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Prof. Dr. Leonhard Reindl
Lehrstuhl El. Mess- und Prüfverfahren

Signal Processing
Exercise Nr. 6 SS 2016
Date of issue: 01.06.16

Sampling

1 Sampling theorem: fs > 2*fg

a) Explain in the frequency and in the time domain why the sampling theorem excludes a
sampling with exactly 2 points per period.
b) A sine signal y(t) = sin(ω0t) is undersampled with the frequency ωs = 1,5ω0. Demonstrate
the sampling process in time and frequency domain, and compute ωrec after
reconstruction with an ideal low-pass filter with cut off frequency of 0.5ωs.

2 Signal sampling and reconstruction

Given the following function s(t) with:
⎧ 1 1
⎪0.54 + 0.46 ⋅ cos(2π t ) for − < t <
s (t ) = ⎨ 2 2
⎪⎩ 0 otherwise

(This function represents the hamming-window.)

It is sampled at ...-4T; -3T; -2T; -T; 0; T; 2T; 3T;
4T ..., where T=1/10.

a) What is the sampled function in time domain?

b) What is the sampled function in frequency domain (spectrum)?
c) How can you reconstruct the signal? Is the reconstruction error free? If not, why and
which error can be made?
d) What does the hold element do in the sampling process? What is about the smoothing
filter by signal reconstruction? Draw the frequency response of both.

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DFT
3 Discrete time Fourier transform
A time-discrete signal x(n) consists of 6 sample values:
n 0 1 2 3 4 5
x(n) 0.5 -1 0.5 0.5 -1 0.5
We apply a DFT with length N=6 on the signal x(n).
a) Calculate X(0), X(3) and X(4).
b) Draw the calculated spectrum (magnitude and phase) and explain the results in detail (the
meaning/relation of the peaks in the spectrum; what does it mean for the time domain).

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