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Quantization Noise

GATE Electronics & Communication · Analog and Digital Circuits - Data Converters · 1987-2025

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2025 PYQ

A 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) has a sampling frequency of 1 MHz and a full scale voltage of 3.3 V . For an input sinusoidal signal with frequency 500 kHz , the maximum...

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2024 Q46

A full scale sinusoidal signal is applied to a 10-bit ADC. The fundamental signal component in the ADC output has a normalized power of 1 W, and the total noise and distortion norm...

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2023 PYQ

The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of an ADC with a full-scale sinusoidal input is given to be 61.96 dB. The resolution of the ADC is __________ bits (rounded off to the nearest integ...

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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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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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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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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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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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