Mobile Communication Lab

Lab 05

To Perform Signal Companding in Simulink

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 Companding a Signal
• In certain applications, such as speech processing, it is
common to use a logarithm computation, called a
compressor, before quantizing.

• The inverse operation of a compressor is called an

expander.

• The combination of a compressor and expander is called a

compander.

• Communication blockset supports two kinds of

companders: µ-law and A-law companders

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 Example 5a
• Quantizes an exponential signal in two ways
1) Computation using the Sampled Quantizer Encode block
with a partition consisting of length-one intervals.
2) Using the Mu-Law Compressor block.
and compare the resulting mean square distortions.

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 Creating the Signal in Workspace
• To create the signal in the MATLAB workspace,
execute these commands:

>> sig= -4:.1:4;

>> sig= exp(sig'); % Exponential signal to quantize

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 Building the Model
• To start building the model, follow these steps:

• Type commlib at the MATLAB prompt.

This opens the Communications Blockset main library.

• Type dsplib at the MATLAB prompt.

This opens the DSP Blockset main library.

• Type simulink3 at the MATLAB prompt.

This opens the Main Simulink Library.

• From the library's File menu, select New and then select Model.
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• Signal From Workspace

Set Signal to sig

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• Quantizing Encoder
- Set Quantization partition to 0:floor(max(sig))
- Set Quantization codebook to 0:ceil(max(sig))

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• Mu-Law Compressor
- Set Peak signal magnitude to max(sig)

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• Mu-Law Expander
• - Set Peak signal magnitude to ceil(max(sig))

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• Terminator
• To Workspace (2 copies)
• Scope

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• Two copies of To Workspace, in the Simulink
Sinks library
- Set Variable names to
nocompander and withcompander

- Set Save format to Array in each of the two

copies of this block.

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• Mux
• Demux

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 Running Simulation
• Connect the blocks as shown
• Set Stop time to 80

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 Analyzing the Results
• Run the model, then execute these commands:

• This output shows that the distortion is smaller for the second
scheme.

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 Lab Task 5a
• Quantizes an exponential signal in two ways
1) Using the Mu-Law Compressor block.
2) Using A-Law Compressor block.
and compare the resulting mean square
distortions
• Determine which technique has low distortion

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