Instructor: Engr.

Sharoze Sohail

AIR UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

EXPERIMENT NO 8

Lab Title: Use ADC and DAC for Amplitude Modulation

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Objective:

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Ability to Conduct
Experiment
Ability to assimilate the
results
Effective use of lab
equipment and follows
the lab safety rules

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EXPERIMENT NO 7

USE ADC AND DAC FOR AMPLITUDE MODULATION

Objectives
 Implement an Amplitude Modulation model and Amplitude De-Modulation model using
ADC and DAC.

Hardware and Software Requirements

This laboratory requires the following hardware and software:

 MATLAB R2007a with Embedded Target for TI C6000 and Signal Processing Block set.

 Code Composer Studio (CCS) v3.1

 Texas Instruments DSK6713 hardware.

 Function Generator and oscilloscope

Discussion:

Amplitude modulation (AM), still widely used in commercial radio today, is one of the simplest
ways that a message signal can modulate a sinusoidal carrier wave. The purpose of this lab is for
you to gain familiarity with the concepts of amplitude modulation and demodulation. This will be
done in two main steps:

 First, an amplitude modulation system will be created and simulated using Simulink.
 Second, this system will be implemented on a TMS320C6713 DSP platform. Similarly, to
an AM radio station, the modulating signal will be an audio signal.

Amplitude Modulation

The basic modulation mathematical description is given by:

st   Ac 1  k  mt cos ct

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Where

m(t) : Modulation Signal

AcCoswct : Carrier Signal

k: Modulation Index

Demodulation

The demodulation portion, based on Square root demodulation is mathematically presented as:

Designing and Simulating an AM Modulator

1. Based on the block diagram that you have reviewed for an AM modulator, build your
model.
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2. Your AM Modulator should look like the figure below.

3. For the initial simulation, use a DSP Sine generator as input, and for output use one-time
scope.
4. For your message signal, use a 1KHz, (1Vpp) sinusoid.
5. As your block diagram should indicate, the input signal must be added to a DC component
and this combined signal will be multiplied by the carrier frequency. Use a DC component
of 1. The carrier frequency is generated by another discrete-time sine wave generator,
with an amplitude of 1 (peak value) and 15 KHz.
6. Run your simulation, and observe the result on the Simulink scopes. Adjust the setting of
your scopes appropriately
7. You should observe an AM signal as shown in figure below.
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Real time implementation:

1. Replace the signal generator block (information signal) with an ADC block.
2. Replace the Virtual scope (vector scope) block with a DAC block.
Configure the ADC block for 96 kHz, 16-bit word samples, add line-In as input and don’t
add +20 dB gain.
Configure the DAC block for 96 kHz, 16-bit word samples
3. Add a C6713 target.
4. Set the configuration parameters.
5. Change all the DSP constant blocks to Frame based and Frame period= -1
6. Connect the Line-In jack of the DSK with function generator, which generates a 1kHz sine
wave 1 V P-P.
7. Connect the Line Out jack of DSK with oscilloscope.
8. Build the model and observe the modulated signal on oscilloscope.