Lab 7
Lab 7
Theory
Intersymbol interference refers to the phenomenon in communication systems
where closely spaced transitions interfere with each other, resulting in a linear
combination of overlapping transition responses. This interference causes the
magnitude of crowded peaks to be smaller and their positions to shift away from
the center of the transition.
To proceed with the study of intersymbol interference, consider a baseband bi-
nary PAM system. The term baseband refers to an information-bearing signal
whose spectrum extends from (or near)zero up to some finite value for posi-
tive frequencies. Thus, with the input data stream being a baseband signal, the
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data-transmission system is said to be a baseband system. Consequently,there
is no carrier modulation in the transmitter and, therefore, no carrier demodula-
tion in the receiver to be considered.This residual effect due to the occurrence
of pulses before and after the sampling instant is called intersymbol interference
(ISI) [1].
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1 S. Haykin, Communication Systems, 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2001.