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PCM

GATE Electronics & Communication · Digital Modulation · 1987-2024

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2024 PYQ

Let $X(t) = A\cos(2\pi f_0 t+\theta)$ be a random process, where amplitude $A$ and phase $\theta$ are independent of each other, and are uniformly distributed in the intervals $[-2...

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2021 PYQ

A message signal having peak-to-peak value of 2 V , root mean square value of 0.1 V and bandwidth of 5 kHz is sampled and fed to a pulse code modulation (PCM) system that uses a un...

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2017 PYQ

A sinusoidal message signal is converted to a PCM signal using a uniform quantizer. The required signal to quantization noise ratio (SQNR) at the output of the quantizer is 40dB. T...

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2016 PYQ

A speech signal is sampled at 8 kHz and encoded into PCM format using 8 bits/sample. The PCM data is transmitted through a baseband channel via 4-level PAM. The minimum bandwidth (...

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2015 PYQ

A sinusoidal signal of amplitude A is quantized by a uniform quantizer. Assume that the signal utilizes all the representation levels of the quantizer. If the signal to quantizatio...

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2014 PYQ

In a PCA system, the signal $$m(t) = \{ \sin (100\,\pi \,t)\, + \cos (100\,\pi \,t\} $$ V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The samples are processed by a uniform quantizer with step...

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2011 PYQ

An analog signal is band-limited to 4kHz. sampled at the Nyquist rate and the samples are quantized into 4 levels. The quantized levels are assumed to be independent and equally pr...

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2008 PYQ

A speech signal, band limited to 4 kHz and peak voltage varying between + 5V and - 5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits. If the bit...

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2008 PYQ

A speech signal, band limited to 4 kHz and peak voltage varying between + 5V and - 5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits. Assuming t...

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2008 PYQ

A speech signal, band limited to 4kHz and peak voltage varying between +5V and -5V is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is quantized and represented by 8 bits. The number of...

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2005 PYQ

A symmetric three-level midtread quantizer is to be designed assuming equiprobable occurrence of all quantization levels. The quantization noise power for the quantization region b...

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2004 PYQ

Three analog signals, having bandwidths 1200 Hz, 600 Hz and 600 Hz are sampled at their respective Nyquist rates, enocodes with 12 bit words, and time division multiplexed. The bit...

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2004 PYQ

In a PCM system, if the code word length is increased from 6 to 8 bits, the signal to quantization noise ratio improves by the factor

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2003 PYQ

A sinusoidal signal with peak-to-peak amplitude of 1.536V is quantized into 128 levels using a mid-rise uniform quantizer. The quantization-noise power is

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2003 PYQ

A signal is sampled at 8 KHz and is quantized using 8-bit uniform quantizer. Assuming $$SN{R_q}$$ for a sinusoidal signal, the correct statement for PCM signal with a bit rate of R...

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1999 PYQ

The peak-to-peak input to an 8-bit PCM coder is 2 volts . The signal power - to -quantization noise power ratio (in dB) for an input of 0.5 $$\cos \left( {{\omega _m}t} \right)$$ i...

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1998 PYQ

In a PCM system with uniform quantization, increasing the number of bits from 8 to 9 will reduce the quantization noise power by a factor of

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1998 PYQ

Compression in PCM refers to relative compression of

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1996 PYQ

The number of bits in a binary PCM system is increased from n to n+1. As a result, the signal to quantization noise ratio will improve by a factor

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1995 PYQ

The signal to quantization noise ratio in an n-bit PCM system

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1995 PYQ

If the number of bits per sample in a PCM system is increased from n to n+1, the improvement in signal-to-quantization noise ratio will be

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1994 PYQ

The bandwidth required for the transmission of a PCM signal increases by a factor of ________ when the number of quantization levels is increased from 4 to 64.

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1989 PYQ

A signal of bandwidth 3.5 kHz has peak-to-peak and rms amplitudes of 4 V and 0.2 V, respectively. This signal is passed through a linear PCM coder and then transmitted over a chann...

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1988 PYQ

A signal having uniformly distributed amplitude in the interval ( -V, +V ) is to be encoded using PCM with uniform quantization. The signal - to - quantizing noise ratio is determi...

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1987 PYQ

Companding in PCM systems leads to improved signal - to - quantization noise ratio. This improvement is for

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