Monday 26 May 2014

3.25 describe how digital signals can carry more information

Quantisation

Quantisation is the process of rounding multiple values in a signal to a smaller set. This means more information can be packed into a smaller space.
With digital signals very little information is lost but with analogue a lot of information is lost.

The red line is the original signals and the black line is after it's been quantisised. As you can see a lot of information is lost when this occurs.
With digital signals more information can be packed in and less information is lost.

Multiplexing

Many digital signals can be sent down 1 wire with little interference. On the other hand analogue signals receive large amounts of interference so cannot be sent down the same wire. 

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for this! I've got my exam tomorrow and up you just saved my lazy ass!!

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