Analog Components, Multiplexed Components, and Digital Components — Friends or Foes?

John L. E. Baldwin

This article discusses the use of analog, digital, and time-multiplexed components in various applications. For microwave links and satellite broadcasting, where there is one signal path, it is necessary to time-multiplex the three signals together to provide one signal, referred to as multiplexed analog components (MAC). Such a signal would be compatible in principle with most studio equipment. If this compatibility is proved in practice, it would permit an orderly changeover from an analog composite to a digital component environment.

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1983-12
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J04216