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A Single PDF File: EE 448 Midterm Exam

This document provides instructions for the EE 448 Midterm Exam to be taken on March 23, 2020. Students are to submit a single PDF file by the deadline with their name and solutions. The exam consists of 7 multi-part problems testing topics including signal sketching, convolution, linear time-invariant systems, the discrete Fourier transform, and sampling. Students are to show all work for full credit and label answers clearly.

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A Single PDF File: EE 448 Midterm Exam

This document provides instructions for the EE 448 Midterm Exam to be taken on March 23, 2020. Students are to submit a single PDF file by the deadline with their name and solutions. The exam consists of 7 multi-part problems testing topics including signal sketching, convolution, linear time-invariant systems, the discrete Fourier transform, and sampling. Students are to show all work for full credit and label answers clearly.

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EE 448 Midterm Exam

March 23, 2020

Instructions:
• Submit your solution by the deadline posted on the class website. No late submission will be accepted.
• Please sign the Honor System Pledge on the front page of your solution: “I pledge my honor that I have abided by
the Stevens Honor System.”
• Order your solution and submit a single PDF file. Please follow the instructions described in the 3/16 class
announcement on how to combine your solutions into a single PDF file.
• Name your PDF file using the format: 448 Lastname Firstname.pdf, e.g., 448 Smith John.pdf.
• Send your PDF file to both Teacher (Hongbin Li) and Teaching Assistant (Yushu Yan) in Canvas. Do not send
to our regular email addresses.
• Show all work for full credit. Mark your final answers. Good luck!

x[n] 1
1. (15 points) A discrete-time signal x[n] is sketched below. Sketch
and label carefully each of the following signals: 0.5 0.5
(a) x[n − 2]; -4 -3 -2
(b) x[2 − n]; -1 0 1 2 3 4 n
(c) x[2n];
-0.5
(d) x[−1 − 2n];
-1
(e) xev [n] (the even part of x[n])
2. (10 points) For each of the following signals, determine if it is periodic. If yes, specify the fundamental period; if
not, explain why:
(a) x1 [n] = cos( π4 n); (b) x2 [n] = sin( n3 );
π
(c) x3 [n] = 3 cos( 3 n) + 2 sin(0.27πn + π); (d) x4 [n] = 1 + sin2 ( 2π
5 n).

3. (15 points) Let x[n] = {1, 2, 3}, 0 ≤ n ≤ 2 and h[n] = {2, 0, −1, 0, 1}, 0 ≤ n ≤ 4.
(a) Determine y[n] = x[n] ~ h[n]. Show details for full credit.
(b) Determine the 5-point circular convolution z[n] = x[n] h[n].
5 Show details for full credit.
(c) What is the smallest value of N , such that x[n] h[n]
N = x[n] ~ h[n]? Verify your choice of N by carrying
out the N -point circular convolution.
4. (15 points) Consider an LTI system with input x[n] and output y[n] related to each other by the following difference
equation
1
y[n] = y[n − 1] + x[n]
4
(a) Compute its frequency response H(ejω ).
(b) Compute its impulse response h[n].
(c) Determine its steady-state response when the input is x[n] = 1 + cos(πn + π4 ).
5. (15 points) An analog signal xa (t) has a spectrum Xa (jΩ) sketched below, where Ω1 = 50π, Ω2 = 90π.
(a) Find the smallest sampling frequency so that xa (t) can X a ( j8)
be fully recovered from its sampled version x[n]?
1
(b) Sketch and label carefully the DTFT X(ejω ) of x[n]
obtained by using the smallest sampling rate.

(c) Determine the frequency response of the ideal recon- 82 81 81 82 8
struction filter needed to fully recover xa (t).
6. (15 points) Compute the N -point DFT of the following signals. Show details of calculation for full credit in solving
the following DFT related problems.

(a) x1 [n] = δ[n] + δ[n − 2] (suppose N ≥ 3).


(b) x2 [n] = 1 + sin(2πn/N ) + cos(2πn/N ), 0 ≤ n ≤ N − 1.
(c) x3 [n] = µ[n] − µ[n − N ].

7. (15 points) The system L is known to be linear. Shown below are three output signals y1 [n], y2 [n], and y3 [n] in
response to the inputs signals x1 [n], x2 [n], and x3 [n], respectively.

(a) (8 points) Determine whether the system L could be time-invariant. Justify your answer.
(b) (7 points) If the input x[n] to the system L is δ[n], what is the system response y[n]?

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