ECE 306

HOMEWORK #1

SUMMER 2014

Dr. James Kang, Professor, ECE Department, Cal Poly Pomona

1. Find the minimum sampling rate to avoid spectrum overlap for the following signals.
(a) x(t) = 2cos(2100t) + 3cos(2200t) + 5cos(2500t).
(b) Speech signal with spectrum from 300 Hz to 3400 Hz.
(c) Audio signal with spectrum from 20Hz to 20kHz.
2. Consider a 4-bit (n = 4) ADC. The input voltage range is 10V m(nT) 10V. Find
the binary code for the following samples when offset binary code is used.
(a) m(kT) = 7.85V.
(b) m(kT) = 6.23V.
(c) m(kT) = 1.37V.
(d) m(kT) = +4.72V.
(e) m(kT) = +8.19V.
3. Consider a 4-bit (n = 4) ADC. The input voltage range is 10V m(nT) 10V. Find
the sign and magnitude, 1s complement, and 2s complement code for the following
samples
(a) m(kT) = 5.85V.
(b) m(kT) = 8.23V.
(c) m(kT) = 2.37V.
(d) m(kT) = +1.72V.
(e) m(kT) = +6.19V.
4. A message x(t) = 2 cos(210t) is uniformly sampled by an impulse train of period Ts
= 0.02 sec. Sketch
(a) x(t).
(b) the Fourier transform of x(t), X().
(c) the sampled waveform.
(d) the spectrum of the sampled waveform.
(e) the spectrum of the output of the ideal lowpass filter with bandwidth 1/2Ts and gain of
Ts when the sampled waveform is applied at the input.
(f) the waveform of the output of the ideal lowpass filter with bandwidth 1/2Ts and gain
of Ts when the sampled waveform is applied at the input.
5. Repeat Problem 4 when Ts = 1/15.
6. Repeat Problem 4 when Ts = 1/10.
7. Repeat Problem 4 when x(t) = 4 cos(220t) + 2 cos(210t) and Ts = 1/50.
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8. Repeat Problem 4 when x(t) = 4 cos(220t) + 2 cos(210t) and Ts = 1/30.

9. Repeat Problem 4 when x(t) = 2 cos(210t) is sampled uniformly by a rectangular
pulse train with duty cycle 1/4, amplitude 1, and period Ts = 1/50.
10. Determine the theoretical Nyquist sampling rate for the following signals.
(a) x(t) = 10 rect (t/0.001).
(b) x(t) = tri(t/0.001).
(c) x(t) = sinc(1000t).
(d) x(t) = sinc(2000t) + sinc2(1100t).
11. A signal x(t) = rect(t) is ideally sampled at a rate of 5 samples/s.
(a) What is the Nyquist sampling rate for x(t)?
(b) Plot the sampled waveform in the time domain.
(c) Plot the spectrum of the sampled waveform.
(d) Is it possible to recover x(t) by passing the sampled waveform through an ideal
lowpass filter?
12. A signal x(t) = sinc(t) is sampled by a rectangular pulse train with amplitude 1, pulse
width 0.25 s, and period 0.5 s.
(a) What is the Nyquist sampling rate for x(t)?
(b) Sketch the sampled waveform in the time domain.
(c) Plot the spectrum of the sampled waveform.
(d) Is it possible to recover x(t) by passing the sampled waveform through an ideal
lowpass filter?
13. A signal x(t) = 2 cos(210t) + cos(220t) is ideally sampled at a rate of 40
samples/s.
(a) Plot x(t) and the Fourier transform of x(t).
(b) Find the sampled waveform and plot it.
(c) Find and plot the Fourier transform of the sampled waveform.
(d) If the sampled waveform is applied to an ideal lowpass filter with bandwidth 21 Hz,
what is the output of the filter in the time domain?
(e) If the sampled waveform is applied to an ideal lowpass filter with bandwidth 19 Hz,
what is the output of the filter in the time domain?
14. Determine the Nyquist sampling rate for the following signals.
(a) An audio signal with bandwidth 18 kHz.
(b) m(t) = 10 rect(t/10-5)
(c) m(t) = 6000 sinc2(6000t) + 11000 sinc(11000t)

(d) A periodic sawtooth wave with amplitude 1 and period 1 ms.

(e)
100

m( t ) = cos(2 100 nt )
n =1

(f) m(t) = sinc2(1500t)

15. Let m1(t) = 500 sinc2(500t)
p1 (t ) =

p 2 (t ) =

( t 0.001k )

k =

t 0.001k
rect

0.00025
k =

Determine and sketch the spectrum of

(a) x1(t) = m1(t) p1(t)
(b) x2(t) = m1(t) p2(t)
16. A message
m(t) = 5 cos(2 200t) + cos(2 500t)
is sampled by an impulse train x(t) given by=
x (t )

t 800 .

k =

(a) Determine the Fourier transform of m(t) and plot it.

(b) What is the Nyquist sampling rate for m(t)?
(c) Let the sampled waveform be ms(t) = m(t) x(t). Sketch Ms(f) for 1 kHz f 1 kHz.
(d) The sampled waveform ms(t) is applied to an ideal lowpass filter with characteristic
H(f) shown below. Determine the filter output y(t) in the time domain.
H(f)
1

400

400

f (Hz)