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At the advent of modern technology, Digital communication is one of the most secure and safe information transmission system in both at work place and at home. Pulse Amplitude Modulation is one of the simplest form of pulse modulation techniques employed in digital communication. It is extensively used in telecommunications as an intermediate stage of other techniques such as pulse code modulation which is used in Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), time division multiplexing.
Objectives
The purposes of the experiment described here are as follows 1.) To implement pulse amplitude modulation & demodulation circuit practically. 2.) To observe the effects of clock frequency on demodulated wave. 3.) To observe the effect of duty cycle of clock on demodulated wave.
Circuit Description
Pulse Amplitude Modulation is a technique that describes the conversion of an analog signal to a pulse-type signal where the amplitude of pulse denote the analog information. This analog information is represented by sine wave in the experiment which is also called modulating signal. The PAM waveform is generated by applying a modulating signal as well as a clock (sampling) signal to analog switch simultaneously as shown in figure-1,
Observations
The message signal is kept unchanged all through the experiment and shown below,
The clock signal used as well as associated PAM waveform are shown below
When fc = 2fm,
CH1: Signal.
Demodulated
signal
900Hz,
From figure 5, we see that sampling with double frequency gives two samples per cycle and input continuous message signal is determined by its samples at the output of Low pass Butterworth filter, having higher cut-off frequency 1 KHz. The reconstructed signal is noisy but still truly similar to input signal. So, the value of clock frequency is acceptable. Acceptable fc value = 1.8 KHz (for 900Hz message signal)
Clock frequency higher than 1.8 KHz is desirable but too much higher value will definitely increases the bandwidth required. Therefore we need to compromise and choose a moderate clock frequency.
CH1: Signal.
Demodulated
CH2: PAM Signal With Message signal 1.3 KHz, 1.04Vpp Clock 1.8 KHz, DT=30%.
Figure 6:PAM waveform and its demodulation
From figure 6, we observe that reconstructed signal is strongly distorted. So the value of clock frequency is unacceptable. Unacceptable value of fc = 1.8 KHz (for 1.3 KHz message signal)
Finally, we can conclude that for acceptable PAM signal transmission Nyquist sampling rate [i.e. fc > = 2fm] must be maintained.
a result noise severely affects the message signal during transmission and demodulation.
CH2: PAM Modulated Signal with clock 1.866 KHz (DT=30%), Message signal 200Hz.
Figure 7
CH1: Signal.
Demodulated
CH2: PAM Modulated Signal with clock 1.969KHz (DT=83%), Message signal 200Hz.
Figure 8
Discussion
PAM modulation natural sampling is relatively easy circuit to implement but it took 4 weeks for me to complete. A lot of difficulties came such as selection of switch for sampling [transistor switching didnt give satisfactory results] finding the appropriate value of capacitor at the input of analog switch generation of constant frequency with variable duty cycle clock signal
Though the Astable configuration of ne555 IC provides clock signal with variable duty cycle, frequency of clock signal also changes simultaneously. Therefore a 50K variable resistor is added among the pins 6, 7, 8, of ne555 IC. With this configuration, frequency still varied but deviation was small.
Conclusion
Finally, The PAM modulation and demodulation with 2nd order Butter worth low pass filter has been implemented. The consequences of duty cycle as well as frequency variation have also been observed.
References
LEON W. COACH II, Digital and Analog Communication Systems, fifth edition, Prentice-Hall International, INC. Websites 1) www.scientech.bz 2) www.circuitlab.com
APPARTUS LIST:
NO. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. COMPONENTS NAME Power Supply DC 5V IC IC IC Resistors Capacitors MODEL NO. CD-4066 UA741 NE555 1k, 27k, 33k, 10k, 50kohms variable. 10nf,100nf,4.7nf Quantity 2 pcs 1 pc 2 pcs 1 pc 10 pcs 6 pcs