EE 352 – Lab 3: Conventional Amplitude Modulation
3 Labwork (Conventional Amplitude Modulation/Demodulation) 3.1 Preliminaries
In order to modulate a message signal with conventional AM, first multiply the message signal m(t) with modulation factor ka. Then, add to this signal one. After the addition of one, multiply this signal with a carrier signal c(t) = Accos(2πfct) to obtain the modulated signal.
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Figure 1: Modulation of Conventional AM
In order to demodulate this signal, first, take the square of the modulated signal. Then, filter this squared signal with a low pass filter (LPF). After taking the square root of the filtered signal, reach an estimate of the message signal. This technique is called Square-Law detector.
Figure 2: Demodulation of Conventional AM
3.2 Conventional Amplitude Modulation
(a) Obtain the time vector with the duration of t = 0.1 seconds and with the sampling frequency of Fs = 10000 Hz.
(b) Generate a carrier signal c(t) = Accos(2πfct) and a message signal m(t) = Amcos(2πfmt) where Am =Ac =1andfm =100Hzandfc =1000Hzwithrespecttotimevectorobtainedin(a).
(c) Obtain the modulated signal, s(t).
- (d) Plot the modulated signal s(t) for three modulation factors namely 0.5,1 and 2 in the same figure by
using subplot.
- (e) Comment on the effects of the modulation factors.
- (f) Plot the magnitude of the frequency responses of m(t),c(t) and s(t) for ka = 0.5 in the same figure by using subplot.
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EE 352 – Lab 3: Conventional Amplitude Modulation
3.3 Conventional AM Demodulation
- (a) Demodulate the modulated signal s(t) when ka = 0.9 and ka = 2 by following the steps given in the preliminaries. Hint: You can use butter(.) with the suitable filter order and cut off frequency and filter(.) functions.
- (b) Comment on your choice of the filter order and the cut off frequency.
- (c) Plot the demodulated signals in the same figure by using subplot.
- (d) Comment on the the results that you obtain in (c).



