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Unit1 Module 1 EC214 Digital Communication

This document provides an overview of a lecture on digital communication systems. It discusses: 1. The course instructor details, including the name and department of the professor giving the lecture. 2. The agenda for the lecture, which includes an introduction to digital communication systems and a recap of information sources and signals. 3. Some key advantages of digital communication over analog communication systems, such as robustness to channel impairments and the ability to regenerate signals.
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Unit1 Module 1 EC214 Digital Communication

This document provides an overview of a lecture on digital communication systems. It discusses: 1. The course instructor details, including the name and department of the professor giving the lecture. 2. The agenda for the lecture, which includes an introduction to digital communication systems and a recap of information sources and signals. 3. Some key advantages of digital communication over analog communication systems, such as robustness to channel impairments and the ability to regenerate signals.
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EC214 Digital

Communication
lecture -1
Course Instructor Details
Dr.K. Jayanthi
Professor, Dept. of ECE
Puducherry Technological University
Today’s Agenda

• Introduction to digital Communication Systems

• Why digital communication over analog?

• Recap - Information Sources and signals

• Basic Signal Processing operations

• Formatting operations
Analog vs digital Signals
Spectra of a digital signal
Channel effects on Analog Vs Digital
signal
Why digital ?
• Robustness to channel impairments
• Digital techniques need to distinguish between
discrete symbols allowing regeneration versus
amplification.
Biggest advantage of digital over analog
• Easy to regenerate the distorted signal
• Regenerative repeaters along the transmission path can detect
a digital signal and retransmit a new, clean (noise free) signal
• These repeaters prevent accumulation of noise along the path
• This is not possible with analog communication systems – Two-
state signal representation
Why digital ?
• Good processing techniques are available for digital
signals:
Data compression (or source coding)
Error Correction (or channel coding)(A/D conversion)
Equalization
Security
• Easy to mix signals and data using digital techniques
• Cost effective digital implementations
• Digital hardware implementation is flexible and permits the use of
microprocessors, mini-processors, digital switching and VLSI like FPGA/ DSP.
Disadvantages in Digital comm.
• Requires larger bandwidth
• Requires reliable “synchronization” Requires Complex
• Requires A/D conversions at high rate signal conditioning
Information sources

• Types of Sources: Analog source and digital source - Data

• Examples of data/information: Voice, video, text , multimedia

• Why Formatting step essential?


Data

• Analog
• e.g. sound,
video
• Digital
• e.g. text,
integers

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Possible combinations of signals vs data
• Digital data, digital signal
• Analog data, digital signal
• Digital data, analog signal
• Analog data, analog signal

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Data vs signal
Analog Signals Carrying Analog and
Digital Data

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Digital Signals Carrying Analog and
Digital Data

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Formatting

• Why formatting ?
 To make the source signal compatible with digital processing.

• The first processing step in digital communication is Formatting: It includes


• Sampling
• Quantisation
• Coding

Process of Transformation from source info to digital symbols such that the
source is compatible with digital processing
Points to remember
• Analog data – need the entire formatting process ( sampling,
quantisation and encoding)
• Digital data – no formatting needed
• Eg: textual / alphanumeric character - character coding (eg:ASCII,
EBCDIC )
• For digital transmission, the characters are first encoded into a sequence
of bits called bit stream.
• Group of bits – symbols , eg: group of k bits can form 1 symbol in the
finite set of M .where M = 2k
textual / alphanumeric character -
character coding
Modes of Transmission
• Simplex
– In only one direction from transmitter to receiver
– Example: radio
• Half-Duplex
– Two-way communications but in only one direction
at a time
– Example: walkie-talkie
• Full-Duplex
– Simultaneous two-way communications
– Example: videoconferencing

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Serial versus Parallel Transmission
• Serial
• Transmitting bits one after another along a single
path
• Slow, cost-effective, has relatively few errors,
practical for long distances
• Parallel
• Transmitting a group of bits at a single instant in
time, which requires multiple paths.
• Fast but expensive, practical for short distances

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Basic signal processing
Formatting - what, why and How?
• What is Formatting?
• Before the signals are transmitted over a digital communication channel,
an information bearing signal must be converted to digital symbols.
• Process of transforming source information into digital symbols
• Why formatting?
It makes the source signal compatible with digital processing.
• How formatting is achieved?
• Sampling * Quantisation * Encoding
• What is next to Formatting?
• Subsequently, the resulting digital symbols are then represented by baseband
waveforms
Concept of Sampling
• Sampling is a fundamental operation that is
basic to DSP and digital communication
• Through sampling process, an analog signal
is converted into a corresponding sequence
of samples that are usually spaced
uniformly in time.
• This discretization of analog signal is called
as Sampling.
Significance of sampling
Illustration of a proper Sampling
process
Ideal sampling
Inferences from sampled spectrum
• The spectrum of the sampled signal within a constant factor
(1/Ts) is exactly the same as the original analog signal
•  The process of signal sampling a continuous time signal of
finite energy results in a periodic spectrum with a period equal
to the sampling rate.
• Recovery ??
Sampling theorem

• A band-limited signal having no spectral component above fm


hertz can be determined uniquely by value sampled at uniform
intervals of Ts seconds.

• Ts<=1/2fm (or) fs >=2fm

• The spectrum of the sampled signal within a constant factor


(1/Ts) is exactly the same as the original analog.
A practical approach – natural sampling
• Although instantaneous/ideal sampling is a convenient model,
a more practical way of accomplishng the sampling of a analog
signal x(t) is by using a pulse train or a switching waveform
Xp(t).
• Each pulse in xp(t) has a width T and amplitude 1/T.
• This sampling is termed as natural sampling since the top of
each pulse in xs(t) sequence retains the shape of its
corresponding analog sequence during the pulse interval.
Natural sampling

 The output of the sampling


process is called PAM
because the successive o/p
intervals can be described as
a sequence of pulses with
amplitude derived from the
i/p waveform.
Reconstruction of samples
• Each spectral replicate is separated form each of its neighbour
by a frequency band equal to fs hertz
• The analog waveform can be completely recovered from the
sampler by use of LPF.
• Analysis of different cases.
CASE 1: when fS =2fm

CASE1: when fs =2fm , a filter with infinitely steep sides would be required
CASE2: when fS >2fm

Since the replications are farther apart in frequency and hence the LP
filter can be performed easily
CASE3: when fS <2fm

when fs<fm , the replications overlap and information is lost the


result of under sampling is called aliasing
Problems encountered in improper
choice of sampling frequency ???
Aliasing concept
• The Nyquist rate f =2f is the sampling rate below which aliasing
s m

occurs.

SOLUTION:
1) A higher sampling rate f can eliminate the aliasing by separating the
s

spectral replicas.
2) Antiliasing filters:
Antiliasing pre-filtering , post-filtering
• The analog signal is pre-filtered so that the new max freq f is reduced
m

to f /2 or less so that the aliasing components are totally eliminated.


s
Step: 2 Quantization
Quantisation Process
• Any real world analog signal has a continuous range of
amplitudes that corresponds to infinite number of amplitude
levels.
• The sampled continuous signal also has a continuous amplitude
range represented by a infinite number of amplitude levels.
• What is Quantisation ?
• It is defined as the process of transforming the amplitude of a
sample into a discrete amplitude taken from finite set of
possible amplitudes.
Significance of quantisation?
• Why Quantisation ?
• The sampled signal is not compatible with a digital system .
• A digital system always deals with finite no .of symbols or
amplitude levels.

• How is Quantisation achieved?


• Quantiser
Quantisation Process
• The quantiser g(.) maps the input random variable m of
continuous amplitude samples into discrete random variable V
(discrete sample).

o At the quantiser output, the index ‘k’ is transformed into an amplitude ‘Vk ‘ and they are called
representation levels or quantisation levels or reconstruction levels.
Where ‘k’ represents the decision levels / quantisation levels. The mapping v=g(m) is the quantiser
characteristics which is usually a staircase function.
Illustration of Quantisation

o The spacing between two adjacent


representation levels is called quantum
size or step-size.
I/O characteristics – quantiser
• In the input -output
characteristic of uniform
quantiser, is a staircase
function.
• The origin lies in the middle
of the rising part of staircase
function.
• Let there be 'L' levels for an
analog signal with Vp-p=2Vp.
Quantiser Types

• Uniform type and Non-


uniform type
1. Uniform type if
the step size is uniformly
spaced  mid-thread and mid-
rise.

2. Non-uniform typeif
the step size is not uniform.
Quantisation noise

•The quantisation process introduces some error defined to as the difference
between the input signal m and the output signal V.

Let the input sample Value be m and the output sample value be v.

q=m-v
•Let the input 'm' of continuous amplitude lie in the range of ( - V V ,+ ).
max max

•Then the step size of the quantiser is given by,

Δ=2 V / max

L
• Ltotal no.of
representation levels.
Practical example – Quantization error

For uniform quantiser, the approximation will result in an error not larger than ± Δ/2 .

Thus the degradation is limited to half the step and hence the quantization error is
bounded to size ±Δ/2.
{-Δ/2 ≤ q ≤ +Δ/2}
What about errors due to quantization?
• It is not necessary in fact to
transmit the exact amplitudes
of the samples.
• Because, any human sense can
detect only the finite intensity
difference.
• This means the original
continuous signal may be
approximated by a signal
constructed of discrete
amplitudes.
To reduce Q- error
Solution:
For sufficiently small step size or if the no. of
representation levels are larger, the error is much
reduced and is uniformly distributed.
Non-uniform quantisation
Non –uniform quantisation
• Non-uniform Quantisation
• Compression – ( M law and A-law)
• Companding and expanding
Step 3: Encoding
Coding the Quantiser output
Steps involved in Formatting process
End of formatting
References
• https://www.powershow.com/viewht/55e279-ZjU1M/
Fundamentals_of_Digital_Communication_powerpoint_ppt_pre
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• https://www.iare.ac.in/sites/default/files/PPT/IARE_DC_PPT.
pdf
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