PCM Systems - Signaling
PCM Systems - Signaling
PCM Systems - Signaling
Incoming analog signals were time division multiplexed and digitized for transmission.
Each individual TDM channel are assigned 8 bits per time slot. Each frame is made of 24 × 8
bits = 192 bits plus one additional bit added to each frame to identity the fame boundaries.
Thus each frame contains 193 bits. The frame interval is 125 sec. Hence the basic T1 line rate
is 1.544 Mbps. This line rate has been established as the fundamental standard for digital
transmission.
30 channel PCM system. It is based on 30 speech channels transmitted within a frame
of 32 time slots (0 to 31). The total bit rate is 32 × 8 × 8 kbits/sec = 2048 kbps. Channel 0 is used
for providing the framing signal and channel 16 is used for transmitting the signalling
information relating to speech channels 1 to 15 and 17 to 31. Fig. 7.6 shows the 30 channel
PCM system
The 8 bits of channel 16 are shared between the 30 channels by a process of multiframing. 16
successive appearances of channel 16 form a multiframe of 8 bit time slots. Frame 0 contains a
multiframe alignment signal. Frame 1 to 16 of Fig. 7.6 (b) contains four bits of signalling
infomation for each of 2 channels. This arrangement enables a much larger number of signals
to be exchanged.