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Al-Mustaqbal University College

Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Experiment No. 2 : Generating Amplitude modulated signal

Objective :
The aim of this experiment is to generate the AM signal using simulation
in MATLAB.
Theory:
Analog Communication is an information transmitting mechanism, i.e.
music, voice, and video using broadcast radio, walkie-talkies, or cellular
radio, and broadcast television. The significant invention made by
Marconi in 1895 was a radio. Later, the foundation of Trans-Atlantic
Communication Systems had been taken place. Although digital
communications systems are much more efficient, cost-saving, more
reliable, some communication systems are still analog.

Analog communication techniques can be summarized as:

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Advantages of modulation:
• Size of the antenna reduces when a signal is modulated by a larger
frequency of a carrier.

• Using modulation to transmit the signal through space to long

distances. Therefore, Wireless Communication techniques has
raised our standards considerably.
• Modulation allows us to transmit multiple signals in the same
medium (i.e. Frequency Division Multiplexing, FDMA)

Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation

Let ωc=2πfc be the carrier frequency in radians per second where

fc>>W. Then the amplitude modulated signal s(t) can be expressed as:

, where μ is the modulation index defined in 0<μ<1

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Demodulator:
The block diagram of synchronous demodulator is as shown

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

In order for the low-pass to detect the information envelope, the

frequency of the carrier must be as high as possible. However, as you can
imagine the noise from the nature (i.e. white noise) cannot be
filtered/removed perfectly in such analog transmissions (AM, or FM).

After the multiplication of s(t)×sin(2πfct)

Then, the low-pass filter removes the higher frequency components, so

we can recover m(t).

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Procedure :
Modulation:

1- Drag the following blocks from Simulink library:

Block Library
Signal generator sources
Constant Commonly used blocks
Add Math operations
Product Math operations
Scope sinks
2- Connect the blocks
3- Run the program

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Results :
Modulating signal :

Carrier signal :

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Modulated signal:

Procedure 2:
For demodulation of AM signal the following steps will be applied:
1- To the previous modulating circuit , we will add the following
blocks:
Blocks Library
Product Math operations
Transfer function Continuous
Scope sinks
2- connect the items
3- run the program

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Al-Mustaqbal University College
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering
Class:3td
Subject: Medical Communication Lab.
Lecturer: Asst. Lect. Mays Khalid
Lecture: 3

Results :
From scope , the output signal will appear and this signal is the
information

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