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Communications DSP Terms

Modulation (QAM/PSK/OFDM/FSK), pulse shaping (RRC/Gaussian), Costas loop, NCO, equalization (LMS/DFE/MLSE), carrier recovery, timing recovery, MIMO basics.

9 terms in this category.

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B
  • Baseband Baseband refers to the original frequency range of a signal before it is modulated onto a carrier for transmission, or equivalently the freq...
  • BPSK
D
  • DTMF Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) is a telephone signaling scheme in which each keypad symbol is represented by the simultaneous transmission...
E
  • Eb/No Eb/N0 (energy per bit to noise spectral density ratio) is a normalized measure used in digital communications to characterize the power effi...
I
  • I/Q Signals I/Q signals refer to the in-phase (I) component and the quadrature (Q) component of a complex baseband signal: two representations of identi...
N
  • NCO A Numerically-Controlled Oscillator (NCO) is a digital signal generator that produces a sine, cosine, or other periodic waveform at a freque...
O
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multicarrier modulation scheme that splits a high-rate data stream across many narrow...
P
  • Phase-Locked Loop (DSP) A Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) is a feedback control system that drives a local oscillator to match the phase (and therefore frequency) of an inc...
Q