(iii) Assuming that the signal is sinusoidal and that maximum
signal amplitude is 1V, determine the quantization step size
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Examination - 2
DEPARTMENT OF ECE
Branch & Section: III ECE Date & Time: 08.08.18 & 3 Hours
Semester: V Max.Marks: 100
Subject: EC6501 Digital Communication
Staff Incharge: M.Kumar, AP/ECE
PART A (10 × 2 = 20)
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS
1. Compare uniform and non-uniform quantization.
2. What is natural and flat top sampling?
3. Define the term aliasing.
4. State any two non-uniform quantization rules.
5. Define quantization noise power.
6. Define prediction error.
7. Differentiate between PCM and DPCM.
8. A speech signal with maximum frequency of 3.4 KHz and
maximum amplitude of 1v is applied to a delta modulator
whose bit rate is set at 20Kbps. Discuss the choice of
appropriate step size for delta modulator.
9. Compare DM and ADM.
10. What are the different types of adaptive quantization
methods?
PART B (5 × 13 = 65)
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS
11. (a) A compact disc (CD) records audio signals digitally using PCM.
Assume the audio signal bandwidth to be 15KHz.
(i) What is the Nyquist rate? (2 Marks)
(ii) If the Nyquist samples are quantized to L=65536 levels and
then binary coded, determine the number of bits required to
encode a sample. (2 Marks)
and signal to quantization noise ratio. (3 Marks)
(iv) Determine the number of bits per second (bps) required to
encode the audio signal. (3 Marks)
(v) For practical reasons, signals are sampled above the Nyquist
rate. Practical CDs use 44000 samples per second. For L =
65536, determine the number of bits per second required to
encode the signal and the minimum bandwidth required to
transmit the encoded signal. (3 Marks)
(Or)
(b) State the sampling theorem. Explain the ideal sampling
process with necessary expressions and diagrams. (13 Marks)
12. (a) What is PAM? Explain TDM process with necessary diagrams.
(13 Marks)
(Or)
(b) Explain the process of quantization and obtain an expression
for signal to quantization noise ratio in the case of uniform
quantizer. (13 Marks)
13. (a) With neat diagrams, Explain pulse code modulation and
demodulation system. (13 Marks)
(Or)
(b) Explain the principle of Linear predictive vocoder with neat
diagrams. (13 Marks)
14. (a) Derive the signal to quantization noise ratio of delta
modulator. Assume that there is no slope overload distortion in
the system. (13 Marks)
(Or)
(b) What is DM? Explain the transmitter and receiver of DM with
neat block diagram. (13 Marks)
15. (a) Explain noises in DM system. How to overcome this in ADM?
(13 Marks)
(Or)
 (b) Explain DPCM system with neat block diagram and
expressions. Show that SNR of DPCM system is better than of PCM.
(13 Marks)

PART C (1 × 15 = 15)
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS
16. (a) A 1KHz signal of voice is sampled at 4KHz using 12 bit
PCM and a DM system. If 25 cycles of voice signals are
digitized find the following parameters and compare the
parameters of PCM and DM system.
(i) signaling rate (5)
(ii) bandwidth required (5)
(iii) Number of bits transmitted. (5)
(Or)
(b) Show that the signal to quantization noise power ratio of
a uniform quantizer in PCM system increases significantly
with increase in number of bits per sample. Also determine
the signal to quantization noise ratio of an audio signal
s (t ) = 3cos(2p *500t ) which is quantized using a 10 bit PCM.
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