EE150. Home Assignment #3.

3.1-3 (10 points). Five telemetry signals, each of bandwidth 1 kHz, are to be transmitted simulta-
neously by binary PCM. The maximum tolerable error in sample amplitudes is 0.5 percent of the peak
signal amplitude. The signals must be sampled at least 20 percent above the Nyquist rate. Framing and
synchronizing requires an additional 0.5 percent extra bits. Determine the minimum possible data rate (bits
per second) that must be transmitted.
3.1-4 (10 points). It is desired to set up a central station for simultaneous monitoring of the electro-
cardiograms (ECGs) of 10 hospital patients. The data from the rooms of the 10 patients are brought to a
processing center over wires and are sampled, quantized, binary coded, and time-division multiplexed. The
multiplexed data are now transmitted over a cable to the monitoring station. The ECG signal bandwidth
is 100 Hz. The maximum acceptable error in sample amplitudes is 0.25 percent of the peak signal ampli-
tude. The sampling rate must be at least twice the Nyquist rate. Determine the minimum bit rate that the
transmitting cable should be able to handle.
3.1-5 (10 points). A message signal :(t) is transmitted by binary PCM without compression. If the
signal-to-quantization noise ratio is required to be at least 47 dB, determine the minimum value of 1 required
assuming that :(t) is sinusoidal. Determine the SNR obtained with this minimum 1.
3.1-8 (10 points) A signal bandlimited to 1 MHz is sampled at a rate 50 percent higher than the
Nyquist rate and quantized into 256 levels using j law quantizer with j = 225.
a) Determine the signal-to-quantization noise ratio.
b) The signal-to-noise ratio (the received signal quality) found in part (a) was found unsatisfactory. The
SNR must be increased at least by 10 dB. It was further found that a sampling rate 20 percent above
the Nyquist rate is adequate. Would you be able to obtain the desired SNR? If so, explain how.
3.2-1 (10 points) A signal :
1
(t) is bandlimited to 3.6 kHz, and three other signals, :
2
(t), :
3
(t),
and :
4
(t), are bandlimited to 1.2 kHz each. These signals are to be sampled at the Nyquist rate. Suggest
a suitable multiplexing arrangement. What must be the speed of the commutator (in samples/second)? If
the commutator output is quantized (1 = 1024) and binary coded, what is the output bit rate?
Extra problem 3.8-2 (20 points) (not included in Home Assignment)
The random binary signal r(t) shown in Fig. P3.8-2 transmits one digit every T

seconds. A binary 1
is transmitted by a pulse j(t) of width T

,2 and amplitude A; a binary 0 is transmitted by no pulse. The

digits 1 and 0 are equally likely and occur randomly. Determine the auto-correlation function 1

(t) and
the PSD o

(.).
) (t x
t b
T
b
T /2
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Figure P3.8-2