AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEY:

Amplitude shift keying in terms of digital communications is a modulation process, which

imparts to a sinusoid two or more discrete amplitude levels. ASK is a form of amplitude
modulation that represents digital data as variations in the amplitude of a carrier wave. In an
ASK system, the binary symbol 1 is represented by transmitting a fixed-amplitude carrier wave
and fixed frequency for a bit duration of T seconds. If the signal value is 1 then the carrier signal
will be transmitted; otherwise, a signal value of 0 will be transmitted. These are related to the
number of levels adopted by the digital message.

There are so many types of Shift Keying like PSK , FSK , BPSK but here we are talking about
only ASK.
MATLAB Code:

F1=100; %Carrier Frequency

F2=60; %Data Rate Frequency
A=10; %Amplitude
t=0:0.001:1; %0 to 1 with 0.001 increment
x=A.*sin(2*pi*F1*t); %Carrier Sine wave
u=A/2.*square(2*pi*F2*t)+(A/2); %Square wave message
v=x.*u; %Modulated Wave MULTIPLIED
%==============================MODULATION===================================
v1=x.*u %Modulated Wave MULTIPLIED
v2 = u ;
v3 = x ;
figure(1);
subplot(3,1,1);
plot(t,x);
xlabel('Time');
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('Carrier');
grid on;
subplot(3,1,2);
plot(t,u);
xlabel('Time');
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('Square Pulses');
grid on;subplot(3,1,3);
plot(t,v);
xlabel('Time');
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('ASK Signal');
grid on;
figure(2);
% ////////////////////////////////////////
subplot(3,1,1);
plot(t,v1);
xlabel('Time');
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('ASK Signal');
grid on;
subplot(3,1,2);
plot(t,v2);
xlabel('Time');
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('Square Pulses');
grid on;
subplot(3,1,3);
plot(t,v3); %Frequency Must be Half
xlabel('Time'); %e.g F1 = 40 , then F2= 20
ylabel('Amplitude');
title('Carrier ');
grid on;