Difference between PAM, PWM and PPM of the Analog Modulation | Soukacatv.com

In a communication system, the modulation is an important step. Modulation is the process of transmitting a message signal (Baseband signal with low frequency) from transmitter to receiver without changing its characteristics (like amplitude, frequency, phase) by using a carrier signal (high frequency) which varies in accordance with the instantaneous values of the low frequency wave by keeping its frequency and phase constant.

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The modulation techniques are classified into two major types: analog and digital or pulse modulation. We have discussed previously the different types of modulation techniques, let us understand the basic difference between PAM, PWM, and PPM.

Types of Modulation Techniques

Before going to discuss the difference between PAM, PWM, and PPM, let us discuss individually each. All these are pulse analog modulation techniques.

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Pulse Amplitude Modulation

By varying the amplitude of the pulses (the carrier signal) in proportion to the instantaneous values of the analog signal (the message signal).

Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) Signals

The above figure illustrates the time domain representation of the PAM technique which mentions analog message and PAM modulated signal as an output.

Pulse amplitude modulation is used in the popular Ethernet communication standard. The PAM modulator and demodulator circuits simple compared to other kinds of modulation and demodulation techniques.

There are two categories of PAM techniques, one is the pulses have the same polarity and the other in which the pulses can have both positive and negative polarities according to the amplitude of the modulating signal.

Pulse Width Modulation

The Pulse width Modulation– By varying the width of the pulses (the carrier signal) in proportion to the instantaneous values of the analog signal (the message signal).

The width of the pulse varies, but the amplitude of the pulse remains constant. Amplitude limiters are used to make the amplitude constant. These circuits clip-off the amplitude, to a preferred level and hence the noise is limited.

There are three types of PWM. They are

·         The leading edge of the pulse being constant, the trailing edge varies according to the message signal.

·         The trailing edge of the pulse being constant, the leading edge varies according to the message signal.

·         The center of the pulse being constant, the leading edge and the trailing edge varies according to the message signal.

Pulse Position Modulation

By varying the position of the pulses (the carrier signal) in proportion to the instantaneous values of the analog signal (the message signal).

Pulse position modulation is done in accordance with the pulse width modulated signal. Each trailing of the pulse width modulated signal becomes the starting point for pulses in PPM signal.

Hence, the position of these pulses is proportional to the width of the PWM pulses. But the main disadvantage of the PPM modulation technique is, The synchronization between transmitter and receiver must be needed.

Difference between PAM, PWM, and PPM

In all the above cases, we detect the message of the pulse modulated signal and reconstruct the original analog signal.

Difference between PAM, PWM, and PPM of the Analog Modulation

The below table gives the detailed difference between PWM, PAM, and PPM.

Sr. No.	Parameter	PAM	PWM	PPM
1	Type of Carrier	Train of Pulses	Train of Pulses	Train of Pulses
2	Variable Characteristic of the Pulsed Carrier	Amplitude	Width	Position
3	Bandwidth Requirement	Low	High	High
4	Noise Immunity	Low	High	High
5	Information Contained in	Amplitude Variations	Width Variations	Position Variations
6	Power efficiency (SNR)	Low	Moderate	High
7	Transmitted Power	Varies with amplitude of pulses	Varies with variation in width	Remains Constant
8	Need to transmit synchronizing pulses	Not needed	Not needed	Necessary
9	Bandwidth depends on	Bandwidth depends on the width of the pulse	Bandwidth depends on the rise time of the pulse	Bandwidth depends on the rise time of the pulse
10	Transmitter power	Instantaneous transmitter power varies with the amplitude of the pulses	Instantaneous transmitter power varies with the amplitude and width of the pulses	Instantaneous transmitter power remains constant with the width of the pulses
11	Complexity of generation and detection	Complex	Easy	Complex
12	Similarity with other Modulation Systems	Similar to AM	Similar to FM	Similar to PM

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