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pulse-code modulation: a standalone construct

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Digital communications

representing an analog signal by sampling, quantizing and coding each sample as a binary number for transmission.

In digital communications, pulse-code modulation refers to representing an analog signal by sampling, quantizing and coding each sample as a binary number for transmission. This meaning comes from Oliver (1948) in Proceedings of the IRE.[1]

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References

Oliver, B. M., Pierce, J. R., & Shannon, C. E. (1948). The Philosophy of PCM. Proceedings of the IRE, 36(11), 1324-1331. https://doi.org/10.1109/jrproc.1948.231941

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