Advantages and Disadvantages of PAM PWM PPM
This page covers advantages and disadvantages of PAM, PWM and PPM. It mentions PAM advantages, PAM disadvantages, PWM advantages, PWM disadvantages, PPM advantages and PPM disadvantages. PAM stands for Pulse Amplitude Modulation, PWM stands for Pulse Width Modulation and PPM stands for Pulse Position Modulation.
What is PAM?
Introduction:
As mentioned PAM is short form of Pulse Amplitude Modulation in which
amplitude of pulse is proportional to amplitude of the modulating signal.
It is similar to amplitude modulation (AM).
Benefits or advantages of PAM
Following are the benefits or advantages of PAM:
➨In PAM, amplitudes of regularly spaced pulses are varied
in proportion to corresponding sample values of continuous message signal.
Hence system is lowest in complexity to implement.
Hence generation and detection is easy.
Drawbacks or disadvantages of PAM
Following are the disadvantages of PAM:
➨Noise interference is higher.
➨It is difficult to remove noise, as this will affect amplitude
part which carries information.
➨It has lowest power efficiency among all three types.
➨Instantaneous power of transmitter varies.
➨Transmission bandwidth is too large.
What is PWM?
Introduction:
As mentioned PWM is short form of Pulse Width Modulation in which
width of pulse is proportional to amplitude of the modulating signal.
It is similar to frequency modulation (FM).
Benefits or advantages of PWM
Following are the benefits or advantages of PWM:
➨Noise interference is less or minimum.
➨System is moderate in complexity to implement.
➨It has moderate power efficiency among all three types.
➨It supports higher power handling capability.
Drawbacks or disadvantages of PWM
Following are the disadvantages of PWM:
➨Instantaneous power of transmitter varies.
➨The system requires semiconductor devices with low turn-ON and turn-OFF times.
Hence they are very expensive.
➨High switching losses due to higher PWM frequency.
What is PPM?
Introduction:
As mentioned PPM is short form of Pulse Position Modulation in which
relative position of pulse is proportional to amplitude of the modulating signal.
It is similar to phase modulation (PM).
Benefits or advantages of PPM
Following are the benefits or advantages of PPM:
➨Noise interference is less or minimum due to constant amplitude.
➨It is easy to separate out signal from noisy signal.
➨It has highest power efficiency among all three types.
➨Instantaneous power of PPM modulated signal remains constant due to
constant pulse widths and pulse amplitudes.
➨It requires less power compare to PAM due to short duration pulses.
Drawbacks or disadvantages of PPM
Following are the disadvantages of PPM:
➨System is highest in complexity to implement.
➨It requires very large bandwidth (BW) compare to PAM.
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