DAT116 recitation

Nov 4, 2013
Lars Svensson

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 Agenda
Practical issues
Absentees
Lab groups
Time slots for orals
E-book access
Lab reports
Previous lab session issues?
A few old exam problems
Upcoming lab session walk-through

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 Lab 0 absentees

You know who you are.

Talk to Kasyab to show results
Plan to attend lab this week

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 Lab groups

Group assignments posted in PP

Tue/Wed only visible in group Preferences
Odd place, I know :-(
Groups 8 through 12 are scheduled on
Tuesdays.

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 Time slots

There are now 28 time slots available for

reservation via PingPong
Do It Now
Esp. if you have constraints

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 E-book access

Problems last year. Please check.

Is everyone comfortable with finding
references online?

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 Lab report contents?
Front matter: Author names, date, course
code, etc
Part 1: Describe what you have done; include
diagrams when required; answer any
questions posed in the PM
Should be self-contained
No two-column formats
Readable diagrams, good resolution, scales
and units on axes, page numbers, etc

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 Lab report contents?

Part 2 (reflection): Address all questions;

essay-like format; no more than a few
paragraphs

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 Lab 0 issues?
Tuesday Simulink license problem
Fixed for Wednesday
sigview, sigspectrum documentation missing
Uploaded now
Linux vs Windows?
PDF generation and inclusion in document?
Anything else?

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 Exam problems

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 1. As you have seen during the course, the minimum possible power dissipation for a Nyquist

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ADC depends on the sample rate and on the resolution. There are also technology-
dependent limitations. One such limitation has to do with the power necessary to generate
the sample clock. With a given implementation technology, the oscillator jitter amplitude
goes roughly as the square root of the oscillator power dissipation.
Give a symbolic expression for the oscillator noise/power relationship and derive an ex-
pression for the minimum power of the converter system, including the oscillator.
2. The voltage/current characteristic of a PN junction is exponential rather than linear:
i = i0 (ev/v0 1)
Since PN junctions are common in electronics (and particularly in bipolar transistors),
weak exponential nonlinearities may occur in amplifier stages:
vout = vin (1 + ev/v0 )
A certain Nyquist ADC suffers from such an exponential nonlinearity in the analog circuits
that precede the quantizer proper (which in itself is accurate).
(a) A pure sinusoidal tone of amplitude is applied to the input of the converter. What
is the expected power level of each harmonic observed at the output?
(b) The frequency of the input signal is 0.27 fS . At what frequencies do the five lowest-
order harmonics show up in a one-sided spectrum (such as those studied used in the
lab course)? (You may disregard spectral leakage.)

Nyquist conversion
3. A signal of a certain bandwidth fB is to be generated by a D/A converter which uses a
zero-order hold. As a result, there are some11errors, or artifacts, in the spectral domain;
these may be suppressed by filtering either before the conversion (in the digital domain)
Monday, November 4, 13
 1. As you have seen during the course, the minimum possible power dissipation for a Nyquist

090314, #2
ADC depends on the sample rate and on the resolution. There are also technology-
dependent limitations. One such limitation has to do with the power necessary to generate
the sample clock. With a given implementation technology, the oscillator jitter amplitude
goes roughly as the square root of the oscillator power dissipation.
Give a symbolic expression for the oscillator noise/power relationship and derive an ex-
pression for the minimum power of the converter system, including the oscillator.
2. The voltage/current characteristic of a PN junction is exponential rather than linear:
i = i0 (ev/v0 1)
Since PN junctions are common in electronics (and particularly in bipolar transistors),
weak exponential nonlinearities may occur in amplifier stages:
vout = vin (1 + ev/v0 )
A certain Nyquist ADC suffers from such an exponential nonlinearity in the analog circuits
that precede the quantizer proper (which in itself is accurate).
(a) A pure sinusoidal tone of amplitude is applied to the input of the converter. What
is the expected power level of each harmonic observed at the output?
(b) The frequency of the input signal is 0.27 fS . At what frequencies do the five lowest-
order harmonics show up in a one-sided spectrum (such as those studied used in the
lab course)? (You may disregard spectral leakage.)

Nyquist conversion
3. A signal of a certain bandwidth fB is to be generated by a D/A converter which uses a
zero-order hold. As a result, there are some11errors, or artifacts, in the spectral domain;
these may be suppressed by filtering either before the conversion (in the digital domain)
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 090314, #2, solution

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 090314, #2, solution
Fundamental at 0.27 fS

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 090314, #2, solution
Fundamental at 0.27 fS
Harm #2 at 2 0.27 fS = 0.54 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.46 fS

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 090314, #2, solution
Fundamental at 0.27 fS
Harm #2 at 2 0.27 fS = 0.54 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.46 fS
Harm #3 at 3 0.27 fS = 0.81 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.19 fS

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 090314, #2, solution
Fundamental at 0.27 fS
Harm #2 at 2 0.27 fS = 0.54 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.46 fS
Harm #3 at 3 0.27 fS = 0.81 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.19 fS
Harm #4 at 4 0.27 fS = 1.08 fS; folded at
0.5 fS and again at 1.0 fS, so 0.08 fS

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 090314, #2, solution
Fundamental at 0.27 fS
Harm #2 at 2 0.27 fS = 0.54 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.46 fS
Harm #3 at 3 0.27 fS = 0.81 fS; folded at
0.5 fS, so 0.19 fS
Harm #4 at 4 0.27 fS = 1.08 fS; folded at
0.5 fS and again at 1.0 fS, so 0.08 fS

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 Lab 1 walk-through

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