Digital Modulation with introduction to ASK, FSK and PSK
Firstly, what do we mean by digital modulation? Typically the objective of a digital communication system is to transport digital data between two or more nodes. In radio communications this is usually achieved by adjusting a physical characteristic of a sinusoidal carrier, either the frequency, phase, amplitude. This is performed in real systems with a modulator at the transmitting end to impose the physical change to the carrier and a demodulator at the receiving end to detect the resultant modulation on reception. We begin our discussion by three basic types of digital modulations:
- ASK [Amplitude Shift Keying]
- FSK [Frequency Shift Keying]
- PSK [Phase Shift Keying]
A sinusoid has three parameters that can be varied, these are amplitude ,phase and frequency.
- In FSK we change the frequency in response to information. One particular frequency for ‘1’ and another frequency for ‘0’.
- In PSK, we change the phase of carrier signal to indicate information.
- In ASK amplitude of carrier is changed in response to information n all else is kept fixed. Bit ‘1’ is transmitted by a carrier of one particular amplitude.To transmit ‘0’ we change the amplitude
Posted by Sadaf Dilshad Khan
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