Wireless Technology Terms, Glossary and Dictionary

PCM: Pulse Code Modulation

Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) is the most predominant type of digital modulation in use today. PCM performs an analog to digital conversion of the speech waveform through a sampling process and encodes and transmits the samples in a serial bit stream as 8-bit digital words.

 


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PCM: Pulse Code Modulation