Demodulation is the process by which the original information bearing signal, i. Most radio systems in the 20th century used frequency modulation fm or amplitude modulation am for radio broadcast. The goal of this experiment is to become familiar with fm modulation and demodulation. There are different types of modulation and so are demodulators. Remember to set up the vco module in 100 khz vco mode. When there is no carrier modulation and the input fm signal is in the center of the pass band i. Frequency modulation objectives upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to.
Restoring or recovering the message signal from the received modulated waveform that is generally corrupted by noise types of am detectors. Measuring deviation is a complex business, and in the late 1980s when optimodsother processors were sadly arriving on fm at the bbc, various tests were undertaken on their performances. Message signal may be recovered from the envelope only if dsb signal is a narrowband signal w of frequency modulated signal since frequency modulation is a nonlinear process, an exact description of the spectrum of an frequencymodulated signal for an arbitrary message signal is more complicated than linear process. Frequency modulation 1 objective to understand the principles of frequency modulation and demodulation. To understand the theoretical foundations for angle modulation as well as frequency modulation fm and demodulation. In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. This senior project paper reports on the design and implementation of an fm receiver front end and of a digital phase lock loop design to demodulate fm broadcast signals. Demodulation is defined as extracting the original informationcarrying signal from a modulated carrier wave. For am, simply taking the absolute value of the complex signal detects the envelope, and gives you the audio waveform. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the different analog modulation techniques. Demodulates the fm waveform by modulating the hilbert transform of y by a complex exponential of frequency fc hz and obtains the instantaneous frequency of the result. Fm signals can be generated using either direct or indirect frequency modulation. Ofdm is a special case of frequency division multiplex fdm.
For our convenience, assume the phase angle of the carrier signal is zero. Matlab simulation of frequency modulation and demodulation. There are clearly many sides to this question which is sort of incomplete. To implement the simulink models for fm including a basic sinusoid and a multimedia file music to analyze each signal in time and frequency domains using time scope and spectrum analyzer. Let the modulating signal of a singletone fm signal be mft am cos 2. If the baseband signal is bandlimited, then there is a. Describe fm demodulation circuit operation for the phaseshift and gatedbeam discriminators and the ratiodetector demodulator. Among the types of modulation techniques, the main classification is continuouswave modulation and pulse modulation. First off, i know very very little about signal processing, but i have verified that this function gives the same answers as the matlab function. Hapter modulation and demodulation mit opencourseware.
Demodulation for communications simulation matlab demod. Most radio systems in the 20th century used frequency modulation fm or amplitude modulation am for radio broadcast a modulator is a device that performs modulation. Here is another matlab simulation of frequency modulation and demodulation of an fm transmitted signal. For am, simply taking the absolute value of the complex signal detects the envelope, and gives you. Phase des carrier andert in ubereinstimmung mit dem modulationssignal phasenmoduliertes signal. In that way, users can use changes of frequency to carry speech information. Direct fm modulation can be achieved by directly feeding the message into the input of a voltagecontrolled oscillator. Fm demodulation using a digital radio and digital signal processing by james michael shima may 1995 chairman. Disadvantage of fft filters all the data manipulation is processor intensive and delays are an issue. The continuous wave modulation techniques are further divided into amplitude modulation and angle modulation. Is a nonlinear function of the modulating signal mt, which makes frequency modulation a nonlinear modulation process. For bandlimited signal a k are nonzero only for small range of k i. Electrical engineering frequency modulation fm and demodulation techniques are well established and understood when implemented with analog circuits. Simple slope detector or single tuned discriminator ii.
Signal manipulation based on frequency removing bin 210 212 performing an ifft inverse fast fourier transform and sending the data stream to a dac will recreate the analog signal without the carrier. Modulation involved mixing, or multiplying, the input signal xn with a carrier signal cos. Any baseband signal can be broken up into a weighted sum of sinusoids using fourier decomposition chapter. We assume a harmonic modulation signal at the frequency f m.
Fm demodulation is a key process in the reception of a frequency modulated signal. The classic definition of fm is that the instantaneous output frequency of a transmitter is varied in accordance with the modulating signal. As an analogy, a fdm channel is like water flow out of a faucet, in contrast the ofdm signal is. Its amplitude a, which leads us to the class of systems designated as amplitude. Abstract analog modulations are more and more replaced by digital ones.
This information recovery process is known as demodulation or detection. Frequency modulation frequency modulation is the process by which frequency of the carrier signal ct changes with respect to the modulating signal mt. Signal modulation type iq demods are able to identify what modulation type is used in the. Ive been looking at making an fm demodulator for a software defined radio. The term and technology is used in both telecommunications and signal processing in analog frequency modulation, such as fm radio broadcasting of an audio signal representing voice or music, the instantaneous frequency deviation, the difference between the. Fm modulation and demodulation electrical and computer. For a baseband signal, xt k f is the frequency deviation constant in hzvolt. Modulation fm, amplitude shift keying ask, phase shift keying psk, etc. A second question is could anyone explain how to use the hilbert transform to demodulate an fm signal. If you do not specify the opt parameter, modulate uses a default of opt pimaxmaxx so the maximum phase excursion is. Signal modulation worksheet discrete semiconductor devices.
Demodulation is a key process in the reception of any amplitude modulated signals whether used for broadcast or two way radio communication systems. In principle at least this is trivial if you have a complex signal i and q, as you can compute the phase atanqi, then the modulation amplitude is just the derivative of phase with time. I hear that it is possible but i am unsure how to use the hilbert transform to demodulate an fm signal. Measure the maximum frequency and minimum frequency by using cursors do not use quick measure. When input noise power is quite large we would be inclined to use fm and allows a sacrifice of bandwidth for the sake of improved output signaltonoise ratio. Frequency modulation the fm signal st defined by equation 2. In ofdm the signal itself is first split into independent channels, modulated by data and then remultiplexed to create the ofdm carrier. Overmodulation vs over deviation on fm digital spy. Sep 20, 2012 frequency modulation frequency modulation is the process by which frequency of the carrier signal ct changes with respect to the modulating signal mt. A demodulator is an electronic circuit that is mainly used to recover the information content from the modulated carrier wave. Signal modulation worksheet discrete semiconductor. To keep the compatibility the new device should be able to perform the analog modulation. The analytical signal for an analog frequency modulated fm signal is.
When a modulated signal arrives at the receiving antenna, the embedded information must somehow be extracted by the receiver and separated from the hf carrier signal. Implementation of fm demodulator algorithms on a high. Discuss the requirements for recovery of intelligence from an am signal and describe the theory of operation of the following am demodulators. Use the spectrum analyzer to observe the frequency spectrum of the fm. Frequency modulation fm is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave. A continuouswave goes on continuously without any intervals and it is the baseband message signal, which contains the information. However if st is sinusoidal, then the instantaneous frequency deviation of the anglemodulated signal is.
Frequency modulation fm is a process in which the carrier frequency is varied by the amplitude of the modulating signal i. Demodulation of fm signal fm demodulator extracts message signal in two steps frequency discriminators it converts the fm signal into am signal with the help of frequency dependent circuits the am signal is demodulated into message signal using envelope detector types of fm detectors 1. Discuss the differences between am and angle modulation. A voltagecontrolled oscillator is used for fm modulation found at matlab category. If you want a starting point, the equivalent function in matlab is fmdemod if you have the communications toolbox. Thus, a narrowband fm signal requires essentially the same transmission band width. Consequently, unlike amplitude modulation, the spectrum of an fm signal is. Calculation of modulation index in fm signal babur 011919 i think by mistake anwer given is wrong, actual freq deviatiion is 50 khz mod index freq deviaition mod freq freq deviation is 50 khz, mod freq is 10 khz mod index 50 khz 10 khz mod index. It is the process of deriving the original modulation signal from a modulated carrier wave. For indirect fm modulation, the message signal is integrated to generate a phasemodulated signal. Fm modulated signal st is a nonlinear function of the modulating signal mt, thus it is known as nonlinear modulation process. I assume that a digital pll implementation would be required or would the method in the frerking book work if there is a frequency offset. Determine the permissible range in maximum modulation index for i commercial fm which has 30hz to 15hz mod frequencies ii narrow band fm system which allows maximum deviation of 10 khz and 100 hz to 3 khz modulating frequencies.
It is a detection technique of a received modulated signal. Make sure the signal goes through at least four periods in the captured signal. Fm tends to be a far more noiseresistant means of signal modulation than am. Measurement queue user puts different measurements into a queue. Single and scanner mode measurements can be combined. When you overmodulate a signal you stand a very good chance of clipping the signals, for a variety of reasons, causing a gr. Problem was we had three modulation monitors available, and all three gave totally and i mean hugely different answers when we dug them out and connected.
Finds the pulse widths of a pulsewidth modulated signal y. When deviation in carrier frequency occurs that means modulation occurs the vco frequency follows the input signal in. A noncoherent detector has only one input, namely, the modulated signal port. One can take this sum and modulate it on a carrier signal of some other frequency in a simple. If this input signal is added to the pure carrier wave, it will thereby change the frequency of the carrier wave. Calculate modulation index, signal bandwidth, sideband frequencies and. These two strategies can be combined to create a third scheme. Fm demodulation is also called fm detection and sometimes the phrase fm discrimination is used, although this term tends to be used with older circuits and technology.
Jan 18, 2012 when a modulated signal arrives at the receiving antenna, the embedded information must somehow be extracted by the receiver and separated from the hf carrier signal. For instance, the crackling form of radio interference caused by natural lightning or the buzzing noise produced by highvoltage power lines are both easy to hear on an am radio, but absent on an fm radio. Dutton ee3 winter 2004 3 3 fm demodulation using the pll now that youve seen how the pll tracks a signal, we will explore one of its applications, fm demodulation. Calculation of modulation index in fm signal babur 011919 i think by mistake anwer given is wrong, actual freq deviatiion is 50 khz mod index freq deviaition mod freq freq deviation is 50 khz, mod freq is 10 khz mod index 50 khz 10 khz mod index 5 in my last post i mentioned khz which is wrong. Last week you learned to find am signals, and then demodulate and decimate them down to a baseband signal you could listen to. In this experiment, we will use a famous chip, the lm 566c to generate the fm signal. Recall that we can write an equation for a sine wave as follows. The phase of the carrier fm varies with the integral of the modulating signal. Am fm streaming am fm signal source can be streamed into the application, demodulated, and saved or directly listened to in a. You cant easily cook up firiir filters, for instance. Once the signal has been received, filtered and amplified, it is necessary to recover the. Represent a frequency modulated passband signal, yt, as y t a cos 2. Berrou c, glavieux a, thitimajshima p 2010 near shannon limit errorcorrecting pdf. In fm modulation when the bandwidth becomes so large that the input noise power is relatively large, the performance of the fm system degrades rapidly and the system exhibits a threshold.
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