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Digital Pulse Modulation

Elements of Digital Communication Systems:

Fig. 1 Elements of Digital Communication Systems

1. Information Source and Input Transducer:

The source of information can be analog or digital, e.g. analog: audio or
video signal, digital: like teletype signal. In digital communication the signal
produced by this source is converted into digital signal which consists of 1′s
and 0′s. For this we need a source encoder.
2. Source Encoder:
In digital communication we convert the signal from source into digital
signal as mentioned above. The point to remember is we should like to use as
few binary digits as possible to represent the signal. In such a way this
efficient representation of the source output results in little or no redundancy.
This sequence of binary digits is called information sequence.

Source Encoding or Data Compression: the process of efficiently converting

the output of whether analog or digital source into a sequence of binary digits
is known as source encoding.

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 3. Channel Encoder:
The information sequence is passed through the channel encoder. The
purpose of the channel encoder is to introduce, in controlled manner, some
redundancy in the binary information sequence that can be used at the
receiver to overcome the effects of noise and interference encountered in the
transmission on the signal through the channel.
For example take k bits of the information sequence and map that k
bits to unique n bit sequence called code word. The amount of redundancy
introduced is measured by the ratio n/k and the reciprocal of this ratio (k/n) is
known as rate of code or code rate.
4. Digital Modulator:
The binary sequence is passed to digital modulator which in turns convert
the sequence into electric signals so that we can transmit them on channel
(we will see channel later). The digital modulator maps the binary sequences
into signal wave forms , for example if we represent 1 by sin x and 0 by cos x
then we will transmit sin x for 1 and cos x for 0. ( a case similar to BPSK)
5. Channel:
The communication channel is the physical medium that is used for
transmitting signals from transmitter to receiver. In wireless system, this
channel consists of atmosphere , for traditional telephony, this channel is
wired , there are optical channels, under water acoustic channels etc.We
further discriminate this channels on the basis of their property and
characteristics, like AWGN channel etc.
6. Digital Demodulator:
The digital demodulator processes the channel corrupted transmitted
waveform and reduces the waveform to the sequence of numbers that
represents estimates of the transmitted data symbols.
7. Channel Decoder:
This sequence of numbers then passed through the channel decoder
which attempts to reconstruct the original information sequence from the
knowledge of the code used by the channel encoder and the redundancy
contained in the received data

Note: The average probability of a bit error at the output of the decoder is a
measure of the performance of the demodulator – decoder combination.

8. Source Decoder:
At the end, if an analog signal is desired then source decoder tries to
decode the sequence from the knowledge of the encoding algorithm. And
which results in the approximate replica of the input at the transmitter end.

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 9. Output Transducer:
Finally we get the desired signal in desired format analog or digital.

Advantages of digital communication:

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Introduction to Pulse Modulation
What is the need for Pulse Modulation?

 Many Signals in Modern Communication Systems are digital

 Also, analog signals are transmitted digitally.
 Reduced distortion and improvement in signal to noise ratios.
 PAM, PWM, PPM, PCM and DM.
 In CW modulation schemes some parameter of modulated wave varies continuously
with message.
 In Analog pulse modulation some parameter of each pulse is modulated by a
particular sample value of the message.
 Pulse modulation is of two types
o Analog Pulse Modulation
 Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)
 Pulse width Modulation (PWM)
 Pulse Position Modulation (PPM)
o Digital Pulse Modulation
 Pulse code Modulation (PCM)
 Delta Modulation (DM)

Pulse Code Modulation:

Three steps involved in conversion of analog signal to digital signal

 Sampling
 Quantization
 Binary encoding

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 Fig. 2 Conversion of Analog Signal to Digital Signal

Note: Before sampling the signal is filtered to limit bandwidth.

Elements of PCM System:

Fig. 3 Elements of PCM System

Sampling:

 Process of converting analog signal into discrete signal.

 Sampling is common in all pulse modulation techniques

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  The signal is sampled at regular intervals such that each sample is

Analog signal is sampled every 𝑇𝑠 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑠, called sampling interval. 𝑓𝑠=1/𝑇𝑆

proportional to amplitude of signal at that instant
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𝑓𝑠=2𝑓𝑚 is Min. sampling rate called Nyquist rate. Sampled spectrum (𝜔) is
is called sampling rate or sampling frequency.
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Original spectrum is centered at 𝜔=0 and having bandwidth of 𝜔𝑚.

repeating periodically without overlapping.
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𝜔𝑚.
Spectrum can be recovered by passing through low pass filter with cut-off

 For 𝑓𝑠<2𝑓𝑚 sampled spectrum will overlap and cannot be recovered back.
This is called aliasing.

Sampling methods:

 Ideal – An impulse at each sampling instant.

 Natural – A pulse of Short width with varying amplitude.
 Flat Top – Uses sample and hold, like natural but with single amplitude value.

Fig. 4 Types of Sampling

Sampling of band-pass Signals:

 A band-pass signal of bandwidth 2fm can be completely recovered from its

samples. Min. sampling rate =2×𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ

=2×2𝑓𝑚=4𝑓𝑚

 Range of minimum sampling frequencies is in the range of 2×𝐵𝑊 𝑡𝑜 4×𝐵𝑊

Instantaneous Sampling or Impulse Sampling:

 Sampling function is train of spectrum remains constant impulses

throughout frequency range. It is not practical.

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Natural sampling:

 The spectrum is weighted by a sinc function.

 Amplitude of high frequency components reduces.

Flat top sampling:

 Here top of the samples remains constant.

 In the spectrum high frequency components are attenuated due sinc pulse roll
off. This is known as Aperture effect.
 If pulse width increases aperture effect is more i.e. more attenuation of high
frequency components.

Sampling Theorem:

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 Fig. 7 (a) Sampled version of signal x(t)
(b) Reconstruction of x(t) from its samples

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PCM Generator:

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Transmission BW in PCM:

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PCM Receiver:

Quantization
 The quantizing of an analog signal is done by discretizing the signal with a
number of quantization levels.

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  Quantization is representing the sampled values of the amplitude by a finite
set of levels, which means converting a continuous-amplitude sample into a
discrete-time signal
 Both sampling and quantization result in the loss of information.
 The quality of a Quantizer output depends upon the number of quantization
levels used.
 The discrete amplitudes of the quantized output are called as representation levels
or reconstruction levels.
 The spacing between the two adjacent representation levels is called a quantum or
step-size.
 There are two types of Quantization
o Uniform Quantization
o Non-uniform Quantization.
 The type of quantization in which the quantization levels are uniformly spaced
is termed as a Uniform Quantization.
 The type of quantization in which the quantization levels are unequal and mostly
the relation between them is logarithmic, is termed as a Non-uniform
Quantization.

Uniform Quantization:

• There are two types of uniform quantization.

– Mid-Rise type
– Mid-Tread type.
• The following figures represent the two types of uniform quantization.

• The Mid-Rise type is so called because the origin lies in the middle of a raising
part of the stair-case like graph. The quantization levels in this type are even
in number.
• The Mid-tread type is so called because the origin lies in the middle of a
tread of the stair-case like graph. The quantization levels in this type are odd
in number.
• Both the mid-rise and mid-tread type of uniform quantizer is symmetric
about the origin.

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Quantization Noise and Signal to Noise ratio in PCM System:

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Derivation of Maximum Signal to Quantization Noise Ratio for Linear Quantization:

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Non-Uniform Quantization:

In non-uniform quantization, the step size is not fixed. It varies according to

certain law or as per input signal amplitude. The following fig shows the
characteristics of Non uniform quantizer.

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Companding PCM System:
• Non-uniform quantizers are difficult to make and expensive.
• An alternative is to first pass the speech signal through nonlinearity
before quantizing with a uniform quantizer.
• The nonlinearity causes the signal amplitude to be compressed.
– The input to the quantizer will have a more uniform distribution.
• At the receiver, the signal is expanded by an inverse to the nonlinearity.
• The process of compressing and expanding is called Companding.

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Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM):

Redundant Information in PCM:

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Line Coding:

In telecommunication, a line code is a code chosen for use within a

communications system for transmitting a digital signal down a transmission line. Line
coding is often used for digital data transport.

The waveform pattern of voltage or current used to represent the 1s and 0s of

a digital signal on a transmission link is called line encoding. The common types of

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line encoding are unipolar, polar, bipolar and Manchester encoding. Line codes are used
commonly in computer communication networks over short distances.

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Time Division Multiplexing:

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 TDM is immune to nonlinearities in the channel as a source of crosstalk. The
reason for this behaviour is that different message signals are not simultaneously
applied to the channel.

Introduction to Delta Modulation

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Condition for Slope overload distortion occurrence:
Slope overload distortion will occur if

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Expression for Signal to Quantization Noise power ratio for Delta
Modulation:

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