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III B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Explain the basic principles of sampling, and distinguish between ideal sam-
pling and practical sampling. [8]
(b) A band pass signal has a centre frequency fo and extends from fo - 5 KHz to
f0 + 5 KHz. It is sampled at a rate of fs = 25 KHz. As f o varies from 5 KHz
to 50 KHz, find the ranges of fo for which the sampling rate is adequate. [8]

2. (a) Explain the method of generation and detection of PPM signals with neat
sketches. [10]
(b) Compare the characteristics of PWM and PPM signals. [3]
(c) Which analog pulse modulation can be termed as analogous to linear CW
modulation and why ? [3]

3. (a) Explain how the residual effect of the channel is responsible for Inter Symbol
Interference (ISI). [8]
(b) Explain about three tap preset equalizer. [8]

4. (a) Give the block diagram of a system used to derive a clock-signal from the
received waveform and explain its operation. [8]
(b) Compare the performance of bi-polar coding, twinned binary coding in terms
of d.c component, bandwidth required and clock recovery? [8]

5. (a) Draw the block diagram of PCM Generator and explain each block.
(b) Determine the Transmission Bandwidth in PCM. [8+8]

6. In a single-integration DM system, the voice signal is sampled at a rate of 64kHz.The

maximum signal amplitude is Amax=1.

(a) Determine the minimum value of the step size σ to avoid slope over load error.
(b) Determine the granular noise power if the voice signals bandwidth is 3.5 kHz.
(c) Assuming that the voice signal is sinusoidal, determine output signal power
and SNR
(d) Determine the minimum transmission bandwidth. [4+4+4+4]

7. (a) Write down the modulation waveforms for transmitting binary information
over baseband channels, for the following modulation schemes.
i. ASK

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ii. FSK
iii. PSK and
iv. Baseband pulse shaping followed by DSB modulation.
what are the advantages and disadvantages of digital modulation schemes?
(b) Discuss base band transmission of M-ary data. [6+10]

8. (a) Explain how the channel coding reduces the probability of error. [8]
(b) Find the code word for data word 1110 in a (7,4) cyclic code using the generator
polynomial g(x)=1+x2 +x3 using encoder. [8]

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