VICKRAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ENATHI

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

INTERNAL EXAM- I
E6501 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
YEAR/ SEMESTER : II/III TOTAL MARKS : 100
DATE : 07.08.2017 DURATION : 3Hrs

PART A 10*2=20
1. State sampling theorem (BT1,CO1)
2. What is meant by aliasing effect? (BT2,CO1)
3. State any two non-uniform quantization rules (BT3,CO1)
4. Write the two fold effects of quantization process (BT1,CO1)
5. What are the two types of quantization in delta modulation errors that (BT1,CO2)
occur in delta modulation?
6. List any four speech encoding methods (BT1,CO2)
7. Define APF and APB. (BT4,CO2)
8. What are the classifications of line codes? (BT2,CO2)
9. What is Manchester code? Draw the Manchester format for the data stream (BT3,CO3)
10110?
10. What is meant by transparency with respect to line codes? (BT2,CO3)
PART B 5*13=65
11. (a)Explain the block diagram of digital communication systems. (5) (BT1,CO1)
(b)Highlight the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication
over analog communication(4)
(c)Define Nyquist rate and Nyquist interval with suitable equations. (4)
12. (a)State and prove sampling theorem for band limited signals. (8) (BT1,CO1)
(b)What is antialiasing filter? (2)
(c)Explain the practical limitations of sampling theorem and
reconstruction. (3)
13. (a)Derive an expression for normalized power of quantization error in (BT2,CO2)
PCM systems.(8)
(b)Derive an expression for quantization error and signal to quantization
noise ratio.(5)
14. (a)Explain how adaptive delta modulation performs better and gains more (BT3,CO2)
SNR the delta modulation.
(b)Explain the model based encoding Technique.(5)
15. (a)Obtain the working of differentiate PCM and hence derive the (BT3,CO2)
explanation for signal to noise ratio.
(b)Explain time Division Multiplexing with neat block diagram.
PART C 15*1=15
16. The bandwidth of TV video plus audio signal is 4.5MHz. If the signal is (BT4,CO1)
converted to PCM bit stream with 1024 quantization levels. Determine the
number of bits/sec generated by the PCM system. Assume that the signal is
sampled at the rate of 20% above Nyquist rate.

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Note:BT1-Remember,BT2-Understand,BT3-Apply,BT4-Analysis,BT5-Evaluate,BT6-Create