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PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE - 641 004
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, FEBRUARY / MARCH - 2016
BE ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING Semester : 7
12L702 DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Answer ALL questions from GROUP I.
2. Answer any FOUR questions from GROUP II.
3. Answer any ONE question from GROUP III.
4. Ignore the box titled as Answers for Group III in the Main Answer Book.
5. Table of Q Function is given.
GROUP - I Marks : 10 x 3 = 30
1. Find the hamming distance between 1101101 and 1000011. Find the hamming weight
of 1101101 and 1000011.
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2. Design a convolutional coder of constraint length 6 and rate efficiency .
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3. Draw the waveforms of the bit stream 1010101 in the following formats on-off RZ ; polar
NRZ and bipolar RZ. Use a triangular pulse as basic pulse.
4. State Nyquist second and third criteria to realize zero ISI.
5. A PCM system uses a uniform quantiser followed by a 7-bit encoder. The bit rate of
the system is 50 Mbits/second. What is the message bandwidth for which the system
operates satisfactorily?
6. What is slope overload noise? State the condition for such a noise not to occur in Delta
Sigma modulator.
7. A direct sequence spread-spectrum system uses a linear feedback shift register of 20
stages for the generation of PN sequence. Find its processing gain in dB.
8. State the principle of early-late gate synchronization technique.
9. Derive the expression for bit error probability of a coherent FSK receiver.
10. Show, with an example, the encoding and decoding processes of a DPSK modulator and
demodulator respectively.
GROUP - II Marks : 4 x 12.5 = 50

11. a) Find the (7, 4) systematic and non-systematic cyclic code words of the message

word 1101. Assume the generator polynomial as 1 x x .

2 3
(6.5)

1 0 0 0 1 0 1
b) A (7, 4) linear block code has a generator matrix as C
0 1 0 0 1 1 0 .
0 0 1 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Correct the received code word 0000001. (6)
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12. a) A received pulse p r (t ) has pr (0) 1 , pr (1) 0.3 , pr (2) 0.1 , pr (1) 0.2 ,

pr (2) 0.05 . Design a three-tap equalizer. (7.5)

b) Show, by an example, that scrambler improves transparency and reduces dc content
of random bit streams. (5)
13. Derive the expression for SNR of a DM receiver.
14. a) Binary data is transmitted at a rate of 106 bits/sec over a channel of bandwidth
3 MHz. The noise power spectral density at the receiver input is

/ 2 10 10 Watt / Hz . Find the average carrier power required at the receiver input
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for coherent PSK and DPSK signaling schemes to maintain pe 10 . (6)
b) Binary data is transmitted over a channel of usable bandwidth of 3000 Hz and a
maximum achievable signal-to-nose power ratio of 6 dB at its output (i) Find the
maximum signaling rate and p e if a coherent ASK is used for transmitting binary

data through the channel. (ii) If the data rate is maintained at 300 bits/sec, find the
error probability. (6.5)
15. a) Explain COSTAS loop method of carrier synchronization. (8.5)
b) Explain any two properties of PN sequences. (4)

GROUP - III Marks : 1 x 20 = 20

16. a) Derive a general expression for power spectral density of a line coded waveform.(15)
b) Write notes on eye diagram. (5)
17. a) Explain the working of a direct sequence spread spectrum system. (10)
b) Explain the sequential decoding of convolutionally coded words, with a suitable
example. (10)

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