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EENG484 Midterm Sample

This document contains a 7 question exam for a biomedical engineering course on acquisition and microcontrollers. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions that assess understanding of topics like analog to digital converters, microcontroller architecture, signal conditioning, sampling theory, and interfacing analog sensors. The exam is worth a total of 100 points and covers material relevant to acquiring, processing, and digitizing biomedical signals.

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EENG484 Midterm Sample

This document contains a 7 question exam for a biomedical engineering course on acquisition and microcontrollers. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions that assess understanding of topics like analog to digital converters, microcontroller architecture, signal conditioning, sampling theory, and interfacing analog sensors. The exam is worth a total of 100 points and covers material relevant to acquiring, processing, and digitizing biomedical signals.

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School of Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering


Course: EENG484 - Acquisition and Microcontrollers in Biomedical Engineering

Time: 75 minutes

Student Name: ______________________________Student ID: _______________Section:____

There are seven questions in the booklet each has several parts, please answer all parts of the seven
questions to the best of your ability.

Marking Scheme

Questions Weight Mark


Question I 10
Question II 20
Question III 15
Question IV 10
Question V 10
Question VI 15
Question VII 20
Total 100

1. This booklet contains 9 pages including this one. Make sure all these pages are attached.
2. Closed book examination.
3. Do not take the staple out. The exam booklet must remain intact.
4. Cheating penalty will be an “F” grade on the exam.
5. Programmable calculators are allowed.
6. Mobile phones/devices are to be turned off and stowed away. Good Work!

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QUESTION I (10 points)
Mark the right answer for the following questions:
1- The following circuit represent a ………………..with cut off frequency of …………..:

a. Active low pass filter; 0.05 kHz.


b. Passive low pass filter; 48.228 kHz.
c. Active high pass filter; 48.228 kHz.
d. Passive high pass filter; 0.05 kHz.

2- According to the following LED characteristics; how much should be the series resistor when the
supply voltage is 9 VDC?

Semiconductor material Wavelength Color VF at 20 mA


GaAsP:N 585-595nm Yellow 2.2 V

a. 340 Ω.
b. 330 Ω.
c. 2.8 kΩ.
d. 2 kΩ.

3- The “ address and data buses” are of different sizes and can be accessed simultaneously in the PIC16
microcontroller of:
a. Harvard architecture
b. Von Neumann architecture
c. Both architectures
d. None of the above

4- The “ROM” is a non-volatile memory type in which the data is stored temporally while the power is
ON.
a. True
b. False

5- A 12-bit address bus carries:


a. 1024 memory locations
b. 256 memory locations
c. 4096 memory locations
d. 512 memory locations

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QUESTION II (20 points: 5 points each)

1- In a data acquisition system, the following circuit is placed before the ADC. What is the role of this
circuit?

2- List 4 functions that can be a part of the signal conditioning circuit design?

3- What is the main difference between “Digital ramp ADC” and “Successive Approximation ADC”?
List the electronic components in each ADC (without drawing).

4- The audible sound is known to be between [20 Hz-20 kHz]. If you are recording a song on a digital
audio CD. What should be the sampling rate of the audio CD?

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QUESTION III: (15 points) Microcontroller

1- What does ALU stand for? What is its function?

2- What is the function of the interrupt in PIC16 microcontroller?

3- What is the stack memory? How many registers are in the stack memory of the PIC16
microcontroller?

4- Write a 2 line code that set port A as follows (assume that you are working in Bank1):

RA0 INPUT
RA1 OUTPUT
RA2 OUTPUT
RA3 OUTPUT
RA4 OUTPUT
RA5 OUTPUT
RA6 OUTPUT
RA7 OUTPUT

5- What does the following program do:

bcf TEMP, 5
bsf TEMP, 7

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QUESTION IV (10 points)

a) Draw the circuit of 8 bit ladder ADC


b) Specify the locations of LSB and MSB
c) State the advantage of ladder ADC over the weighted binary ADC.

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QUESTION V (10 points)
You were asked to design a device that records an electromyography EMG signal from the muscle
and drive a prosthetic hand. The significant EMG activity happens between 5 Hz and 450 Hz. The
EMG signal is in mV and need to be amplified. Also, as shown in the figure the EMG signal needs
rectification before being converted to digital for further processing. Note that the fingers move by
specific analog motors. Design an antialiasing filter (specify a cutoff frequency range) and sampling
rate range.

EMG signal

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QUESTION VI (15 points)

The analog input channel voltage range for a PIC16 Microcontroller is limited to the positive range
0-Vref. Many situations require a digitized mapping from bipolar analog signals to unipolar signals.
Design a simple resistive network to translate a bipolar voltage range of ±10V to a unipolar range of
0 - 3 V, assuming Vref is +3 V.

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QUESTION IV (20 points)

The “Bourdon tube” is an analog pressure gauge with a full scale of 100 psi.
a) Design a flash 4-bit analog to digital converter whose range is between 0 and 5V (full range = 5 v)
that can be connected to this pressure gauge. (Identify all components in the circuit and state how
many are needed).
b) For how many divisions the input signal can be divided?
c) What is the smallest detectable voltage (code width Vcw)?
d) Write the input output table of the designed ADC.

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