ECE 106.

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EXPERIMENT 9-1 VOL2. SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO and EYE
DIAGRAMS

Lab results:
Adding noise to a signal

Band limiting the noisy signal

Question 1
Based on its appearance, what type of noise is the noise generator module modelling?
 White noise

Question 2
Which of the noise generator’s outputs provides the most amount of noise?
 0db
Question 3
Why doesn’t the digital data signal look as “noisy” now as it did before?
 The channel being modelled by the baseband LPF has a frequency response that is removing
many of the sinewaves on the Noisy Generator module’s output.
Question 4
What is the signal-to-noise ratio actually telling you?
 It tells about how many times bigger the signal’s RMS voltage is compared to the noise’s RMS

Question 5
Why are the two signal-to-noise ratios almost identical even though they’ve been calculated in a
different way?
 It is because the SNR is so high

Question 6
What would you expect to happen to the SNR figures if the noise generator module’s -6db or 0db
outputs are used?
 SNR would go down

Question 7
What other change to tha signal-to-noise figures would you expect to see if you used the noise
generator module’s other outputs?
 The error between SNR figures and alternate SNR figures would increase

Eye diagrams
Question 8
What is the relationship between the level of noise that the channel introduces to the digital
data signal and the size of the Eye diagram eyes?
 The greater the noised that’s establish, the more closed the eyes

Question 9
What is the relationship between the digital data signal’s bit-clock and the size of the Eye
diagram eyes?
 The higher the frequency of the bit-clock, the greater than band-limiting and the more
closed the eyes