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Coupling & transmission

Well ,there is a great difference between these two words but may feel same practically! Once my friend Manu thomas was completing his excel project ,perhaps violated some ckt connections .Anyway a "man" call for me had been made .At that time we were completing our project on robotics . Stunned looking at the result! The project included a laser based voice transmitter and receiver . When he had removed the laser somewhat due to some power supply problems related to the laser ,becoz he used the laser torch which is available in market for just 30.00RS at marine drive , and instead of battery ,he used the 3v from the transmitter , connected only for the demonstration .Anyway demonstration completed successfully.The transmission quality was great with the help of laser .When the wire connecting the laser to the transmitter broken it was found that there was a slight change in quality of the sound transmitted,instead of vanishing of received signal.(he used mobile p...

Comparison of human beings and robots

1.Human beings have ears as their sound sensors .Actually they are filters designed for the audio frequencies.Their frequency response is similar to an LC filter with a specific bandwidth. 2.Eyes are filters designed to filter the light frequencies . 3.Skin is a touch sensor . 4.Nose a biological proximity detector. 5.Brain" a biological processor". 6.A great programme running on the brain which teaches it what to do & when.

The "Product Detector"

This device is just another mixer - used for demodulating a signal in a receiver. The term "product" refers to the multiplication of the two input signals - with sum and difference outputs. In the product detector the product signal ie, the dual sideband or single side band signal is again multiplied with the local carrier . NOTE In case of suppressed carrier systems (dont confuse carrier fully suppressed) there is a need to get the carrier at the receiver at same frequency as that of the transmitter and the phase must be same.Hence we need highly stable oscillators free from drift.Such a process called synchronization must be done at the receiver ,which makes the receiver complex.For these reasons a pilot carrier system is preferred ,where the carrier is generated by the LO referring to the pilot carrier. Receiver blockdiagram is available here In the case of AM signals a synchronous demodulator is preferrable because it offers more stability to the s/n ratio.In the synchro...

Theory of mixers

A mixer circuit normally has two inputs - from two separate signal sources. In the diagram below, the sources are two oscillators. Each oscillator is a generator producing a sinewave output, one at frequency f1 and the other at frequency f2. The mixer multiplies the signals together,while the balanced modulator is a combination of 2 mixers. Remember that the output comprises a complex mixture of separate sinewaves at many different frequencies beco'z of the square law equation of the current . The main point to note is that the output comprises the two separate input frequencies f 1 and f 2 and their sum, (f 1 + f2), and their difference, (f 1 - f2). In practice, there are other component signals too - but we can ignore those. A filter - which can be any one of various sorts - selects the required output from the mixer. In this diagram, a simple parallel tuned circuit is shown. The output will normally be tuned to the SUM, (f 1 + f2), or tuned to the DIFFERENCE, (f 1 - f2), signa...

Amplitude modulators

Amplitude modulator can be classified as 1.Linear modulators a)collector modulator b)base modulator 2.square law modulators a)Square law diode modulator b)square law balanced modulator or simply balanced modulator 1. Linear modulators a) collector modulator collector modulator is a modulator in which the AF signal is applied at the collector of the BJT &RF signal is applied at the base .(high frequency BJT). b) base modulators In base modulator the RF & AF signal is applied at the base of the BJT . 2. square law modulators a) square law diode modulators In sauare law diode modulators the modulated current follows the square law I p =a 1 e s +a 2 e s 2 ........ e s =e m +e c where I p is the current through the diode e s the sum of the modulating and carrier voltages b) balanced modulator In balanced modulator the product of the input frequencies is produced along with other frequency components .Simply a balanced modulator is a combination of 2 mixers DIFFERENT MODULATION ...

Frequency domain & time domain representations

*TIME DOMAIN REPRESENTATION It is the representation with signal amplitude on the vertical axis and with time on the horizontal axis - (an oscilloscope diagram). This is sometimes referred to as the "time domain representation". *FREQUENCY DOMAIN REPRESENTATION Its the representation with signal amplitude on the vertical axis but with frequency on horizontal axis - a Spectrum Diagram. This is sometimes referred to as the "frequency domain".

Modulation

The technique to impress information (voice, music, picture, or data) on a radio-frequency carrier wave by varying one or more characteristics of the wave in accordance with the intelligence signal is called modulation. There are various forms of modulation, each designed to alter a particular characteristic of the carrier wave. For our study purposes, the most commonly altered characteristics are amplitude and frequency. There are mainly 3 modulation schemes 1.Amplitude modulation 1.Amplitude modulation block 2.frequency modulation 2.frequency modulation block 3.phase modulation

Bandwidth & Brainwidth

Measurement of the capacity of a communications signal. For digital signals, the bandwidth is the data speed or rate, measured in bits per second (bps). For analog signals, it is the difference between the highest and lowest frequency components, measured in hertz (cycles per second). for better results click here Brainwidth is analagous to bandwidth but used strictly for human capacity to process information and especially to multitask.