SOBHASARIA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SIKAR

DEPARTMENT OF ECE
ECE Branch (Sec A&B), III Yr VIth Semester (2009-10)

ASSIGNMENT SHEET
SUBJECT: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (6 EC 4)
Q1.
A television signal having band width of 4.2 MHz is transmitted using binary PCM
system. Given that the no. of quantization level 512, Find out
(i)
Code word length (n)
(ii)
Transmission bandwidth
(iii)
Bit rate (r)
(iv)
Output signal to quantization noise ratio.
Q2.

Consider a sinusoid signal x (t) = 5sin (500t). Determine

(i)
SNR when signal is quantized using 10 bit PCM.
(ii)
How many bits of quantization are needed to achieve SNR at least 40 dB.

Q3.
The band width of an input signal to PCM is restricted to 4 KHz. The input signal varies
in amplitude -3.8v to +3.8v and has the average power of 30mW. The required signal to noise
ratio is given as 20 dB. The PCM modulator produces binary output, assuming uniform
quantization. Find the no. of bits required per sample.
Q4.

Q5.

Draw the wave form of bit-sequence 10011011 in following line code formats:
(i)
Unipolar RZ
(ii)
Unipolar NRZ
(iii)
AMI RZ
(iv)
Manchester
Draw the waveforms given data bit sequence 10110010 in the following data formats:
(i)
Polar RZ
(ii)
AMI
(iii)
Differential Manchester
(iv)
Pseudoternary

Q6.
Sketch the waveform for the bit stream 10000000000100. Assume that the polarity of the
first 1 is positive.
(i)
B8ZS
(ii)
HDB3
(iii)
NRZ-I
Q7.
(a) Write advantage & disadvantage of digital Communication systems.
(b) Explain the Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) is detail with block diagram.

Q8.

(a) Derive the expression for signal to quantization noise ratio in PCM.
(b) Find the expression for signal to quantization noise ration in delta modulation.

Q9.

What is the need of Non Uniform Quantization?

Explain A Law & - Law

Q10. A signal m (t) band limited to 3 KHz us sampled at a rate 33 % higher than the Nyquist
rate. The maximum acceptable error is the sample amplitude (the max. quantization error) is
0.5% of peak amplitude mp. The quantized samples are binary coded. Find the minimum
bandwidth of a channel required to transmit the encoded binary signal. If 24 such signals are
time division multiplexed, determine the minimum transmission bandwidth required to transmit
the multiplexed signal.
Q11. What are the advantages of delta modulation? Explain various noises present in the delta
modulation. How there noise can be minimized also draw the block diagram of Delta Modulation
& Demodulator.
Q12. Explain briefly how differential PCM and delta modulation exploit the redundancies in
speech waveform to encode it in fewer bits.
Q13.

Write short notes on:

(i)
Differential PCM (DPCM)
(ii)
Adaptive Delta Modulation
(iii)
Delta Modulation
(iv)
Entropy of a Source

Q14. Determine the signal amplitude for minimum quantization error in delta modulation
system if step size is 1 volts having repletion period 1ms. The information signal operator at
100Hz.
Q15. A DM system operates with 10 KHz sinusoidal signal with 1V peak to peak input. It is
sampled at 10 times the Nyquist rate. Determine.
(i) The step size to prevent slop overload
(ii) The corresponding SNR.
Q16. A delta modulation design to operate at 3 time of Nyquist rate for a signal with a 3 KHz
bandwidth. The quantizing step size is 200 mV. Determine the maximum amplitude of a 1 KHz
input sinusoid for which the DM cannot show the step overload error.