Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE format:nat PYQs
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Questions 11–20 of 239. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 63
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The average bit error rate at the input of a (7, 4, 1) Hamming decoder is 0.10. The probability that the decoder will fail to decode a received word correctly is ___. (rounded off to two decimal places)
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Consider that the concentration of electrons in a semiconductor bar varies linearly from
at
to
at
along the x-direction. Assume that the concentration of electrons is not varying along other directions (that is along y- and z-directions). [Given: the mobility of electron is
, thermal voltage is
and electron charge is
Coulomb.] The density of electron diffusion current (in A/mm
) is ___. (rounded off to two decimal places)Log in to check the answer
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Consider the ideal diodes D1 and D2 as shown in the Figure with cut-in voltage
Volt and
in Volt. The maximum voltage (Volt) of the output
is ___. (rounded off to two decimal places) 
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The function
satisfies
where
and
denote the first and second derivatives of
, respectively.Given
and
, the maximum value of
over
is _____ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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The generator matrix of a
binary linear block code is given below.
The minimum Hamming distance
between codewords equals _____ (answer in integer).Log in to check the answer
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All the components in the bandpass filter given below are ideal. The lower
frequency of the filter is 1 MHz.The upper
frequency (in MHz, rounded off to the nearest integer) is ________. 
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A 4-bit weighted-resistor DAC with inputs
,
,
, and
(MSB to LSB) is designed using an ideal op amp, as shown below. The switches are closed when the corresponding input bits are logic ‘1’ and open otherwise.When the input
changes from 1110 to 1101, the magnitude of the change in the output voltage
(in mV, rounded off to the nearest integer) is ________. 
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Two fair dice (with faces labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) are rolled. Let the random variable
denote the sum of the outcomes obtained.The expectation of
is ______ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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Consider the vectors
For real-valued scalar variable
, the value of
is __________ (rounded off to two decimal places).
denotes the Euclidean norm, i.e., for
,
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and
are Bernoulli random variables taking values in
. The joint probability mass function of the random variables is given by:
The mutual information
is __________ (rounded off to two decimal places).Log in to check the answer
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