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GATE Electronics & Communication · Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) - SNR and Resolution · 1990-2025

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2025 Q44

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 S...

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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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2024 Q57

Let X (t) = A cos(2π f₀t+θ) be a random process, where amplitude A and phase θ are independent of each other, and are uniformly distributed in the intervals [-2,2] and [0,2π], resp...

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2024 PYQ

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 Q31

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 intege...

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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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2016 PYQ

An analog pulse s(t) is transmitted over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The received signal is r(t) = s(t) + n(t), where n(t) is additive white Gaussian noise wit...

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2009 PYQ

A communication channel with AWGN operating at a signal to noise ratio SNR > > 1 and band width B has capacity $${{C_1}}$$ . If the SNR is doubled keeping B constant, the resulting...

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2004 PYQ

A 1 mW video signal having a bandwidth of 100 MHz is transmitted to a receiver through a cable that has 40 dB loss. If the effective one-sided noise spectral density at the receive...

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2003 PYQ

If E b , the energy per bit of a binary digital signal, is 10 -5 watt-sec and the one-sided power spectral density of the white noise, N 0 = 10 -6 W/Hz, then the output SNR of the...

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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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1993 PYQ

Negative feedback in Amplifiers.

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1990 PYQ

In a BPSK signal detector, the local oscillator has a fixed phase error of 20 0 . This phase error deteriorates the SNR at the output by a factor of

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