For the BJT Q₁ in the circuit shown below, $$\beta = \infty ,\,\,\,\,{V_{BEon\,}}\, = \,0.7V,\,\,\,{V_{CEsat}}\, = \,0.7V.$$. The switch is initially closed. at time t = 0, the switch is opened. The time t at which q₁ leaves the active region is

A four phase and an eight-phase signal constellation are shown in the figure below.

Assuming high SNR and that all signals are equally probable, the additional average transmitted signal energy required by the 8-PSK signal to achieve the same error probability as the 4-PSK signal is

X(t) is a stationary random process with autocorrelation function R_x$$\left( \tau \right)$$= exp$$\left( { - \pi {\tau ^2}} \right)$$. This process is passed through the system shown below. The power spectral density of the output process Y(t) is

An analog signal is band-limited to 4kHz. sampled at the Nyquist rate and the samples are quantized into 4 levels. The quantized levels are assumed to be independent and equally probable, bit rate is