Pangilinan, Adrian W.

EC41FB1 / ECE 401

7 / 21 / 16
Quiz #1
(Prelim)

1. Discuss the functionality of VI.

>> When the user input a frequency then it divided by 1000 the result is in normalized
frequency while in aliased frequency if the value of normalized frequency is greater
than or equal to 0.5 then it multiply by 1000, if its less than 0.5 then the value of aliased
is zero.
2. Explain the choice of constants for the number of sample and
the dt of the Sine Wave.vi and Build Waveform nodes
respectively.
>> In the first sine wave vi. the number of samples is 10 and 1000 in the second. It means that
the first waveform which is the sampled signal has 10 samples and the second waveform
which is the original signal has 1000 samples. Therefore, build waveform nodes modifies
an existing waveform.
3. Adjusting the values of the Analog Frequency.
Input Analog
Frequency F(Hz)
0
100
300
500
700
800
900
1000

Normalized Frequency

Alias Frequency (Fa)

0
0.1
0.3
0.5
0.7
0.8
0.9
1

0
0
0
500
300
200
100
0

Question: Based on the table above, what analog frequencies did have an alias frequency? In
general, what range of frequencies of signals will have aliases based on the observations that can
be drawn from the table above? What is the relationship of frequencies of signals which did have
aliases to the sampling frequency?
>>The analog frequencies that have an aliased frequency are 500, 600, 700, 800, and 900. Therefore
the range of frequency to have aliased is greater than or equal to 500 but less than to 1000.
Question: As stated in the Background Information part of this activity, a signal can be
reconstructed from its samples if the sampling process satisfies the Nyquist criterion. The Nyquist
criterion requires that the samples of the signal do not belong to the alias of the original signal.
What then is this Nyquist criterion?
>>Nyquist criterion is for determining the stability or instability of a feedback system. It is a graphical
technique for determining the stability of a dynamical system. It can be applied to systems defined by nonrational functions, such as systems with delays. It can handle transfer functions with right half-plane
singularities. In addition, there is a natural generalization to more complex systems with multiple inputs and
multiple outputs, such as control systems.