Notes: Digital Communication

Cards (55)

  • information formatted in human or machine readable form
    data
  • continuous valued at some interval
    analog data
  • discrete valued at given interval
    digital data
  • electric or electromagnetic representation of data
    signal
  • continuous time, infinite value
    analog signal
  • discrete time, finite value
    digital signal
  • efficient use of bandwidth
    information theory
  • measure of how much information can be propagated through a communication system
    information capacity
  • I=kBt
    Hartley
  • C=2Blog2(M)
    Shannon-Hartley
  • must satisfied nyquist rate
    sampling
  • where error occurs due to approximation
    quantization
  • to minimize the use of bandwidth
    coding
  • combines coding and modulation
    tcm
  • susceptible to noise
    ask
  • used to obtain noise immunity
    ook
  • with noise immunity
    fsk
  • with very high noise immunity
    psk
  • combination of ask and psk
    qam
  • retain the natural shape of signal which leads to difficulties in processing
    natural
  • has a flat amplitude and implemented through sample and hold
    flat-top
  • smallest possible magnitude that can be decoded by the DAC
    resolution
  • process where in the quantized intervals assigned to the individual PAM samples are converted into binary signals
    coding
  • how efficiently a PCM code is utilized
    coding efficiency
  • ramp waveform
    level
  • each digit, balanced
    digit
  • flash encoders
    word
  • coder and decoder
    codec
  • encode the minimum amount of speech information to reproduce a perceptible message
    vocoders
  • speech waveforms
    channel
  • determine the location of peak frequencies
    formant
  • extract the most significant portions of speech
    linear
  • process of compressing and expanding of signal
    companding
  • analog companding used in US and Japan
    mu law
  • analog companding used in Europe
    A law
  • approximated by staircase function and uses single bit for transmission
    delta modulation
  • delta is automatically varied in accordance to amplitude of input signal
    adaptive delta modulation
  • makes the signal suitable for transmission
    modulator
  • symbol rate
    baud rate
  • speed at which bits is transmitted
    bit rate