Misplaced Pages

Pulse-code modulation

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ap (talk | contribs) at 19:31, 4 December 2001 (further expanded). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 19:31, 4 December 2001 by Ap (talk | contribs) (further expanded)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) is a digital representation of an analog signal. The signal is sampled at a sampling frequency fs. This means the value of the signal, a sample, is captured at uniform distances T (= 1/fs). Every sample is quantised to a discrete number of possible values.


PCM is used in digital telephone systems or for digital audio recording on compact discs CD.



See modulation for other examples of modulation techniques.



/Talk