The following resources come from the 2009/10 BEng (Hons) in Digital Communications & Electronics (course number 2ELE0064) from the University of Hertfordshire. All the mini projects are designed as level two modules of the undergraduate programmes.
The objective of this module is to have built communication links using existing AM modulation, PSK modulation and demodulation blocks, constructed AM modulators and constructed PSK modulators using operational function blocks based on their mathematical expressions, and conducted simulations of the links and modulators, all in Simulink®.
6. Types of modulation Modulation techniques for analogue signals Modulation techniques for digital signals
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9. Digital Modulation - Carrier In digital modulation, one of the properties of the carrier (amplitude, frequency or phase) is changed according to the modulating (or information or message) signal +A -A T c t c(t)
10. Four main modulation techniques Changing amplitude (A c ) of carrier according to modulating signal Changing phase ( c ) of carrier according to modulating signal Changing frequency (f c ) of carrier according to modulating signal Combination of ASK and PSK
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14. Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) ctd… Information or message or baseband data Carrier wave or carrier Data stream: BFSK waveform (bandpass signal) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
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17. Phase Shift Keying (PSK) ctd… c = 0 rad (=0 ) c = rad (=180 ) t t c(t) c(t+ ) t t c = 3 /2 rad (=270 ) c = /2 rad (=90 ) c(t+ 3 /2) c(t+ /2)
18. Phase Shift Keying (PSK) ctd… Binary PSK (BPSK) represents ones and zeros by shifting the phase by 1 and 2 Binary zero phase 1 (0 rad or 0 ) Binary one phase 2 ( rad or 180 ) PSK phase of carrier is changed according to modulating signal
19. Phase Shift Keying (PSK) ctd… Information or message or baseband data Carrier wave or carrier Data stream: BPSK waveform (bandpass signal) 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
20. PSK: Phasor or vector diagrams (constellation diagram) =0 rad =0 = 2 rad =360 = /2 rad =90 = rad =180 =3 /2 rad =270
21. BPSK: Phasor or vector diagram (constellation diagram) m 1 m 2 Binary: two possible states m 1 and m 2 Euclidean distance: distance between two message points =0 = /2 = =3 /2 Decision region 1 Decision region 2 Decision boundary
22. Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) - Phasor or vector diagram =0 = /2 = =3 /2 m 1 m 2 Quadrature: four possible states m 1 , m 2 ,m 3 and m 4 m 4 m 3 Decision region 1 Decision region 2 Decision region 3 Decision region 4 Decision boundary Decision boundary
23. M-ary Phase Shift Keying (MPSK) - Phasor or vector diagram =0 = /2 = =3 /2 m 1 m 3 M-ary: M possible states m 1 , m 2 , m 3 , … m M m 7 m 5 m 8 m 6 m 4 m 2 Signal constellation for 8-PSK Region 1 Region 8 Region 4 Region 2 Region 7 Region 3 Region 5 Region 6