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Question Bank: Department of Ece Subject Code:141304 Subject Name: Analog and Digital Communication Year/Sem:II/III
Question Bank: Department of Ece Subject Code:141304 Subject Name: Analog and Digital Communication Year/Sem:II/III
QUESTION BANK
Subject Code :141304
Subject Name: Analog and Digital Communication
Year/Sem:II/III
UNIT -I
PART- A (2 MARKS)
1. As related to AM, what is over modulation, under modulation and 100%
modulation?
2. Define modulation index of an AM signal
3. A transmitter radiates 9 kW without modulation and 10.125 kW after modulation.
Determine depth of modulation.
4. Define the transmission efficiency of AM signal.
5. Draw the phasor diagram of AM signal.
6. Advantages of SSB.
7. Disadvantages of DSB-FC.
8. What are the advantages of superhetrodyne receiver?
9. Distinguish between low level and high level modulator.
10. Give the parameters of receiver.
11. Define sensitivity and selectivity.
12. Define fidelity.
13. What is meant by image frequency?
14. Need for modulation.
15. Application of AM.
16. What is meant by diagonal clipping and negative peak clipping?
17. Define envelope.
18. Distinguish between linear and non linear modulator.
19. What are the limitations of AM
20. Draw the envelope of AM
21. Differentiate phase modulation and frequency modulation.
22. When a signal m(t) = 3 cos (2p x 103t ) modulates a carrier c(t) = 5 cos (p x
106t),
find the modulation index and transmission bandwidth if the modulationisAM.
23. What do you mean by narrowband and wideband FM?
24. Give the frequency spectrum of narrowband FM?
25 Define frequency deviation in FM?
26 state Carsons rule of FM bandwidth?
27 Differentiate between narrow band and wideband FM.?
28 What are the advantages of FM.?
29 Define PM.
30 what is meant by indirect FM generation?
31 Draw the phasor diagram of narrow band FM.
32 Write the expression for the spectrum of a single tone FM signal.
33 Define modulation index of FM and PM.
34 Differentiate between phase and frequency modulation.
35 A carrier of frequency 100 MHz is frequency modulated by a signal x(t)=20sin
36 (200x103 t ). What is the bandwidth of the FM signal if the frequency sensitivity
of themodulator is 25 KHz per volt?
7) (i) Define modulation index for FM and PM and obtain the relation between
modulation index and modulating signal for FM and PM.
(ii) Compare the advantages and disadvantages of angle modulation with amplitude
modulation.
UNIT - II
PART A (2 MARKS)
1. Differentiate coherent and non coherent digital modulation methods
2. What is correlative coding?
3. Compare bandwidth of Mary PSK signal And Mary FSK signal
4. Sketch the waveform of PSK for binary sequence 1100101.
5. Differentiate QPSK and BPSK.
6. Differentiate ASK and FSK.
7. What are the type of digital data format.
8. Define minimum Shift keying.
9. Define Duobinary encoding
10.Define DPSK.
11 What are the advantages of QPSK?
12 Define Nyquist sampling theorem.
13 Define information capacity and bit rate.
14. Draw PWM and PPM waveforms.
15. What is the relation between bit rate and baud for a FSK system?
16. What are the advantages of digital transmission?
17. Define ASK, PSK and FSK.
18. What is meant by antipodal signal and give one example?
19. Why is ASK called as ON-OFF keying?
20. What are the differences between QASK and QPSK?
(ii) For a BPSK modulator with a Carrier frequency of 70 MHz and an input bit rate of
10 Mbps, determine the maximum and minimum upper and lower side frequencies, draw
the output spectrum, determine the minimum Nyquist bandwidth, and calculate the
baud (Assume f= 5MHz)
2) (i) Draw and explain the operations of Non-coherent and coherent FSK modulators. (8)
(ii) Draw QPSK modulator and explain. Describe its Bandwidth considerations. (8)
3) (i) Explain the principle of FSK transmitter and receiver. (10)
(ii) Write short notes on the spectrum and bandwidth of FSK. (6)
4) (i) Compare the various types of digital modulation techniques. (8)
(ii) Explain the eyepattern in base band digital transmission with a neat diagram. (8)
5) Describe FSK transmitter and FSK receiver.
6) Explain in detail carrier recovery with a suitable block diagram.
7) (i) Describe with neat diagram, the operation of a QPSK modulator. Draw its phasor
and constellation diagram. (10)
(ii) Explain the bandwidth considerations of QPSK system. (6)
8) What is carrier recovery? Discuss how carrier recovery is achieved by the squaring
loop and Costas loop circuits. (16)
9) Draw the block diagram of FSK receiver and explain the operation. Determine the : (i)
peak frequency deviation (ii) minimum bandwidth (iii) baud for FSK signal with a mark
frequency of 49 kHz, space frequency of 51 kHz, and input bit rate of 2 kbps.
10) Draw the block diagram of QPSK modulator and explain its operation. For QPSK
modulator, construct the truth table, phasor diagram and constellation diagram.
11) What is known as Binary phase shift keying? Discuss in detail the BPSK transmitter
and Receiver and also obtain the minimum double sided Nyquist bandwidth.
12) (i) Illustrate the concept of 8 QAM transmitter with the truth table. (8)
(ii) What is the need for carrier Recovery? Explain the Costas loop method of carrier
recovery. (8)
UNIT III
PART A (2 MARKS)
1. State sampling theorem.
2. What is aliasing?
3. How to avoid aliasing effect.
4. Define eye pattern.
5. Define PAM.
6. Construct NRZ and RZ format for 011010.
7. Define adaptive equalization.
8.Define ISI.
9.Define Nyquist Criteria.
10.What is the interpretation obtained from eye pattern?
11. Define Nyquist sampling theorem.
12. For the signal m t3 cos 500 t 4 sin 1000*3.14 t , Determine the Nyquist
sampling rate.
13. Draw PWM and PPM waveforms.
14. Draw the Eye pattern and indicate how ISI is measured from it.
15. What are the advantages of digital transmission?
16. Define companding.
17. Define dynamic range.
18. Determine the Nyquist sample rate for a maximum analog input frequency of
(a) 4 KHz
(b) 10 KHz.
19. Distinguish between DM and ADM.
10 (i) Find the signal amplitude for minimum quantization error in a delta modulation
system if step size is 1 volt having repetition period 1 ms. The information signal
operates at 100 Hz.
(ii) Describe the operation of DPCM system with a relevant diagram.(12)
11. For a PCM system with the following parameters, determine
(i) Minimum sampling rate
(ii) Minimum number of bits used in the PCM code
(iii) Resolution and
(iv) Quantization error
Maximum analog input frequency = 4 KHz
Maximum decoded voltage at the receiver = 2.55 V
Minimum dynamic range = 46 dB.
12. Describe DPCM transmitter and receiver with suitable block diagram.
13. (i) Draw the block diagram of a PCM transmitter and explain the function of each
block. (6)
(ii) What are the types of sampling? Explain the operation of the sample and hold circuit.
(10)
14. Draw the block diagram and describe the operation of a delta modulator. What are
its advantages and disadvantages compared to a PCM system? (16)
15. What is companding? Explain analog companding process with the help of block
diagram.
16. How does delta modulation differ from PCM? Explain delta modulation transmitter
with the help of a block diagram.
17. (i) Explain in detail the Delta modulation transmitter and Receiver. (10)
(ii) Discuss the draw backs of delta modulation and explain the significance of adaptive
delta modulator. (6)
UNIT V
PART A (2 MARKS)
1. Define pseudo noise sequence.
2. Define spread spectrum technique
3. Differentiate Slow and fast FH SS technique.
4. Differentiate TDMA and FDMA.
5. Define processing gain for DS SS technique
6. What are the advantages of Spread Spectrum techniques?
7. Differentiate DS SS and FH-SS.
(ii) List the advantages of CDMA over TDMA multiple access scheme.(6)
15. With the help of block diagram explain how DSSS can be implemented. Draw the
input and output waveforms.
16 Explain the frequency hopped spread spectrum with a block diagram.
How PN sequences are generated?
17.(i) What is a Pseudo noise sequence? What are the properties of Pseudo noise
sequence? (8)
(ii) Describe the application of CDMA in Wireless communication system. (8)
18. (i) With a block diagram explain, DS spread spectrum with coherent binary PSK.
(10)
(ii) Explain the near-far problem in spread spectrum modulation? (6)