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Official PYQ2003CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The input to a linear delta modulator having a step-size Δ=0.628\Delta=0.628 is a sine wave with frequency fmf m and peak amplitude EmE_{m}. If the sampling frequency fs=40  kHzf_{s}=40 \; \mathrm{kH} \mathrm{z}, the combination of the sine-wave frequency and the peak amplitude, where slope overload will take place is
Official PYQ2003CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
If S\text{S} represents the carrier synchronization at the receiver and ρ\rho represents the bandwidth efficiency, then the correct statement for the coherent binary PSK\text{PSK} is
Official PYQ2002CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
For a bit-rate of 8  kbps8 \; \mathrm{kbps}, the best possible values of the transmitted frequencies in a coherent binary FSK system are
Official PYQ2000CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
In a digital communication system employing Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)\text{(FSK)}, the 00 and 11 bit are represented by sine waves of 10  kHz10 \; \mathrm{kHz} and 25  kHz25 \; \mathrm{kHz} respectively. These waveforms will be orthogonal for a bit interval of
Official PYQ1999CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Four independent messages have bandwidths of 100 Hz,200 Hz100 \mathrm{~Hz}, 200 \mathrm{~Hz}, and 400 Hz400 \mathrm{~Hz}, respectively. Each is sampled at the Nyquist rate, and the samples are time division multiplexed (TDM\text{TDM}) and transmitted. The transmitted sample rate (in Hz\mathrm{Hz} ) is
Official PYQ1999CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The input to a matched filter is given by s(t)={100sin⁡(2π×106t)0<1<10−4secotherwises(t) = \left\{\begin{matrix} 10\\ 0 \end{matrix}\right. \begin{array}{ll} \sin \left(2 \pi \times 10^{6} t\right) & 0<1<10^{-4} \mathrm{sec} \\ & \text{otherwise} \end{array} The peak amplitude of the filter output is
Official PYQ1999CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The peak-to-peak input to an 88-bit PCM\text{PCM} coder is 22 volts. The signal power-to-quantization noise power ratio (in dBd\text{B}) for an input of 0.5cos⁡(ωmt)0.5 \cos \left(\omega_{m} t\right) is
Official PYQ1998CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
For a given data rate, the bandwidth Bp\mathrm{B}_{p} of a BPSK\text{BPSK} signal and the bandwidth B0\text{B}_{0} of the OOK\mathrm{OOK} signal are related as
Official PYQ1998CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
Compression in PCM\text{PCM} refers to relative compression of
Official PYQ1998CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
In a PCM\text{PCM} system with uniform quantisation, increasing the number of bits from 88 to 99 will reduce the quantisation noise power by a factor of
Official PYQ1997CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The line code that has zero dc\text{dc} component for pulse transmission of random binary data is
Official PYQ1997CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A communication channel has first-order low pass transfer function. The channel is used to transmit pulses at a symbol rate greater than the half-power frequency of the low pass function. Which of the network shown in the figure is can be used to equalise the received pulses?
Official PYQ1996CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The number of bits in a binary PCM\mathrm{PCM} system is increased from nn to n+1n+1. As a result, the signal to quantization noise ratio will improve by a factor
Official PYQ1995CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
A PAM\text{PAM} signal can be detected by using
Official PYQ1993CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsNAT · 1 mark
A pulse train with a frequency of 1  MHz1 \; \mathrm{MHz} is counted using a modulo 10241024 ripple-counter built with JK\text{JK} flip flops. For proper operation of the counter, the maximum permissible propagation delay per flip flop stage is …nSec\dots n \mathrm{Sec}.
Official PYQ1992CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMSQ · 1 mark
Coherent demodulation of FSK\text{FSK} signal can be effected using
Official PYQ1992CommunicationsDigital CommunicationsMCQ · 1 mark
The bit stream 0100101001 is differentially encoded using ’Delay and Ex OR’\text{'Delay and Ex OR'} scheme for DPSK\text{DPSK} transmission. Assuming the reference bit as a ′1′'1' and assigning phases of ′0′'0' and π\pi for 11’s and 00’s respectively, in the encoded sequence, the transmitted phase sequence becomes