The GATE Grind

GATE Communication and Optical Instrumentation: Analog and digital communication – Previous Year Questions

7 GATE previous year questions on Analog and digital communication (Communication and Optical Instrumentation, Instrumentation Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2021 IN Q31 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A tone-modulated AM signal has modulation index 0.6. Its power efficiency is % (one decimal place).
  2. GATE 2021 IN Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A signal of bandwidth 5 MHz is transmitted by PCM. It is sampled 50% above the Nyquist rate and quantized into 256 levels. Its binary pulse rate is…
  3. GATE 2022 IN Q16 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A sinusoidal carrier with amplitude A c and frequency f c is amplitude modulated by m(t) with 0<f m f c, giving s(t)=A c[1+m(t)](2 f ct). Which…
  4. GATE 2022 IN Q26 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Consider 24 voice signals being transmitted without latency using time-division multiplexing. If each signal is sampled at 12 kHz and represented by…
  5. GATE 2024 IN Q48 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – In the ultrasonic measurement system shown, transmitter T sends x(t)=(2 f 1t) V toward an object vibrating as m(t)=0.5(2 f 2t) V. Neglecting other…
  6. GATE 2026 IN Q27 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – An analog speech signal contains signals from 200 Hz to 2400 Hz. It is sampled at 6 kHz and quantized with 512 levels for pulse-code modulation (PCM).…
  7. GATE 2026 IN Q52 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – An amplitude-modulated voltage signal x(t) drives a load of 1\ , where x(t)=K(300 t)+L(240 t)+L(360 t). If the efficiency is 60% and the carrier power…