Performance Testing of PCM Bit Synchronizers

• Main Author: Waggener, William N.
• Other Authors: EMR-Telemetry
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1975
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609250; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/609250

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 14-16, 1975 / Sheraton Inn, Silver Spring, Maryland === Performance testing of modern PCM bit synchronizers requires special test equipment above and beyond that available in commercial laboratory instruments. As a result of this need, a standard product Telemetry Bit Error Rate Detector (TBERD) has been designed to fill the requirement for a special-purpose test instrument for use with PCM systems. After examining the primary performance characteristics of bit synchronizers, the TBERD unit was designed to measure both detection and synchronization performance for a wide range of bit rates and for all of the commonly used PCM codes.