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Laboratory Report
Activity No.3

Signal to Noise Ratio

&
Eye Diagram

In partial fulfillment for the course

ECE 106.1 (Digital Communications Laboratory)

Submitted by:
IRVEN CARL BARAL
DENNIS MICHAEL DE GUZMAN
XAVIER KENT PINOTE
KYETH ANTHONY TANO

Submitted to:
PROF. ANGILINE L. TEATRO
Wideband Electrical Noise (-20dB)

Wideband Electrical Noise (-6dB)

Wideband Electrical Noise (0dB)

Question 1
Based on its appearance, what type of noise is the Noise Generator module modelling?
Digital noise generation.

Question 2
Which of the Noise Generator’s outputs provides the most amount of noise?
At 0dB of the noise generator’s output.
Baseband LPF’s output signal (-20dB & -6db)

Baseband LPF’s output signal (0dB)

The digital signal becomes increasingly distorted as the noise increases.

Question 3
Why doesn’t the digital data signal look as “noisy” now as it did before?
The digital data signal doesn’t look “noisy” since the additional block of baseband LPF
makes the signal and noise being band limited, or to filter out the high frequencies.

Signal Voltage
1.551V
Noise Voltage
38.44mV
Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
40.35
SNR (in decibels)
32.12dB
Signal plus noise voltage
1.58944V
Alternate SNR
41.35
Alternate SNR (in decibels)
32.33dB
Table 1

Question 4
What is the signal-to-noise ratio (the ratio not the decibel) actually telling you?
The SNR tells us that the calculated SNRs in this experiment is measured due to the level of a
desired signal to the level of the background noise.
Question 5
Why are the two signal-to-noise ratios almost identical even though they’ve been calculated
in a different way?
They are almost identical since the noise voltage is too little for it to compare the signal
voltage. Also, when we calculate the error between the two ratios, we get the value of 2.45%,
which means that they are almost identical.
Question 6
What would you expect to happen to the signal-to-noise ratio figures if the Noise Generator
module’s -6dB or 0dB outputs are used?
The higher the Noise Generator’s output, the lower the SNR.
Question 7
What other change to the signal-to-noise figures would you expect to see if you used the
Noise Generator module’s other outputs?
The lower the Noise Generator’s output, the better the digital signal’s output since the SNR
gets higher.