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Duarte, John Paul D. Communications 2

BSEE – 31A1 Seatwork No.1
1. If S/N = 20dB and the channel has bandwidth B = 1MHz, determine the channel capacity.

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o determine the channel capacity with the given value of B = 1Mhz & S/N = 20dB. Let’s compute first the SNR. With a
formula of SNR = 10SNRdb/10. After that we substitute the value to a Shannon formula [C=Blog 2(1+SNR)] to get the channel
capacity.

2. Telephone circuit has a bandwidth of 3000 Hz and a S/N ratio of 30dB, compare the channel
capacity using Shannon and Nyquist theorem. Explain your answer.

To get the channel capacity using a Shannon theorem I use the formula C = B Log2(1+SNR) while in Nyquist theorem I use
C = 2 B Log2 (2). Given with a value of B = 3000 Hz that I convert to a millihertz which is 0.003 Mhz. I substitute the values
to the formula/s to get the channel capacity. Using different theorem, both doesn’t have a close answer at all.

3. A compact disc (CD) records audio signals digitally using PCM. The audio baseband signal’s
bandwidth is 15 kHz. If the Nyquist samples are uniformly quantized into L = 65,536 levels and
then binary-coded;
determine the number of
binary digits (bits) n required
to encode a sample. How
many bits per second are
being transmitted?
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