Reg. No.

2 1 2 0
SKR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI - 600123.
DEPARTMENT OF
INTERNAL TEST 1-QUESTION BANK
Subject code: EC6501 Date: 17.07.2018
Subject Title: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION Time : 9.30 -11.30
Branch / Year: ECE / III Max. Marks: 65
QP CODE: 71067
PART-A (20×2 = 40 Marks)
1. What is meant by aliasing effect?
2. State Sampling theorem?
3. What is meant by quantization?
4. What is the SNR of PCM system if number of quantization levels is 28?
5. Define quantization error.
6. Discuss the need for non-uniform quantization of speech signal.
7. Define quantization noise.
8. Why is pre-filtering done before sampling?
9. Compare uniform and non-uniform quantization.
10. State any two non-uniform quantization rules.
11. Write the two fold effects of quantization process.
12. Mention two merits of DPCM.
13. What is the main difference in DPCM and DM?
14. Mention the use of adaptive quantizer in adaptive digital waveform coding schemes.
15. What is the advantage of delta modulation over PCM?
16. What are the two types of quantization errors occur in DM?
17. State the advantages of ADM over DM.
18. What is meant by temporal waveform coding?
19. What is Companding?
20. What is adaptive sub-band coding?

PART-B -7 QUESTIONS(13 MARKS)

21. Describe the process of sampling and how the message signal is reconstructed from its samples.
Also illustrate the effect of aliasing with neat sketch.

22. Describe PCM waveform coder and decoder with neat sketch and list the merits compared with
analog coders?

23. i) Describe and illustrate delta modulation and its quantization error.
ii) Explain how adaptive delta modulation performs better and gains more SNR than delta
modulation.

24. Explain with block diagram linear predictive coder and decoder. State its advantages and is
advantages.

25. Derive an expression for normalized power of quantization error in PCM system having uniform
quantization.

26. What is PAM? Explain TDM process with necessary diagrams.

27. Explain the working of DPCM and hence the expression for SNR.
 PART-C -3 QUESTIONS (15 MARKS)

28. A delta modulator system is designed to operate at five times the Nyquist rate for a signal with
3 KHz bandwidth. Determine the maximum amplitude of a 2 KHz input sinusoid for which the
delta modulator does not have sloap overload. Quantizing step is 250 mV. Derive the formula
that you use.

29. A binary channel with bit rate of 56 kbps is available for uniform PCM voice channel transmission
having signal bandwidth of 3.4 kHz. Calculate:
i) Sampling frequency ii) Number of bits per sample
iii) Quantization levels with step size iv) Transmission bandwidth for two channels
v) Signal to Noise ratio

30. The signal g(t) = 10 cos(20πt) cos(200πt) is sampled at the rate of 250 samples per second.
(a) Determine the spectrum of the resulting sampled signal.
(b) Specify the cut-off frequency of the ideal reconstruction filter so as to recover g(t) from its
sampled version.
(c) What is the Nyquist rate for g(t).
(d) Explain the reconstruction process of a message from its samples.