UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA SHAH ALAM

COLLEGE OF COMPUTING, INFORMATIC AND MATHEMATICS

Tutorial 4: Analog Transmission

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1. Define analog transmission.

2. Define carrier signal and explain its role in analog transmission.
3. Explain three characteristic of a complete signal wave and draw and label each of the
characteristic.
4. What is a Carrier Frequency?
5. Define digital-to-analog conversion.
6. List and explain all types of digital to analog conversion that you have learned.
7. Which of the four digital-to-analog conversion techniques (ASK, FSK, PSK or QAM) is the most
susceptible to noise? Defend your answer.
8. Define constellation diagram and explain its role in analog transmission.
9. What are the two components of a signal when the signal is represented on a constellation
diagram? Which component is shown on the horizontal axis? Which is shown on the vertical
axis?
10. Define analog-to-analog conversion.
11. Which characteristics of an analog signal are changed to represent the lowpass analog signal in
each of the following analog-to-analog conversions?
a. AM
b. FM
c. PM
12. Which of the three analog-to-analog conversion techniques (AM, FM, or PM) is the most
susceptible to noise? Defend your answer.

13. Calculate the baud rate for the given bit rate and type of modulation.
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a. 4000 bps, FSK

b. 2000 bps, ASK
c. 4000 bps, QPSK
d. 42,000 bps, 64-QAM
14. Calculate the bit rate for the given baud rate and type of modulation.
a. 2000 baud, FSK
b. 3000 baud, ASK
c. 4000 baud, BPSK
d. 5000 baud, 16-QAM
15. What is the number of bits per baud for the following techniques?
a. ASK with four different amplitudes
b. FSK with eight different frequencies
c. PSK with four different phases
d. QAM with a constellation of 128 points
16. Draw the constellation diagram for the following:
a. ASK, with peak amplitude values of 1 and 3
b. BPSK, with a peak amplitude value of 2
c. QPSK, with a peak amplitude value of 3
d. 8-QAM with two different peak amplitude values, 1 and 3, and four different phases
17. Given a system has a data rate of 4000 bps and sends a data size of 4 bits a time. The digital data
is modulated on a carrier signal of 10 MHz using FSK.
a. Calculate the number of different frequencies required.
b. Calculate the baud rate.
c. Calculate the bandwidth.