Paper format: Professional Engineers Ontario / EGBC national examination
07-Elec-A3 — Signals and Communications, May 2016. Closed book (a standard
non-programmable calculator is the only aid permitted), 3 hours. Six questions of equal value
(20 marks each); any five constitute a complete paper. All six are solved below, because the
set is intended as a study resource.
Reference texts.
- B. P. Lathi and Z. Ding, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems, 4th ed.,
Oxford University Press — Ch. 3 (signal transmission), Ch. 4 (amplitude modulation),
Ch. 5 (angle modulation), Ch. 6 (sampling and PCM).
- S. Haykin and M. Moher, Communication Systems, 5th ed., Wiley — Ch. 3
(amplitude modulation), Ch. 4 (angle modulation), Ch. 5 (pulse modulation and PCM).
- A. V. Oppenheim and A. S. Willsky, Signals and Systems, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall
— Ch. 4 (continuous-time Fourier transform), Ch. 10 (the z-transform).
- J. G. Proakis and D. G. Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing, 4th ed., Pearson
— Ch. 3 (z-transform), Ch. 7 (structures for discrete-time systems).
