CHP 1 Intro-Analog and Digital Signals
CHP 1 Intro-Analog and Digital Signals
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Signal
• A signal is a function that conveys some information.
- Video
Chrominance signal (Color)
Luminance signal (Brightness)
Sync signal
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Examples of Signal
- Audio/Speech
- Biomedical signals
An electrocardiogram (ECG) records the electrical signals in the
heart.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a recording of brain activity.
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Examples of Signal
- Seismology
Earthquake magnitude signal-measure the amplitude of the seismic waves
generated by an earthquake source and recorded by seismographs.
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Signal
• Two major categories
- Analog signal
- Digital signal
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Analog signal
Any representation of a
physical quantity that
• typically varies in value
over time,
• has a value at all instants
in time
• contains information.
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Sinusoidal Wave
• Analog signal is usually represented by
sinusoidal wave.
- Sinusoidal wave - term that refer to either a
sine wave or cosine wave
- The sine of any angle can vary from −1 to +1.
- For example the sine of 0° is 0 and the sine of
90° is 1.
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Sine Wave
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Big Ben
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0.866
0.5
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Analog Signal Properties
• Amplitude is the height of the wave
crest
• Phase involves the relationship between
the position of the amplitude crests and
troughs of two waveforms
troughs
0 volts
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Digital Signal Generation by Sampling an
Analog Signal
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d:digital-information/xcae6f4a7ff015e7d:representing-analog-data-in-binary/a/convert
ing-analog-data-to-binary
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Digital Signal Generation by Sampling an
Analog Signal
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Speech Digital Signal
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Need for signal processing
• When a signal is transmitted from one point to
another, there is possibility of contamination/
deformation of the signal by external noise.
• So to retrieve the original
signal, suitable processing need to be done.
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Types of processing
• Filtering
• Detection
• Recognition and classification
• Coding (Compression)
• Analyzing, modeling
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DSP Application Areas
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DSP Application Areas
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Summary
• An analog signal is continuous in both time and amplitude. Analog signals in the
real world include current, voltage, temperature, pressure, light intensity, and so
on.
• The digital signal contains the digital values converted from the analog signal at
the specified time instants.
• The digital signal can be converted back to an analog signal by sending the digital
values to DAC
• Digital signal processing finds many applications in areas such as digital speech
and audio, vibration signal analysis, communications, biomedical imaging,
image/video processing, and multimedia.
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