U.S.N.
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru-560019
Autonomous Institute Affiliated to VTU
August 2024 Semester End Main Examinations
Programme: B.E. Semester: IV
Branch: Electronics and Communication Engineering Duration: 3 hrs.
Course Code: 23EC4PCPCS Max Marks: 100
Course: Principles of Communication Systems
Instructions: 1. Answer any FIVE full questions, choosing one full question from each unit.
2. Missing data, if any, may be suitably assumed.
Important Note: Completing your answers, compulsorily draw diagonal cross lines on the remaining blank pages. Revealing
UNIT – I CO PO Marks
1 a) Explain modulation and Justify the need for modulation. CO1 PO1 06
b) With necessary expressions, Analyse a single-tone AM signal. CO2 PO2 06
c) An AM transmitter radiates 9kW of power when the carrier is un- CO1 PO1 04
modulated and 10.125kW of power when the carrier is sinusoidal
modulated. Find the modulation index & Percentage modulation.
Now if another sine wave corresponding to 40% modulation is
of identification, appeal to evaluator will be treated as malpractice.
transmitted Simultaneously. Calculate total radiated power.
d) A given AM broadcast station transmits a total power of 5kW CO1 PO1 04
when the carrier is modulated by sinusoidal signal with a
modulation index of [Link] Carrier power and
Transmission Efficiency.
UNIT – II
2 a) Explain generation of DSB-SC signal with the help of balanced - - 08
modulator using diodes.
b) A carrier wave with amplitude 12V and frequency 10MHz is CO1 PO1 06
amplitude modulated to 50% level with a modulating frequency
1KHz, write down equation of the above wave and sketch the
waveform in frequency domain.
c) A 1000kHz carrier is simultaneously modulated with 300Hz, CO1 PO1 06
800Hz and 2kHz audio sine waves. Select the frequencies present
in the output.
OR
3 a) In coherent detection, if carrier applied is cos(2πfct+Φ). prove that CO2 PO2 10
there is a phase error in the output and output consist not only the
message signal but its Hilbert transform.
b) With the help of neat diagram show the spectrum of a TV signal CO1 PO1 05
Transmission using VSB .
c) Explain with a neat diagram the working of FDM transmitter and CO1 PO1 05
receiver.
UNIT - III
4 a) Differentiate phase modulation and frequency modulation. CO2 PO2 06
b) Identify the relationship between the instantaneous carrier CO1 PO1 06
frequency and modulating signal for FM.
c) Show that a FM signal has infinite sidebands, using the CO2 PO2 08
mathematical relations and draw the spectrum.
OR
5 a) Analyze the indirect method for generating wideband FM signal. CO2 PO2 10
b) A 107.6MHz carrier signal is frequency modulated by a 7kHz sine CO1 PO1 06
wave. The resultant FM signal has a frequency deviation of
50kHz. Find the carrier swing of the FM signal, the highest and
the lowest frequencies attained by the modulated signal,
modulation index of the FM wave.
c) Summarize the Bandwidth requirements for angle modulated CO2 PO2 04
waves.
UNIT – IV
6 a) Discuss about different sources of noise. A radio receiver with CO2 PO2 10
10KHz bandwidth has a noise figure of 30dB. Determine the
signal power required at the input of receiver to achieve input
SNR at 30dB.
b) Obtain the expression for figure of merit of AM system, with its CO1 PO1 10
block diagram.
UNIT – V
7 a) Explain the necessity of implementing PAM? CO1 PO1 05
b) A bandpass signal has the spectral range that extends from 20 kHz CO1 PO1 05
and 82 kHz. Find the acceptable range of sampling frequency.
c) Explain natural and flattop sampling [Link] the CO1 PO1 10
spectrum of sampled signal at (i) fs=2fm; (ii) fs>2fm and (iii) fs<2fm
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