Assiut University EE325

College of Engineering Analog Communication

Electrical Engineering Department Sheet no.0
P1) Plot, find the period, and find the Fourier series representation of the following periodic Signals. Repeat the solution
using Matlab
a. x(t) = 2 cos (200𝜋t) + 3 sin (400𝜋t).
b. x(t) = 2 cos (200𝜋t) + 5 sin (300𝜋𝑡)
c. x(t) = 2 cos (150𝜋t) + 5 sin (250𝜋t)

P2) Consider the two signals

a. 𝑥1 (𝑡) = 𝑚(𝑡)cos⁡(2𝜋𝑓𝑐 𝑡)
b. 𝑥2 (𝑡) = 𝑚(𝑡)sin⁡(2𝜋𝑓𝑐 𝑡)
where the bandwidth of m(t) much less than 𝑓𝑐 . Compute the simplest form for the following four signals:
a. 𝑦1 (𝑡) = 𝑥1 (𝑡)cos⁡(2𝜋𝑓𝑐 𝑡)
b. 𝑦2 (𝑡) = 𝑥1 (𝑡)sin⁡(2𝜋𝑓𝑐 𝑡)
c. 𝑦3 (𝑡) = 𝑥2 (𝑡)cos⁡(2𝜋𝑓𝑐 𝑡)
d. 𝑦4 (𝑡) = 𝑥2 (𝑡)sin⁡(2𝜋𝑓𝑐 𝑡)
Postulate how a communications engineer might use these results to recover a signal, m(t), from ⁡𝑥1 (𝑡)⁡or 𝑥2 (𝑡)

P3) This problem gives you a little feel for microwave signal processing and the importance of the Fourier series You
have at your disposal.
1. a signal generator which produces 1V amplitude square wave in fundamental frequency,𝑓1 . is tunable from IK
Hz to 50MHZ
2. an ideal bandpass filter with a center frequency of 175MHz and a bandwidth of 30MHZ.
The design problem is
a. Select an 𝑓1 such that when the signal generator is cascaded with the filter that the output will be a single tone at
180MHz. There might be more than one correct answer (that often happen in real life engineering).
b. Calculate the amplitude of the resulting sinusoid.

P4) This problem exercises the signal and system tools: Compute the Fourier transform of
𝐴, 0 ≤ 𝑡 ≤ 𝑇
a. 𝑢(𝑡) = {
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒
𝜋𝑡
𝐴 sin( 𝑇 ) , 0 ≤ 𝑡 ≤ 𝑇
b. 𝑢(𝑡) = {
0, 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒
and give the value of A such that E=1.

P5) This problem uses signal and system theory to compute the output of a simple memoryless nonlinearity. An amplifier
is an often used device in communication systems and is simply modeled as an ideal memoryless system, i.e., 𝑦(𝑡) =
𝑎1 𝑥(𝑡).
This model is an excellent model until the signal levels get large then nonlinear things start to happen which can produce
unexpected changes in the output signals. These changes often have a significant impact in a communication system
design. As an example of this characteristic consider the system
Figure with following signal model
𝑦(𝑡)
Amplifier Ideal BPF 𝑧(𝑡)
𝑥(𝑡)

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Assiut University EE325
College of Engineering Analog Communication
Electrical Engineering Department Sheet no.0

𝑥(𝑡) = 𝑏1 cos(20000𝜋𝑡) + 𝑏2 cos(202000𝜋𝑡). The ideal bandpass filter has a bandwidth of 10 KHz centered at
100KHZ, and the amplifier has the following memoryless model 𝑦(𝑡) = 𝑎1 𝑥(𝑡) + 𝑎3 𝑥 3 (𝑡). Give the system output, z(t),
as a function of 𝑎1 , 𝑎3 , 𝑏1 , 𝑏3

P6) The three signals seen in Figure are going to be used to exercise your signals and systems theory.
Compute for each signal
a. The Fourier transform, U(t).
b. The energy spectral density, G.(f),
c. The correlation function, R.(T). What is the energy?

𝑢1 (𝑡)

𝑡
0.5𝑇𝑝 0.75𝑇𝑝 𝑇𝑝
𝑢2 (𝑡)
−1

√2 sin(𝜋𝑡/𝑇)
𝑡
𝑇𝑝
𝑢3 (𝑡)

𝑡
0.75𝑇𝑝 𝑇𝑝

−1