Tutorial 7
Tutorial 7
Q1. [CO3]: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) has 128
characters, which are binary coded. If a certain computer generates 100,000 characters per
second, determine the following:
(a) The number of bits (binary digits) required per character.
(b) The number of bits per second required to transmit the computer output, and the minimum
bandwidth required to transmit this signal.
(c) For single error-detection capability, an additional bit (parity bit) is added to the code of
each character. Modify your answers in parts (a) & (b) in view of this information.
Q2. [CO3]: A compact disc (CD) records audio signal digitally by using PCM. Assume the
audio signal bandwidth to be 15 kHz.
(a) What is the Nyquist rate?
(b) If the Nyquist samples are quantized into L=65,536 levels and then binary coded,
determine the number of binary digits required to encode a sample.
(c) Determine the number of binary digits per second (bits/s) required to encode the audio
signal.
(d) For practical reasons discussed in the text, signals are sampled at a rate well above the
Nyquist rate. Practical CDs use 44,100 samples per second. If L=65,536, determine the
number of bits per second required to encode the signal, and the minimum bandwidth required
to transmit the encoded signal.
Q3. [CO3]: A television signal (video and audio) has a bandwidth of 4.5 MHz. This signal is
sampled, quantized, and binary coded to obtain a PCM signal.
(a) Determine the sampling rate if the signal is to be sampled at a rate 20% above the Nyquist
rate.
(b) If the samples are quantized into 1024 levels, determine the number of binary pulses
required to encode each sample.
(c) Determine the binary pulse rate (bits per second) of the binary–coded signal, and the
minimum bandwidth required to transmit this signal.
Q4. [CO3]: Five telemetry signals, each of bandwidth 4 kHz, are to be transmitted
simultaneously by binary PCM. The maximum tolerable error in sample amplitudes is 2% of
the peak signal amplitude. The signals must be sampled at least 20% above the Nyquist rate.
Framing and synchronizing requires an additional 2% extra bits. Determine the minimum
possible data rate (bits per second) that must be transmitted, and the minimum bandwidth
required to transmit the signal.
Q5. [CO3]: It is desired to set up a central station for simultaneous monitoring of the
electrocardiograms (ECG) of 10 hospital patients. The data from the rooms of the patients are
brought to a processing center over wires and are sampled, quantized, binary coded and time
division multiplexed. The multiplexed data are now transmitted to the monitoring station as
shown in Fig. 1.
The ECG signal bandwidth is 100 Hz. The maximum acceptable error in sample amplitudes is
0.25% of the peak signal amplitude. The sampling rate must be at least twice the Nyquist rate.
Determine the minimum cable bandwidth needed to transmit these data.
Q6. [CO3]: Derive the expression for maximum signal to quantization noise ratio for the
sinusoidal message signal. Assume there is no slope overloading problem in DM.
Q7. [CO3]: A binary PAM wave is to be transmitted over a low pass channel with an absolute
maximum bandwidth of 75 KHz. The bit duration is 10 μs. Find a raised cosine spectrum that
satisfies these requirements.
Q8. [CO3]: In a certain telemetry system, eight message signals having 2 KHz bandwidth
each are time division multiplexed using a binary PCM. The error in sampling amplitude
cannot be greater than 1 percent of the peak amplitude. Determine the minimum transmission
bandwidth required if raised cosine pulses with roll off factor α=0.2 are used. The sampling
rate must be at least 25 percent above the Nyquist rate.