What happens when you increase the number of bits?

The more bits you use, the higher the resolution, or detail captured from the original signal.

What is the impact of increasing number of bits per sample on quantization noise?

The output SNR of the quantizer increases exponentially with increasing number of bits per sample, R.

How does changing the number of levels of quantization affect the digital code?

The conversion of a waveform into a set of digital signals starts with quantization of the wave to produce a set of numbers. The greater the number of quantization levels, the more precise the digital representation, but excessive quantization is wasteful in terms of the time required.

What is the effect of step size in quantization process?

The reason there is a fixed quantization step size is that amplitude is represented as a binary number within the A-D converter. The number of bits assigned to each amplitude value determines the quantization step size. The total number of levels that the quantized values can take is usually an integer power of 2.

How many possible numbers can you represent if you are given 5 bits?

Binary number representation

How many bits would you need if you wanted to count up to the decimal number 1000?

Number of Bits in a d-Digit Decimal Integer For example, consider four-digit decimal integers. Using the above formula you’ll see that the smallest four-digit number, 1000, requires 10 bits, and the largest four-digit number, 9999, requires 14 bits.

What are the disadvantages of PCM?

Following are the drawbacks or disadvantages of PCM: ➨Overload appears when modulating signal changes between samplings, by an amount greater than the size of the step. ➨Large bandwidth is required for transmission. ➨Noise and crosstalk leaves low but rises attenuation.

What will be effect on relative bandwidth requirements in PCM system if quantization levels are increased from 2 to 8?

So, as L increases from 2 to 8, n increases from 1 to 3. Hence Bandwidth becomes 3 times.

What is quantization error How can it be reduced?

Because these errors depend only on an ADCs resolution, sampling at a much higher rate than you would normally spreads the quantization noise over a larger bandwidth. And thus the power density for a fixed bandwidth decreases as fsample increases.

How effectiveness of quantization can be improved?

Oversampling reduces the quantization noise power contained within the input signal bandwidth. The equation above shows that for each doubling of the sampling rate relative to the input bandwidth, the theoretical limit on SNR can be increased by 3 dBs, an increase in effective resolution of 1 2 bit.

What is the difference between 1 bit quantization and 16 bit quantisation?

If you only have 1 bit to represent a sample of data, it would amount to only two levels of information, whereas 16 bits would give you finer details. And as User states, 1 bit quantisation is not only about taking the instantaneous sign of the signal (although that is what 1 bit can really do).

What is quantization error and how to reduce it?

Quantization error also introduces noise, called quantization noise, to the sample signal. The higher the resolution of the A/D converter, the lower the quantization error and the smaller the quantization noise.

What does quantization mean in image processing?

When you are quantizing an image, you are actually dividing a signal into quanta (partitions). On the x axis of the signal, are the co-ordinate values, and on the y axis, we have amplitudes. So digitizing the amplitudes is known as Quantization. You can see in this image, that the signal has been quantified into three different levels.

What is the difference between quantization and sampling?

Quantization is opposite to sampling. It is done on y axis. When you are quantizing an image, you are actually dividing a signal into quanta(partitions). On the x axis of the signal, are the co-ordinate values, and on the y axis, we have amplitudes. So digitizing the amplitudes is known as Quantization.