DSP Lab - SAMPLE viva questions

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What is MATLAB?
What are the applications of MATLAB?
State sampling theorem.
What is meant by Nyquist rate and Nyquist criteria?
Explain scaling and superposition properties of a system.
What is meant by linearity of a system and how it is related to scaling and
superposition?
What is impulse function?
What is meant by impulse response?
What is energy signal? How to calculate energy of a signal?
What is power signal? How to calculate power of a signal?
Differentiate between even and odd signals.
Explain time invariance property of a system with an example.
What is memory less system?
When a system is said to have memory?
What is meant by causality?
Explain linear convolution and circular convolution.
What is the length of linear and circular convolutions if the two sequences are
having the length n1 and n2?
What are Fourier series and Fourier transform?
What are the advantages and special applications of Fourier transform, Fourier
series, Z transform and Laplace transform?
Differentiate between DTFT and DFT. Why it is advantageous to use DFT in
computers rather than DTFT?
In DTFT, frequency appears to be continuous. But, in DFT, frequency is discrete.
This property is useful for computation in computers.
How to perform linear convolution using circular convolution?
If two signals x (n) and y (n) are of length n1 and n2, then the linear convoluted
output z (n) is of length n1+n2-1. Each of the input signals is padded with zeros to
make it of length n1+n2-1. Then circular convolution is done on zero padded
sequences to get the linear convolution of original input sequences x (n) and y (n).
What is meant by correlation?
Correlation is the measure of similarity between two signal/waveforms. It
compares the waveforms at different time instants.
What is auto-correlation?
It is a measure of similarity of similarity of a signal/waveform with itself.
What is cross-correlation?
What are the advantages of using autocorrelation and cross correlation properties in
signal processing fields?
How auto-correlation can be used to detect the presence of noise?
Differentiate between IIR filters and FIR filters.

Advantages
FIR

IIR

Stable
Highly precise
Finite duration impulse response
Excellent phase response
The word-size effect such as round-off
noise and coefficient quantization
errors are much less severe in FIR.

cost lesser
Faster computations
Less hardware, computations
Easier to design
Lower order required

Disadvantages
FIR
Require higher order
Increased hardware
More computations
Larger input and output
delays
Cost more
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IIR
Sensitive to data round off
and cutoff
Make become unstable
Poor phase response

What is the procedure to design a digital Butterworth filter?

What is the difference between Butterworth, Chebyshev I and Chebyshev II filters?
What are difference equations and differential equations?
What is non real time processing?
Collector

Raw
Data

Processor

Refined
Data

Signal

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What is meant by real time processing?

Ability to collect, analyze, and modify signals in real-time
Real-Time: As these signals are occurring
We can analyze and process signals while collecting them, not at a later
time.
Real-Time
Signal
Processor

Signal

Refined
Data

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What is a Digital Signal Processor (DSP)?

Microprocessor specifically designed to perform fast DSP operations (e.g., Fast
Fourier Transforms, inner products, Multiply & Accumulate)
Good at arithmetic operations (multiplication/division)
Mostly programmed with Assembly and C through Integrated
Development Environment (IDE)
Differentiate between RISC and CISC architectures.
RISC

Emphasis
on
software

Singleclock,
reduced
instruction
only

large
code
size

Better C
compilers

CISC

Emphasis
on
hardware

Includes
multi-clock
complex
instructions

Small
code
sizes

Poor C
compilers

Differentiate between General purpose MPU(Micro Processor Unit) and DSP

Processor
MPU are built for a range of general-purpose functions such as:
Data manipulation
Math calculations
Control systems
They run large blocks of software
They are used in real-time and in unreal-time systems
DSPs are single-minded, dedicated to:
Perform mathematical calculations
Small blocks of software
Have a predictable execution time
Real-time only
Could assist a general-purpose host MPU
Microprocessor
General purpose
Fixed internal format
Single memory access
General addressing mode
Very large external memory

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What is pipelining?

DSP
Arithmetic
Varying internal format
Multiple memory access
Special addressing mode
Very large internal memory

Pipeline
Description
Stage
PF

Generate program fetch address

Read opcode

Route opcode to functional unit

Decode instruction

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Execute instruction

What is parallel processing?

What is MAC?
What is barrel shifter? Why it is advantageous to use it in DSP processor?
Differentiate between floating point DSP and fixed point DSP.
41. Fixed Point/Floating Point
fixed point processor are :
i. cheaper
ii. smaller
iii. less power consuming
iv. Harder to program
1. Watch for errors: truncation, overflow, rounding
v. Limited dynamic range
vi. Used in 95% of consumer products
floating point processors
i. have larger accuracy
ii. are much easier to program
iii. can access larger memory
iv. It is harder to create an efficient program in C on a fixed point
processors than on floating point processors
Floating Point

Applications
Modems
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Wireless Base stations
Digital Imaging
3D Graphics
Speech Recognition
Voice over IP

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What is code composer studio?

Fixed Point
Applications
Portable Products
2G, 2.5G and 3G Cell Phones
Digital Audio Players
Digital Still Cameras
Voice Recognition
Headsets
Fingerprint Recognition

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Explain Von-Neumann and Harvard architectures

Von Neumann Architecture : Single memory shared by both the program

instructions and data

Harvard Architecture : Two separate memories, a program memory

(PM) for
instructions, and a
data memory (DM)
for data

What are Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, Mic-out?

1. What is sampling theorem?

2. What do you mean by process of reconstruction.
3. What are techniques of reconstructions.
4. What do you mean Aliasing? What is the condition to avoid aliasing for sampling?
5. Write the conditions of sampling.
6. How many types of samplingS r there?
7. Explain the statementt=
0:0.000005:0.05
8. In the above example what does colon (

and semicolon (

denotes.

9. What is a) Undersampling b) nyquist plot c) Oversampling.

10. Write the MATLAB program for Oversampling.
11. What is the use of command 'legend'?
12. Write the difference between built in function, plot and stem describe the function.

13. What is the function of built in function and subplot?

14. What is linear convolution?
15. Explain how convolution syntax built in function works.
16. How to calculate the beginning and end of the sequence for the two sided controlled
output?
17. What is the total output length of linear convolution sum.
18. What is an LTI system?
19. Describe impulse response of a function.
20. What is the difference between convolution and filter?
21. Where to use command filter or impz, and what is the difference between these two?
22. What is the use o function command 'deconv'?
23. What is the difference between linear and circular convolution?
24. What do you mean by statement subplot (3,3,1).
25. What do you mean by command "mod" and where it is used?
26. What do you mean by Autocorrelation and Crosscorrelation sequences?
27. What is the difference between Autocorrelatio and Crsscorrelation.
28. List all the properties of autocorrelation and Crosscorrelaion sequence.
29. Where we use the inbuilt function 'xcorr' and what is the purpose of using this
function?
30. How to calculate output of DFT using MATLAB?
31. What do you mean by filtic command, explain.
32. How to calculate output length of the linear and circular convolution.
33. What do you mean by built in function 'fliplr' and where we need to use this.
34. What is steady state response?
35. Which built in function is used to solve a given difference equation?
36. Explain the concept of difference equation.
37. Where DFT is used?
38. What is the difference between DFT and IDFT?
39. What do you mean by built in function 'abs' and where it is used?
40. What do you mean by phase spectrum and magnitude spectrum/ give comparison.
41. How to compute maximum length N for a circular convolution using DFT and IDFT.
(what is
command).
42. Explain the statement- y=x1.*x2
43. What is FIR and IIR filter define, and distinguish between these two.
44. What is filter?

Digital signal processing interview questions

Q1.- Classify signals.
Ans1.
Continuous-time, continuous amplitude (Analog Signals)
Discrete time, continuous amplitude
Continuous time, discrete amplitude
Discrete-time, discrete-amplitude

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Q2.-What is the use of Random Signals?
Ans2. Random signals are used to test dynamic response statistically for very small amplitudes and timeduration.
Q3.- Classify Systems.
Ans3. Linear, stable and time-invariant.
Q4.-What do you mean by aliasing in digital signal processing? How it can be avoided?
Ans4. Aliasing refers to an effect due to which different signals become indistinguishable. It also refers to
distortion in the reconstructed signal when it is reconstructed from the original continuous signal.
To avoid aliasing we can simply filter out the high frequency components of the signal by using antialiasing filter like optical anti-aliasing filter.
Q5. What are the differences between a microprocessor and a DSP processor?
Ans5. DSP processors are featured to support high performance and repeatitive and intensive tasks
whereas microprocessors are not application specific and they are designed to process control-oriented
tasks.
Q6. What is the convolution?
Ans6. Convolution is the technique of adding two signals in time domain. We can also do this quite easily
by changing the domain of signals from time domain to frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform
(FFT).
Q7.- What is FFT?
Ans7. FFT is a fast way to calculate Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). It is much more efficient then DFT
and require less number of coding lines. Due to FFT several kind of techniques are feasible.
Q8.- What is the advantage of a Direct form II FIR over fom I?

Ans8. Direct Form II FIR filters requires half the number of delay units as much as used by Form I.
Q9.- What is interpolation and decimation?
Ans9. Interpolation is the process of increasing the sample rate in dsp whereas decimation is the opposite
of this that is, it is the process of decreasing the sample rate in dsp.
10.- Difference between DFT and DTFT.
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DFT

DTFT

1-Limited number of samples of periodic signal

1-unlimited number of samples.

2- input is always periodic

2-input may not always be periodic

3- physically realizable

3- mathematically precise

4- frequency becomes discrete

4- frequency is continuous

11. what isdsp processor ?

Up specially designed to perform fast dsp operations. Good at arithmetic operations.
Programmed with assembly and c through IDE.
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What is sampling theorem?

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What do you mean by process of reconstruction.

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What are techniques of reconstructions.

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What do you mean Aliasing? What is the condition to avoid aliasing for
sampling?
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Write the conditions of sampling.

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How many types of sampling there?

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Explain the statement-

t= 0:0.000005:0.05
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In the above example what does colon (:) and semicolon (;) denotes.
9.

What is a) Undersampling

b) nyquist plot

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Write the MATLAB program for Oversampling.

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What is the use of command legend?

c) Oversampling.

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Write the difference between built in function, plot and stem describe the
function.
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What is the function of built in function and subplot?

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What is linear convolution?

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Explain how convolution syntax built in function works.

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How to calculate the beginning and end of the sequence for the two sided
controlled output?
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What is the total output length of linear convolution sum.

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What is an LTI system?

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Describe impulse response of a function.

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What is the difference between convolution and filter?

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Where to use command filter or impz, and what is the difference between
these two?
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What is the use o function command deconv?

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What is the difference between linear and circular convolution?

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What do you mean by statement subplot (3,3,1).

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What do you mean by command mod and where it is used?

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What do you mean by Autocorrelation and Crosscorrelation sequences?

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What is the difference between Autocorrelatio and Crsscorrelation.

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List all the properties of autocorrelation and Crosscorrelaion sequence.

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Where we use the inbuilt function xcorr and what is the purpose of using
this function?
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How to calculate output of DFT using MATLAB?

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What do you mean by filtic command, explain.

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How to calculate output length of the linear and circular convolution.

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What do you mean by built in function fliplr and where we need to use

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What is steady state response?

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Which built in function is used to solve a given difference equation?

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Explain the concept of difference equation.

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Where DFT is used?

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What is the difference between DFT and IDFT?

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What do you mean by built in function abs and where it is used?

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What do you mean by phase spectrum and magnitude spectrum/ give
comparison.
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How to compute maximum length N for a circular convolution using DFT
and IDFT.(what is command).
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Explain the statement-

y=x1.*x2

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What is FIR and IIR filter define, and distinguish between these two.

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What is filter?

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What is window method? How you will design an FIR filter using window
method.
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What are low-pass and band-pass filter and what is the difference
between these two?

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Explain the command N=ceil(6.6*pi/tb)

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Write down commonly used window function characteristics.

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What is the matlab command for Hamming window? Explain.

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What do you mea by cut-off frequency?

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What do you mean by command butter, cheby1?

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Explain the command in detail[N,wc]=buttord(2*fp/fs,2*fstp/fs,rp,As)
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What is CCS? Explain in detail to execute a program using CCS.

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Why do we need of CCS?

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How to execute a program using dsk and simulator?

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Which IC is used in CCS? Explain the dsk, dsp kit.

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What do you mean by noise?

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Explain the program for linear convolution for your given sequence.

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Why we are using command float in CCS programs.

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Where we use float and where we use int?

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Explain the command- i=(n-k)%N

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Explain the entire CCS program in step by step of execution.