Tutorial Chapter 4 Noise
Tutorial Chapter 4 Noise
5. A microphone has output value of -50dBm, calculate the actual output power?
6. Complete the table below:
Power in mW In dBm In dBW
0.01
0.1
0.5
1
2
10
100
1000
7. Calculate the thermal noise power available from any resistor at room temperature
(290K) for a bandwidth of 1 MHz. Calculate also the corresponding noise voltage, given
that R = 50 Ohm
8. For an electronic device operating at a temperature of 17oC with a bandwidth of 100
MHz, determine
a. Thermal noise power in watts and dBm
b. noise voltage for a 100 W internal resistance.
9. Two resistor of 20k and 50 k are at room temperature (290K). For a bandwidth of
100kHz, calculate the thermal noise voltage generated by
a. each resistor
b. the two resistor in series
c. the two resistor in parallel
10. A power amplifier has an output power of 200 W and an input power of 8W. What is the
power gain in decibels?
11. A power amplifier has a gain of 55 dB. The input power is 600 mW. What is the output
power in W?
12. An amplifier has an output power of 5W. What is this amount of power in dBm?
13. A communication system has five stages, with gains and attenuations of 12 dB, -45 dB,
68 dB, -31 dB and 9 dB.
a. What is the overall gain in dB (AT,dB)?
b. The overall power gain (AT)?
c. If the input power is 1 dBm, what is the output power in dBm?
14. The signal input power to a receiver is 6 W. The noise power is 25 mW. What is the
SNR? What is SNRdB?
15. A receiver’s sensitivity is the minimum received signal power for the receiver to
successfully recover the transmitted signal. If a receiver’s sensitivity is -45 dBm, and the
received power is 10 μW, will the receiver be able to recover the transmitted signal?
16. The input signal to a telecommunications receiver consists of 100µW of signal power and
1µW of noise power. The receiver contributes an additional 80µW of noise, ND, and has
a power gain of 20 dB. Compute the input SNR, the output SNR and the receiver’s noise
figure.
17. For an amplifier with an output signal power of 10W and an input noise power of 0.01W,
determine the SNR.
18. For an amplifier with an output signal voltage of 4V, an output noise voltage of 0.005V
and an input and output resistance of 50Ω, determine the SNR.
19. A receiver with a 75 ohm input resistance operates at a temperature of 31°C. The
received signal is at 89 MHz with a bandwidth of 6 MHz. The received signal voltage of
8.3 μV is applied to an amplifier with a noise figure of 2.8 dB. Find
(a) the input noise power,
(b) the input signal power,
(c) Input SNR, in decibels,
(d) the noise ratio and SNR of the amplifier (output),
(e) the noise temperature of the amplifier.
20. Determine the overall noise ratio and noise figure for a three cascaded amplifiers as
shown below. Then, find the output SNR in dB at the final stage if the input SNR to the
whole system is 35dB.
21. Determine the overall noise ratio and noise figure for a three cascaded amplifiers as
shown below. Then, find the input SNR in dB at the final stage if the output SNR to the
whole system is 47dB.