VINAYAKA MISSIONS UNIVERSITY

V.M.K.V ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SALEM

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Semester: IV Year: II
DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

QUESTION BANK

UNIT I
PART A
1. What is Digital Signal Processing?
2. List any four applications of DSP?
3. Define DFT.
4. What is circular convolution?
5. State shifting property of DFT.
6. What is zero padding?
7. What is DIT radix-2 FFT?
8. Why FFT is needed?
9. Compare the DIT and DIF radix-2 FFT.
10. Draw the basic flow graph of DIT radix-2 FFT.

PART B
1.i) Find the circular convolution of the two sequences x1(n) = (1, 2, 2, 1) and
x2 (n) =(1,2,3,1) using concentric circle method.
ii) Find the circular convolution of the two sequences x1(n) = (1, 2, 2, 1) and
x2 (n) =(1,2,3,1) using matrices method
2 i) Find the circular convolution of the two sequences x1(n) = (2, 1, 2, 1) and
x2 (n) =(1,2,3,4) using DFT and IDFT method
ii) Find the circular convolution of the two sequences x1(n) = (2, 1, 2, 1) and
x2 (n) =(1,2,3,4) using tabular array method.
3. An 8 point sequence is given by x(n)=(2,1,1,2,1,1,1,1) compute 8 point DFT of x(n) by
radix-2 DIT-FFT
4. An 8 point sequence is given by x(n)=(2,1,1,2,1,1,1,1) compute 8 point DFT of x(n) by
radix-2 DIF-FFT
5.An 8 point sequence is given by x(n)=(2,2,0,2,1,1,0,1) compute 8 point DFT of x(n) by
radix-4 DIT-FFT
 UNIT II
PART A

1. Compare IIR and FIR filter.

2. What is main objective of impulse invariant method?
3. What is bilinear transformation?
4. Compare the digital and analog filter.
5. What is impulse invariant transformation?
6. Mention the important features of IIR filters.
7. Write the impulse invariant transform used to transform complex conjugate poles.
8. How bilinear transformation is performed?
9. Write the transfer function of unnormalized Butterworth low pass filter.
10. Write the transfer function of unnormalized chebyshev low pass filter.

PART B

1) Convert the analog filter with transfer function H(s) into digital filter using bilinear
transformation. I
2s s3
i) H(s) = 2 ii) H(s) =
s + 0.2 s + 1 ( s +1)( s 2 + s +1)

2. Convert the analog filter with system transfer function

(S+0.1)
H(s) = -------------
(S+0.1)2+9
into a digital IIR filter by means of the impulse invariance technique.

3. Convert the analog filter with system transfer function

2 0.0325
i) H(s) = ii) H(s) =
( s +1)( s + 2) ( s + 0.25 ) 2 + (0.0325 ) 2
Into a digital filter by means of the impulse invariance technique. If a) T= 1 sec and b) T=
0.1 sec.

4. i)Obtain the Direct form–I realizations of the LTI system governed by the equation
y(n)= 0.5y(n-1)-0.25 y(n-2)+x(n)+3x(n-1)
ii) Determine the direct form II realizations for the following system
y(n)= - 0.1y(n-1)+0.72y(n-2)+0.7x(n)-0.252x(n-2)
5. Design a Butterworth IIR filter with the following specifications

0.8 ≤ |H (ω)| ≤ 1.0 0 ≤ ω ≤ 0.2π

|H (ω)| ≤ 0.2 0.32π ≤ ω ≤ π

Using impulse invariant method.

 UNIT III

PART A

1. What are the types of digital filter according to their impulse response?
2. How phase distortion and delay distortion are introduced?
3. Write the steps involved in FIR filter design.
4. What are the advantages of FIR filter?
5. What are the disadvantages of FIR filter?
6. Write the procedure for designing FIR filter using windows.
7. What is Gibb’s phenomenon?
8. List the well known design technique for linear phase FIR filter design?
9. Write the characteristic features of rectangular window.
10. Write the expression for Kaiser window function.

PART B

1. Design a low pass filter using rectangular window by taking 9 samples of w (n) and with a
cutoff frequency of 1.2 radians/sec.
2. Determine the coefficients of a linear phase FIR filter of length M=15 has a symmetric
unit sample response and a frequency response that satisfies the condition.

H (2π k/15) = {1 ; for k=0, 1, 2, 3

0 ; for k=4, 5, 6, 7}
3. Design a band stop filter to reject frequencies in the 1 to 2 rad/sec using rectangular
window, with N=7
4. Determine the coefficients of a linear phase FIR filter of length N=15 which has a
symmetric unit sample response that satisfies the conditions
H (2π k/15) = {1 ; for k=0, 1, 2, 3
0.4 ; for k=4
0 ; for k=5, 6, 7}
5. (i) Draw the direct form structure of the FIR system described by the transfer function
H (Z) =1+1/2z-1+3/4z-2+1/4z-3+1/2z-4+1/8z-5
(ii) Realize the following system with minimum number of multipliers
H (Z) =1/4+1/2z-1+3/4z-2+1/2z-3+1/4z-4
 UNIT-IV

PARTA

1. What is meant by finite word length effects in digital filters?

2. What are the different formats of fixed point representation?
3. Compare the fixed point and floating point number representations.
4. What are the advantages of floating point arithmetic?
5. What is truncation?
6. What is rounding?
7. What are the three quantization errors due to finite word length registers in digital
filters?
8. What are limit cycles?
9. What is zero input limit cycle?
10. What is dead band?

PART B

1. Briefly explain finite word length effect in digital filters?

2. For the digital network shown in figure find H(z) and scale factor S 0 to avoid
overflow in register A1

x(n) So A1 w(n) 0.245 y(n)

0.245
0.509

w(n-1)

3. For the recursive filter shown in figure the input x(n) has a peak value of 10V,
represented by 6 bits. Compute the variance of output due to A/D conversion process?

x(n) y1(n)

Z-1
0.93

4. (i) Discuss on fixed point representation?

(ii) Explain signal scaling in finite word length effects?
5. Write short notes on
i) Channel vocoder ii) Homomorphic vocoder
 UNIT V

PART A

1. What are the classification digital signal processors?

2. What are the factors that influence selection of DSPs?
3. What is pipelining?
4. What is pipeline depth?
5. What are the different stages in pipelining?
6. What are the different buses of TMS320C5x?
7. What is the function of read bus?
8. What are the arithmetic instructions of C5x?
9. What are the logical instructions of C5x?
10. What are the shift instructions of C5x?

PART B

1) i) With a suitable diagram describe the functions of ALU unit of TMS320C54x.

ii) Explain the operation of multiplier/adder unit of TMS320C54x.
2) Draw and explain the architecture of TMS320C50?
3) Write short notes on
Harvard architecture
MAC
4) Explain the different addressing modes of TMS320C50?
5) Explain the different application of PDSPs?