EE-330 Digital Signal Processing

Semester Project
Transmission & Reception of Multiple Narrowband Signals
through Signal Processing Techniques

In this project, you will transmit 3 speech signals by digitally mixing each of them at
different frequencies prior to analog RF up-conversion. This method can be used practically to
transmit multiple signals on a single RF carrier frequency. Specifically, the projects tasks are
as follows.

1 Transmitter
Record 3 different voice signals on your own laptop/pc and sample each of them at different
sampling frequencies. Pass each sampled voice signal through LPF having cutoff frequency
of 4 KHz. Resample each filtered signal at SAME sampling rate to make the dimensions
consistent. Upsample each resampled signal by the SAME factor before digital upconversion.
Mix each upsampled signal with different frequency digital carrier. Make sure to set proper
carrier frequency separation between adjacent carrier frequencies. Add three signals now. This
signal will be up-converted to RF through analog mixing. But in MATLAB, you will skip this
step and assume that this is your transmitted signal.

2 Receiver
On the receiver side, pass this composite signal through separate and appropriately designed
BPFs to extract each signal. Now here comes the most challenging part of this project. You
need to downconvert these signals digitally, but without using mixing and filtering (Hint:
Either use decimation or bandpass sampling). Finally convert these signals back to continuous
and play the audio to check the validity. Also plot the mean square error between the received
and actual voice signals.

Note:

1. Project will be done in group (max. 3 students per group).

2. Do your own work/simulations (It is not possible that two or more persons in the class
think and write exactly the same). In case of copying, project will not be graded.

DE-40 (Electrical) 1 DEE, NUST College of EME