THE INTERNATINONAL UNIVERSITY (IU) VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HCMC

Final Examination
Date: 26/05/2010 Duration: 120 minutes It is allowed to use material in the exam
SUBJECT: Communication

System Design
Lecturer: Dr. Hng Tun Signature:

Dean of School of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering Signature:

Full name: Dr. Hng Tun

Problem 1 (70 pts)

Consider a RF oscillator shown in Figure 1. It is assumed that L1 = 10 H and C3 = 50 pF, C1 = C2 = 500 pF (C3 is much smaller than C1 and C2).

Figure 1
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a. Find the oscillating frequency of the oscillator. (10 pts) b. Determine the transfer function of the feedback network . (10 pts) c. Based on the Barkhausen criterion, find the gain a of the amplifier. (10 pts) d. In this question, we replace the capacitor C3 with a varicap diode Cv shown in Figure 2. Assume that the voltage across the R3 can be omitted. The relation between capacitance Cv and bias voltage V for the varicap diode is given in Table 1. Find the minimum and maximum oscillating frequencies corresponding to bias voltages Vmin and Vmax in the Table 1. (20 pts)

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Table 1 Cv (pF) 60 50 40 30 20 V (Volt) Vmin = 2 2.5 3.0 3.5 Vmax = 4

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Consider a direct FM modulator using the circuit in Figure 3. Assumed that the DC voltage V = 2.5 V. The data signal x(t) has the waveform x(t) = 0.5 cos (2fmt). e. When x(t) = 0, determine the center frequency (carrier frequency) of the FM signal. (10 pts) f. When x(t) 0. Find the maximum and minimum frequencies at the output of FM modulator. (10 pts) Hint: Using the voltage values and varicap capacitances given in Table 1, L1 = 10 H, C3 = 50 pF, and C1 = C2 = 500 pF.

Figure 3

Problem 2 (15 pts)

Consider the Hartley image-reject mixer shown in Figure 4. Assumed that the RF signal is cosine with frequency fRF, the image frequency signal is also a cosine with frequency fIM. Both RF signal and image signal appear at the RF input of the Hartley image-reject mixer. Find the signal waveforms at points 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Figure 4. Do the Hartley image-reject mixer can automatically reject the image frequency signal?

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Figure 4

Problem 3 (15 pts)

Draw block diagrams of frequency synthesizers (using PLL and mixer) producing the output frequencies: a. fo = Nfr1, where fr1 is reference frequency from crystal oscillator and N is an integer. b. fo = (N/M)fr, where fr is reference frequency from crystal oscillator and N, M are integers. c. fo = (N/M)fr1 + fr2, where fr1 and fr2 are reference frequencies from crystal oscillators and N, M are integers.

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