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2TYPES OF PULSE MODULATION
3Pulse Amplitude Modulation
- Pulse-amplitude modulation, acronym PAM, is a
form of signal modulation where the message
information is encoded in the amplitude of a
series of signal pulses. - Example A two-bit modulator (PAM-4) will take
two bits at a time and will map the signal
amplitude to one of four possible levels, for
example -3 volts, -1 volt, 1 volt, and 3 volts. - Demodulation is performed by detecting the
amplitude level of the carrier at every symbol
period.
4Types Of PAM
- There are two types of pulse amplitude
modulation - 1.Single polarity PAM In this a suitable fixed
dc level is added to the signal to ensure that
all the pulses are positive going. - 2.Double polarity PAM In this the pulses are
both positive and negative going. - Pulse-amplitude modulation is widely used in
baseband transmission of digital data, with
non-baseband applications having been largely
replaced by pulse-code modulation, and, more
recently, by pulse-position modulation.
5Use in Ethernet
- Some versions of the Ethernet communication
standard are an example of PAM usage. - In particular, the Fast Ethernet 100BASE-T2
medium (now defunct), running at 100 Mbit/s, uses
five-level PAM modulation (PAM-5) running at 25
megapulses/sec over two wire pairs. - A special technique is used to reduce
inter-symbol interference between the unshielded
pairs.citation needed. - Later, the gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T medium
raised the bar to use four pairs of wire running
each at 125 megapulses/sec to achieve 1000 Mbit/s
data rates, still utilizing PAM-5 for each pair.
6Use in photobiology
- The concept is also used for the study of
photosynthesis using a PAM fluorometer. - This specialized instrument involves a
spectrofluorometric measurement of the kinetics
of fluorescence rise and decay in the
light-harvesting antenna of thylakoid membranes,
thus querying various aspects of the state of the
photosystems under different environmental
conditions.
7Use in electronic drivers for LED lighting
- Pulse-amplitude modulation has also been
developed for the control of light-emitting
diodes (LEDs), especially for lighting
applications. - LED drivers based on the PAM technique offer
improved energy efficiency over systems based
upon other common driver modulation techniques
such as pulse-width modulation (PWM) as the
forward current passing through an LED is
relative to the intensity of the light output and
the LED efficiency increases as the forward
current is reduced. - Pulse-amplitude modulation LED drivers are able
to synchronize pulses across multiple LED
channels to enable perfect colour matching. Due
to the inherent nature of PAM in conjunction with
the rapid switching speed of LEDs it is possible
to use LED lighting as a means of wireless data
transmission at high speed.
8Pulse Width Modulation
- Pulse-width modulation (PWM), or pulse-duration
modulation (PDM), is a commonly used technique
for controlling power to inertial electrical
devices, made practical by modern electronic
power switches. - The PWM switching frequency has to be much faster
than what would affect the load, which is to say
the device that uses the power. - The main advantage of PWM is that power loss in
the switching devices is very low. - PWM has also been used in certain communication
systems where its duty cycle has been used to
convey information over a communications channel.
9Types of PWM
- Three types of pulse-width modulation (PWM) are
possible - The pulse center may be fixed in the center of
the time window and both edges of the pulse moved
to compress or expand the width. - The lead edge can be held at the lead edge of the
window and the tail edge modulated. - The tail edge can be fixed and the lead edge
modulated.
10Principle
- Pulse-width modulation uses a rectangular pulse
wave whose pulse width is modulated resulting in
the variation of the average value of the
waveform. - The simplest way to generate a PWM signal is the
intersective method, which requires only a
sawtooth or a triangle waveform (easily generated
using a simple oscillator) and a comparator - When the value of the reference signal (the red
sine wave in figure 2) is more than the
modulation waveform (blue), the PWM signal
(magenta) is in the high state, otherwise it is
in the low state.
11Applications
12Telecommunications
- In telecommunications, the widths of the pulses
correspond to specific data values encoded at one
end and decoded at the other. - Pulses of various lengths (the information
itself) will be sent at regular intervals (the
carrier frequency of the modulation). - The inclusion of a clock signal is not necessary,
as the leading edge of the data signal can be
used as the clock if a small offset is added to
the data value in order to avoid a data value
with a zero length pulse.
13Power delivery
- PWM can be used to control the amount of power
delivered to a load without incurring the losses
that would result from linear power delivery by
resistive means. - Potential drawbacks to this technique are the
pulsations defined by the duty cycle, switching
frequency and properties of the load. - With a sufficiently high switching frequency and,
when necessary, using additional passive
electronic filters, the pulse train can be
smoothed and average analog waveform recovered.
14Voltage regulation
- PWM is also used in efficient voltage regulators.
- By switching voltage to the load with the
appropriate duty cycle, the output will
approximate a voltage at the desired level. The
switching noise is usually filtered with an
inductor and a capacitor. ne method measures the
output voltage. - When it is lower than the desired voltage, it
turns on the switch. When the output voltage is
above the desired voltage, it turns off the
switch.
15Audio effects and amplification
- PWM is sometimes used in sound (music) synthesis,
in particular subtractive synthesis, as it gives
a sound effect similar to chorus or slightly
detuned oscillators played together. - he ratio between the high and low level is
typically modulated with a low frequency
oscillator, or LFO. - In addition, varying the duty cycle of a pulse
waveform in a subtractive-synthesis instrument
creates useful timbral variations.
16Applications for RF communications
- Narrowband RF (radio frequency) channels with low
power and long wavelengths (i.e., low frequency)
are affected primarily by flat fading, and PPM is
better suited than M-FSK to be used in these
scenarios. - One common application with these channel
characteristics, first used in the early 1960s,
is the radio control of model aircraft, boats and
cars. - PPM is employed in these systems, with the
position of each pulse representing the angular
position of an analogue control on the
transmitter, or possible states of a binary
switch.
17- The number of pulses per frame gives the number
of controllable channels available. - The advantage of using PPM for this type of
application is that the electronics required to
decode the signal are extremely simple, which
leads to small, light-weight receiver/decoder
units. - Servos made for model radio control include some
of the electronics required to convert the pulse
to the motor position the receiver is merely
required to demultiplex the separate channels and
feed the pulses to each servo.
18- More sophisticated R/C systems are now often
based on pulse-code modulation, which is more
complex but offers greater flexibility and
reliability. - Pulse position modulation is also used for
communication to the ISO/IEC 15693 contactless
smart card as well as the HF implementation of
the EPC Class 1 protocol for RFID tags.
19Pulse Position Modulation
- Pulse-position modulation (PPM) is a form of
signal modulation in which M message bits are
encoded by transmitting a single pulse in one of
possible time-shifts - One of the key difficulties of implementing this
technique is that the receiver must be properly
synchronized to align the local clock with the
beginning of each symbol. Therefore, it is often
implemented differentially as differential
pulse-position modulation, whereby each pulse
position is encoded relative to the previous,
such that the receiver must only measure the
difference in the arrival time of successive
pulses. - It is possible to limit the propagation of errors
to adjacent symbols, so that an error in
measuring the differential delay of one pulse
will affect only two symbols, instead of
affecting all successive measurements.
20Illustration of PAM, PWM and PPM(a) is input
(information) signal
21Time division multiplexing of two PAM signals
22Effects of noise on pulses(a) effect on PAM only
for ideal pulses(b) effect on PWM PPM for
practical pulses
23Natural sampling in t- and f-domains
24Flat topped sampling (PAM) in t- and f-domains
25A definition of baseband and bandpass signals
26Relationship between PAM, quantised PAM and PCM
signals
27Input/output SNR for PCM
28Delta PCM transmitter and receiver
29Quantisation error interpreted as noise, i.e.
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