 85 Marks
General Aptitude – 15 Marks |
| Total Marks | 100 Marks |
| Marking Scheme | All of the questions will be worth 1 or 2 marks |
| Negative Marking | Two types of MCQs:
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