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Quantization noise of signal correlators.

In radio-astronomy, spectra of noisy signals are often computed using digital auto-correlation techniques. To simplify the design of the many high-speed multipliers and averagers, coarse quantization is employed, using only a few digital levels.
This thesis is a theoretical study of the penalty paid for such coarse quantization in the form of increased output noise. A degradation factor is defined and is calculated for a variety of logic schemes which have been used or proposed.
For each scheme, results are given as a function of sampling rate and it is demonstrated that there is often significant improvement in sampling at rates faster than the Nyquist rate.
A computer simulation technique was developed for verifying the computed results, and for extending the results to complicated schemes where analysis is very difficult. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of / Graduate

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/33494
Date January 1972
CreatorsKlingler, Rolf Jerg
PublisherUniversity of British Columbia
Source SetsUniversity of British Columbia
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, Thesis/Dissertation
RightsFor non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.

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