Department of Electronics Engineering

Experiment No 2

Semester S.E. Semester IV– Electronics Engineering

Subject Pcom Laboratory
Laboratory Professor Prof. Uma Jaishankar

Student Name YASH ARUN KHARAT

Roll Number 22103A2014

Experiment Number 2
Problem Statement: Design an Amplitude modulator circuit and plot the signal with the modulated waveform. Give your
analysis on the same

Resources / Hardware: Computer Software: MATLAB Simulink

Apparatus Required

Block diagram Modulator Carrier, Message, Constant blocks

elements
1. Carrier Signal Source  Simulink –> Sources –> Sine wave
 Simulink –> Sources –> Constant
2. Message Signal Source
View Block
3. Blocks for viewing the signals – Scope
4. Product Block  Simulink –> Sink –> Scope
5. Summer Block Product and Summer Block
6. Constant Block
 Simulink –> Math Operations–>
Product
 Simulink –> Math Operations–>
Summer
Block diagram
Representation

Carrier Scope1

Product2 Scope

message Scope2

Product1

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Matlab code % carrier Frequency

Fc = 100;

% sampling frequency
Fs= 1000;

% time Duration
t = (0 : 10 / Fs : 2);

% sine Wave with time duration of 't'

x = sin(2*pi*t);

% Amplitude Modulation
y = ammod(x, Fc, Fs);

plot(y);
title('Amplitude Modulation');
xlabel('Time(sec)');
ylabel('Amplitude');

Output 4 outputs
waveforms By simulink:

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1.Message signal :-

2.Carrier Signal :-

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3.Modulated waveform :-

By code:

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Hardware Setup

Output

Applications:  Broadcast Transmissions: AM is used in broadcasting transmission over the

short, medium and long wavebands. Since AM is easy to demodulate radio
receivers for amplitude modulation are therefore easier and cheaper to
manufacture.
 Air-band radio: AM is used in the VHF transmissions for many airborne
applications such as ground-to-air radio communications or two-way radio links for
ground staff personnel.
 Single sideband: Amplitude modulation in this form is used for HF radio links or
point-to-point HF links. AM uses a lower bandwidth and provides more effective use
of the transmitted power.
 Quadrature amplitude modulation: AM is used extensively in transmitting data in
several ways including short-range wireless links such as Wi-Fi to cellular
telecommunications and others.
These are some of the important applications of amplitude modulation.

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