EC312 Homework 17

Name: ____________________________

Read: (1) Lecture 17 Notes

(2) Frenzel, Principles of Electronic Communications Systems, 3rd Ed, Ch. 7-1,2,3 (p.199-224))

1. What is the name given to the process of measuring the value of an analog signal at some point in time?

2. What is the name given to the process of assigning a specific binary number to an instantaneous value
on an analog signal?

3. A video signal contains light variations that change at a frequency as high as 3.5 MHz. What is the
minimum sampling frequency for A/D conversion? What is another name for the minimum sampling
frequency?

4. Consider the following analog waveform. This waveform is to be sampled at a 1-kHz rate and quantized
with a 3-bit quantizer (input range -1.0 to +1.0 V).

(a) What is the resolution (q) of this quantizer? q=_____________________________

(b) Circle the sample points on the analog waveform below.
(c) Indicate the quantization intervals and corresponding binary values.
(d) Indicate the binary number assigned to each sample point.

1.000

0.750

0.500

0.250
Voltage (V)

0.000

-0.250

-0.500

-0.750

-1.000

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Time (ms)
1
(e) Assume the bits are transmitted and received. When the information is recovered, it does not look
identical to the original analog signal. What is the term to describe this difference and what are two
methods used to minimize the difference.

(f) Why use digital signals instead of analog signals if digital signals introduce the problem of part (e).