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Lab 1 - Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation

This document discusses amplitude modulation and demodulation. It provides theory on how AM works and defines key terms like modulation index. Experiments are described to generate AM waves, determine modulation percentage, and demodulate signals using an envelope detector both in simulation and practice.

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Lab 1 - Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation

This document discusses amplitude modulation and demodulation. It provides theory on how AM works and defines key terms like modulation index. Experiments are described to generate AM waves, determine modulation percentage, and demodulate signals using an envelope detector both in simulation and practice.

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UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM

College of Information and Communications Technologies

Department of Electronics and Telecommunications


Engineering

Course: TE331 Principles of Analogue Telecommunications


LABORATORY EXPERIMENT ONE

Amplitude Modulation & Demodulation

Aim:

1. To generate amplitude modulated wave and determine the percentage modulation.

2. To demodulate the modulated wave using envelope detector.

Theory:

Amplitude Modulation is defined as a process in which the amplitude of the carrier wave c(t) is
varied linearly with the instantaneous amplitude of the message signal m(t).The standard form
of an amplitude modulated (AM) wave is defined by

Where a K is a constant called the amplitude sensitivity of the modulator.

The demodulation circuit is used to recover the message signal from the incoming AM wave at
the receiver. An envelope detector is a simple and yet highly effective device that is well suited
for the demodulation of AM wave, for which the percentage modulation is less than 100%.Ideally,
an envelope detector produces an output signal that follows the envelop of the input signal wave
form exactly; hence, the name. Some version of this circuit is used in almost all commercial AM
radio receivers.

The Modulation Index is defined as,


Where Emax and Emin are the maximum and minimum amplitudes of the modulated wave.

Part I

(a) Amplitude Modulation


Design your own experiment to verify the principles of Amplitude modulation and simulate with
Matlab

(b) Amplitude Demodulation

Use envelop detector to demodulate the AM signal obtained in (a)

Part II

Simulation

Using circuit diagram given, Simulate Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation using any circuit
simulator, e.g Circuit Maker, Proteus, etc. Plot all graphs i.e Modulating signal, carrier signal and
modulated signal.

Part III

Practical

Procedure

(i) Construct the circuit as per circuit diagram shown in figure 1a.
(ii) Switch on + 12 volts VCC supply
(iii) Apply sinusoidal signal of 1 KHz frequency and amplitude 2 Vp-p as modulating signal, and
carrier signal of frequency 10 KHz and amplitude 12 Vp-p.
(iv) Now slowly increase the amplitude of the modulating signal up to 7V and note down
values of Emax and Emin.
(v) Calculate modulation index using equation above
(vi) Repeat step (v) by varying frequency of the modulating signal.
(vii) Plot the graphs: Modulation index vs Amplitude & Frequency
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(viii) Find the value of R from fm = 2𝜋𝑅𝐶 taking C = 0.01μF

(ix) Connect the circuit diagram as shown in Fig.2.


(x) Feed the AM wave to the demodulator circuit and observe the output
(xi) Note down frequency and amplitude of the demodulated output waveform.
(xii) Draw the demodulated wave form, m=1

Figure 1: Amplitude Modulation


Figure 2: AM demodulation

CALCULATION:

Power of Carrier Signal, Pc = Ac²/2

Power of Side Band, Ps = Pc[1+ ma²/2]

Total power, P = Pc + Ps

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