NORTH EASTERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

(DEEMED UNIVERSITY)

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

End Semester Examination (Supplementary, 2014): Summer term

EC-5102 (Digital Signal Processing)

Time: 3: 00 Hrs

F. Marks: 100

INSTRUCTIONS:
i. Answer any Five questions
ii. All questions carry equal marks and right hand figures indicate maximum marks.
iii. Use of scientific calculator is permitted

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(a)

With the help of a block diagram, explain a Digital Signal Processing System. Discuss the
advantages of digital over analog signal processing.
(b) Classify the following signals according to whether they are (1) one-or two-dimensional,
(2) single or multi-channel, (3) continuous time or discrete time, and (4) analog or digital
(in amplitude). Give a brief explanation.
(i)
Closing prices of utility stocks on the New York Stock Exchange.
(ii)
A color movie.
(iii) Position of the steering wheel of a car in motion relative to cars reference frame.
(iv) Position of the steering wheel of a car in motion relative to ground reference
frame.
(v)
Weight and height measurements of a child taken every month.

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(a)

With the help of block diagram, explain the process of analog to digital conversion of
signal.
(b) Establish the relationship between the frequency of a continuous time sinusoid to that of the
frequency of corresponding discrete time signal.

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(a) State and prove Sampling theorem. Discuss the effect of under sampling.
(b) Consider the analog signal,

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x(t ) 3 cos 2000 t 5 sin 6000 t 10 cos 12000 t

(i)
(ii)

What is the Nyquist rate of this signal?

Assume now that we sample this signal using sampling rate F s of 5000 samples/s.
What is the discrete time signal obtained after sampling?
What is the analog signal we can reconstruct from the samples if we use ideal
interpolation?

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(a) What are the major classifications of the signals? Discuss each of them briefly.
(b) Determine which of the following sinusoids are periodic and compute their fundamental
period.
cos 0.01 n
(i)
(ii) cos 3 n

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(iii)
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(iii) sin (
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(a)

62n
)
10

(iv) cos (

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30n
)
105

State and prove any four properties of Z-transform.

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(b) Five facts of a discrete time signal x (n ) with Z-transform X ( z ) is given as follows:
x (n ) is real and right sided.
(i)
X ( z ) has exactly two poles.
(ii)
(iii) X ( z ) has exactly two zeros at the origin.
(iv) X ( z )
j / 3
has a pole at z 1 e

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(v)

X (1) 8

Using above facts, determine X ( z ) and its ROC.

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(a)

With illustrations, explain shifting, folding and time scaling operations on discrete time
signals.
(b) What is a causal system? Why are non causal systems unrealizable?
(c) Prove that the system characterized by the equation y (t ) ax(t ) b is non linear.
(d) The impulse response of a system is h( n) a nu ( n) . Derive the condition for the system to
be BIBO stable.

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(a)

Prove that convolution of two signals in time domain is equivalent to multiplication of their
individual Fourier transforms.
(b) The unit impulse response of a linear time invariant system is the unit step function u(t).
Find the response of the system for t > 0 to an excitation e at u(t), a > 0.
(c) Find the response of an FIR filter with impulse response h(n) = {1,2,4} to the input
sequence x(n)={1,2}.
(d) Discuss and compare FIR and IIR Systems.

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Write short notes on:

(a) Classification of Discrete time systems.
(b) Signals, Systems and Signal Processing
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