Assignment-2

1) Show that any scheme that can be used to generate DSB-SC can also generate AM and any scheme that can be
used to demodulate DSB-SC can also demodulate AM. Is the converse true in both cases? Explain.
2) You are asked to design a DSB-SC modulator to generate a modulated signal km(t) cosct, where m(t) is a signal
band-limited to B Hz. Figure shows a DSB-SC modulator available in the stock room. The carrier generator
available generates not cosct, but cos3ct. Explain whether you would be able to generate the desired signal using
only this equipment. You may use any kind of filter you like. For the AM signal with = 0.8.
(a) What kind of filter is required in the given figure?
(b) Determine the signal spectra at points b and c, and indicate the frequency bands occupied by these spectra.
(c) What is the minimum usable value of c?
(d) Would this scheme work if the carrier generator output were cos2ct? Explain.
(e) Would this scheme work if the carrier generator output were cosnct for any integer n2? Explain.

3) Sketch the AM signal [A+m(t)]cos ct for the periodic triangle signal m(t) shown in the figure corresponding to
the modulation index: (a) = 0.5; (b) = 1; (c) = 2; (d) = . How do you interpret the case = ?
For the AM signal with = 0.8,
(a) Find the amplitude and power of the carrier
(b) Find the sideband power and the power efficiency .

4) A vestigial filter Ht() shown in the transmitter of Fig.1 has a transfer function as shown in Fig. 2. The carrier
frequency is fc = 10 kHz and the baseband signal bandwidth is 4 kHz. Find the corresponding transfer function of the
equalizer filter Ho() shown in the receiver of the Fig. 1

Fig. 1

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5) A modulating signal m(t) is given by:
(a) m(t) = cos 100t
(b) m(t) = cos 100t + 2cos 300t
(c) m(t) = cos 100tcos 500t
In each case
(i) Sketch the spectrum of m(t).
(ii) Find and sketch the spectrum of the DSB-SC signal 2m(t) cos 1000t.
(iii) From the spectrum obtained in (ii), suppress the LSB spectrum to obtain the USB spectrum.
(iv) Knowing the USB spectrum in (ii), write the expression USB (t) for the USB signal.
(v) Repeat (iii) and (iv) to obtain the LSB signal LSB (t).
6) An USB signal is generated by using the phase-shift method. If the input to this system is mh(t) instead of m(t),
what will be the output? Is this signal still an SSB signal with bandwidth equal to that of m(t)? Can this signal be
demodulated [to get back m(t)]? If so, how?

SSB generation using phase-shift method

7) An LSB signal is demodulated synchronously, as shown in the figure.
Unfortunately, the local carrier is not 2 cos ct as required, but is 2 cos [(c + )t + ]. Show that:
(a) When = 0, the output y(t) is the signal m(t) with all its spectral components shifted (offset) by .
(b) When = 0, the output is the signal m(t) with phases of all its spectral components shifted by .