EEGR 221 MATLAB Project 2 Spring 2017 Due date: 11/20/2017

Modulation and Frequency Analysis

In this project you will use MATLAB environment to create a message signal and a carrier signal and
apply a simplified amplitude modulation (DSB-SC-AM) to see the modulated signal in time domain. Later
using the Fourier transform you will see how modulation affects the signal in the frequency domain.

To do this analysis, in the time domain:

1. Create a 1 second long message signal. The message signal is a rectangular pulse between 450 and 550
milliseconds with magnitude 1. (Hint: Create the signal using millisecond units ((t=0:0:001:1));

2. Create carrier signal of the same duration with frequency f0 = 400 Hz. You can either use sin or cos
waveforms as a carrier with magnitude 1. (i.e. C = cos(2f0t))

3. Modulate signal by multiplying the message signal and the carrier. Plot all 3 signals in the time
domain and explain what you observe in the modulated signal.

In the frequency domain:

4. Take the Fourier transform of the message and carrier and modulated signal and plot the magnitude
spectrum of all of the 3 signals. (Hint: Use fft, fftshift, abs, plot and other commands for his part; Apply
1000-point fft for clear results. To understand this better look up information on fft command by typing
help fft in the command window).

5. Explain what you see in the spectrum of the modulated signal and how it relates to the spectrum of the
message and carrier.

6. Solve this modulation problem by hand (i.e. take the Fourier transform of the modulate signal)

7. Plot the magnitude spectrum of the modulated signal as you computed by hand in part 6.

8. What are the similarities between your hand computed result vs. the MATLAB result from part 4?

9. What are the differences between your hand computed result vs. the MATLAB result from part 4?
What causes these differences?

10. Extra credit: In MATLAB, show that by modulation we can have more than one user on the spectrum.
For this you can create another message and put in on the different carrier and show that the spectrum of
the 2 massage signals do not interfere. Explain how the receiver should be designed.

Please program, solve and answer all of the parts 1 thru 9 and include the question numbers 1, 2, 9 in
your report. For extra credit try part 10. Each part has a separate grade associated with its results.
Append your MATLAB script to the end of the report.

You must turn in your report before 4 pm on Monday November 20, 2017.

Good luck