TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

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Information on Time division multiplexing (TDM)

Time division multiplexing (TDM) is a technique that shares a transmission channel between users by dividing transmission time by allotting to each device a time slot during which it can send or receive data. Time division multiplexing involves interleaving in time the narrow pulses of pulse-code modulation (PCM) or delta modulation (DM) to form one composite digital signal for transmission. De-multiplexing of the time-multiplexed pulse streams at the receiver is accomplished by gating appropriate pulses into individual channel filters.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to Time division multiplexing include: 
 
  • Multiplexing
  • frequency division multiplexing (FDM)
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  • wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)
  • Inverse multiplexer
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  • Demultiplexer
  • Statistical time division multiplexing (STDM)

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