time-division multiplexing

electronics
Also known as: TDM

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major reference

  • Block diagram of a digital telecommunications system.
    In telecommunication: Time-division multiplexing

    Multiplexing also may be conducted through the interleaving of time segments from different signals onto a single transmission path—a process known as time-division multiplexing (TDM). Time-division multiplexing of multiple signals is possible only when the available data rate of the channel exceeds the…

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multiplexing

  • In multiplexing

    In time-division multiplexing, different time intervals are employed for different signals. Two or more different signals may be transmitted in time sequence: the instantaneous amplitude of each signal is sampled and transmitted in sequence. When all signals have been sampled, the process is repeated. The sampling…

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telegraph systems

  • White House Telegraph Room, 1898
    In telegraph: Printing telegraphs

    …ideas of Baudot, devised a time-division multiplex system for the British Post Office. The transmitter used a typewriter keyboard that punched tape, and the receiver printed text. He modified the Baudot Code by assigning code combinations with the fewest punched holes to the most frequently encountered letters and symbols. Murray…

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telemetry

  • In telemetry: Multiplexing and sampling.

    In time division, channels are combined one after another in time sequence; in frequency division, each channel is assigned on an individually allocated, discrete frequency band, and these bands are then combined for simultaneous transmission. Finally, data may be handled within the telemetry system in a…

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telephone systems

  • Alexander Graham Bell and the New York City–Chicago telephone link
    In telephone: From analog to digital transmission

    …are then multiplexed together using time-division multiplexing (TDM), a method in which each digitized telephone signal is assigned a specific slot within a fixed time frame. In order to provide standard interfaces between transmission and switching equipment, multiplexed signals are further combined or aggregated in hierarchical arrangements.

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