Republic of the Philippines

Batangas State University

College of Engineering, Architecture, Fine Arts and Computing Sciences
ECE/ICE/MEXE Department



Progress Report No. 3
RECEIVER
Digital Communication
ECE 456


Submitted to:
Engr. Ralph Gerard B. Sangalang
Instructor


Submitted by:
Hosme, Venus
Mendoza, Rowell R.
Miranda, Reynald
Umali, Kent Jerome R.


August 1, 2014

Narration of the Progress

The receiver group had a meeting about how the project will go on the process of
digital communication. Earlier, we debate regarding the signal that will be transmitted
through the air if it is analog or digital since the project copes the communication
wirelessly and digitally. But with in-depth research we found out that it is strictly
impossible to transmit digital signal because antennas only accept analog signals. With this
analog signals to comply digital communication, we discussed about what we learned
during studying Digital Signal Processing. Conversion of the analog signals into digital
signals comes up with the steps such as Sampling, Quantization, and Coding.
To further move with the project progressively, we decided to review these topics
and make some engineering skills to try converting some analog signals into digital signals.
These practices will help us to program the algorithm effectively.
The proposed block diagram is added hereunder.






Prepared by:
Mendoza, Rowell R.



Meeting No. 2
RECEIVER

Date and Time: July 31, 2014; 2:26-2:44 PM
Place: BSU Cafeteria
Moderator: Mendoza, Rowell R.
Attendees: Hosme, Venus M.
Umali, Kent Jerome R.
Miranda, Reynald


Agenda:

1. To discuss about how digital communication rules the project

2. To review the steps on how analog signals is converted to digital signals

3. To monitor the progress of the project










Facts


Information

Learning

Action
PIC Microcontroller
Based Programming
PIC16F877A is a
product of Microchip
which has a good
range of features and
allows most of the
essential techniques
to be explained.
If the group interfaced
this kind of this platform,
the members already
have the ideas on how to
work on it using the
assembly language.
MPLAB IDE
Internet

Arduino-Based
Design
Arduino is an open
source electronics
prototyping platform
thats taken the
design and hobbyist
world by storm.
If this platform will be
taken consideration, the
members should study
and understand first how
to program using the
language of an Arduino.
Arduino IDE
Internet

Phase Shift Keying
PSK is a form of
Bluetooth
modulation which
allows higher data
rates achievable by
Bluetooth
If this modulation scheme
will be the final choice,
the members should
study about its forms and
capabilities and how this
form of modulation will
make the construction of
the receiver at ease
PSK for
Bluetooth
Modulation
Sampling
By sampling we turn
a continuous-time
function which may
take on infinitely
many values at
different times into a
discretized function
that may take on
infinitely many
values at different
discrete indices.
To be able to
reconstruct the
signal we must
consider the
Sampling Theorem
which says that a
sampling frequency
twice the highest
frequency we're
expecting is needed.
These steps covers the
conversion of an analog
signals into digital
signals. The learners will
force again to restudy the
conversion and apply the
algorithm in the program.
DSP notes and
manuals

Internet

Quantization
The process of
taking a continuous
voltage signal and
mapping it to a
discrete number of
voltage levels. The
number of voltage
levels affects the
quantization noise
that occurs. Since
digital computers
are binary in nature,
the number of
quantization levels is
usually a power of 2,

where n is
the number of
quantization bits.
The signal may be
amplified or
attenuated before
going into the ADC,
so that the maximum
and minimum
voltage levels give
the best compromise
between resolution
of the signal levels
and minimization of
clipping.
Coding
The process of
converting the
quantized signals
into a digital
representation. This
coding is performed
by giving each
quantization level a
unique label.