INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

END-OF-SEMESTER EXAMINATION
SEMESTER I, 2014/2015 SESSION
KULLIYYAH OF ENGINEERING
Programme:

Mechatronics

Level of Study: UG4

Time:

9:00 am -12 noon

Date:

Duration:

3 Hrs

Course Code:

MCT4338

Course Title:

Signal Processing and Communications

Section(s):

January 05, 2015

1 and 2

This Question Paper Consists of Five (5) Printed Pages (Including Cover Page) With Five (5)
Questions.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

DO NOT OPEN UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO

Attempt ALL QUESTIONS
Marks attached to each question are stated beside it.
Answers should be clear and intelligible.
Justify your answer with simplification of intermediate steps for full marks.
USE ONLY PEN FOR THIS EXAMINATION

Any form of cheating or attempt to cheat is a

serious offence which may lead to dismissal.

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Q1 [20 Marks]
a) A microphone whose frequency response is limited to 5 kHz , picks up not only desired
signal x (t) but also its echoes. However, only the first echo, arriving after
t d=1.25 ms ,
has a significant amplitude (of = 0.5) relative to the desired signal x ( t ) . The
microphone
signal is to be processed digitally in an effort to remove the echo.
i) Develop a difference equation relating the sampled output and the sampled input of the
microphone using an arbitrary sampling rate of F s .
(2)
ii) What is the practical limitation in processing the signal if F s is equal to the Nyquist
frequency?
(2)
iii) Select the smallest F s if the sampling frequency can be varied only in steps of
1 kHz . (2)
iv) Design a filter for recovering the original signal.
(3)
b) The z-transform of a signal is given as
1
X ( z )=ln ( 12 z ) ,|z|< .
2
Determine x ( n ) .
(3)
c) During the system identification studies, a linear time-invariant digital controller excited by
an input signal
1 n ( ) ( )n (
x ( n )=
u n + 2 u n1 ) ,
2
produces an output signal
1 n ( )
3 n ( )
y ( n )=6
u n 6
un.
2
4
i) Compute the system function, H ( z ) .
(4)
ii) Obtain the unit sample response, h(n) of the system. Comment on the causality and
stability of the system.
(4)

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Q2 [20 Marks]
a) Consider the discrete-time (DT) signal
n
2n
n
x n 5 2 cos
4 exp j ; n .
3 sin
6
4
3
6
i) Determine its discrete-time Fourier series (DTFS) coefficients.
(4)
ii) Demonstrate the validity of Parsevals theorem for this signal.
(2)
iii) Suppose the DT signal x n is used as an input to the digital filter shown in Fig.1,
determine the filter response.

(6)

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Fig. 1
b) During the implementation of the final year project, a student needs to design a high
quality digital resonator that passes an analog frequency F0 250 Hz . Assume a sampling
frequency of 2 kHz , design a digital resonator, H z , which passes F0 250 Hz with
bandwidth F0 5 Hz , and zeros at z= 1.
(4)

c) During the implementation of the final year project, a student needs to design a digital
notch filter to remove an undesirable 50 Hz hum associated with the supply unit. Assume

H 1 for 0.
that a sampling frequency of 200 Hz is used and
Design a secondorder pole-zero notch filter to achieve the above objective. Assume that F=2 Hz .

(4)
Q3[20 Marks]
a) a) Given a DT sequence
x n 1 2 j , 2 j 2, j , 1 j .

Compute the 4-point DFT of x n .

(4)
x
(
n
)
h(
n)
b) The input sequence
and the unit sample response,
of a DT system are
given as
follows:

x n 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2 ,

It is required to compute the output

h n 1, 2, 1 .

y ( n ) using the block filtering techniques. Suppose

the
length of the DFT/FFT for the convolution operation is 8. Construct the data
segmentation
arrangement for block processing of x (n) and compute y ( n ) , for the first two
operations,
if
i)
Overlap-save approach is used.
ii)
Overlap-add approach is used.

(8)
(8)

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Q4 [20 Marks]
a) The even samples of the 9-point DFT of a length-9 real data sequence are given as follows:

X 0 3.1, X 2 2.5 j 4.6, X 4 1.7 j 5.2, X 6 9.3 j 6.3, X 8 5.5 j8.0

Determine the missing odd samples of X k .
(4)
b) One of the common problems in signal processing is the spectral analysis of composite
sinusoidal signals buried in noise. In this problem here, two sinusoidal signals without
noise is considered for analysis so that
2 ( F 0+ F ) t
[ ].
x ( t )= A cos ( 2 F 0 t ) +B cos
F0 =120 Hz .
The sampling frequency is F s=480 Hz ,
A=B=1,

F=2
Hz
,
Suppose
determine the smallest number of signal samples
N min
in order to resolve the two frequencies if a
i) Rectangular window is applied.
(3)
ii) Hamming window is applied.
(3)
iii) Compute and sketch the DFT of rectangular-windowed data, x ( n ) , indicating the
DFT
indices for the above two frequency components.
(6)
iv) How would the results obtained in b(iii) be affected if an FFT algorithm is used in the
DFT computation of x ( n ) ?
(2)
F=2 Hz ? (2)
v) How would the results in b(iii) be affected if A=1, B=0.02 ,
Q5 [20 Marks]
a) The transfer function of an analog system is given as
s2
H a s 2
.
s 4 s 13

(5)

Use the impulse invariance method to determine H z for a discrete-time system such that
h n ha nT , T 0.25 sec .
b) Suppose it is required to design a low-pass filter for use in digital communication. The
filter specifications are as follows:
1) 4 dB attenuation at cut-off frequency 15 rad/sec
2) 30 dB attenuation at and past stopband frequency 60 rad/sec.
3) Sampling frequency of 300 Hz .

i) Design a linear phase FIR filter using the window method to satisfy the above
objectives.
(5)
ii) Design an IIR Butterworth filter using the bilinear transformation to meet the above
specifications.
(10)
(Give H(z) in transformational form. DO NOT SIMPLIFY!)

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