G K M COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

CHENNAI-63.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
EC6402 COMMUNICATION THEORY

II ECE A

PART A
1. Distinguish between narrowband and wideband FM?
2. When a modulating voltage in an FM system is 500Hz and modulating voltage is 3V,modulation
index is 60.Calculate maximum deviation and bandwidth.
3. A carrier wave of frequency 100 Mhz is frequency modulated by a sinusoidal wave of amplitude
2 volts and frequency 100 Khz. The frequency sensitivity of the modulator is 2.5 Khz/Volts.
Determine the bandwidth of FM signal.
4. State the disadvantages of FM.
5. How is the narrowband FM converted to wideband FM?
6. Draw the block diagram of a method for generating a narrowband signal.
7. If the maximum deviation in a phase modulation system when a modulating signal of 10V is
applied is 0.1.Determine the value of phase deviation constant.
8. Draw a simple schematic of PLL demodulator
9. A carrier signal is frequency modulated by a sinusoidal signal of 5 Vpp and 10 kHz. If the

frequency deviation constant is 1 kHz/V, determine the maximum frequency deviation

and state whether the scheme is narrowband FM or Wideband FM.
10. What is meant by indirect FM generation?
11. State Carsons rule of FM bandwidth?
12. What is the bandwidth required for an FM wave in which the modulating frequency
signal is 2 KHz and the maximum frequency deviation is 12 KHz?
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State central limit theorem.

What is meant by detection ? Name the methods for detecting FM signals.
State the properties of guassian process.\
State the properties of autocorrelation function?
Define ergodic process.
State Einstein-Weiner-Khintchine relations.
Draw the magnitude response of ideal narrowband filter?
Compare random process and random variable?
Differentiate autocorrelation and cross correlation functions.
When does a random variable be guassian distributed?
PART B

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Explain the Armstrong method to generate FM signal?

How does a phase discriminator act as a FM demodulator? Justify with neat diagrams.
With a block diagram, explain the direct method of generating the FM wave.
Explain with a block diagram,how the PLL is used to demodulate the FM wave.(8)
How can you generate an FM from PM and PM from FM. (4)
5. Explain about mean,covariance and correlation functions. State the properties of Auto correlation
function.

6. Derive the transmission of a random process through a linear time invariant filter.
7. Explain about guassian process and its properties.