HW8

Problem Statement

Write a section describing how a CD player works with out oversampling but with digital filtering (1x oversampling)

Solution

CD players are used to play audio files and although these are limited we can look at any non periodic signal as periodic with an infinite period. We can represent this signal, x(t) as such in the time domain and X(f) in the frequency domain.

In order to take the signal and read it digitally we must sample it. This gives us data points creating a discrete function of time $x(nT)\!$, where $n\!$ is and integer and $T\!$ is the period between samples. We use a frequency of 44 kHz as it is twice the frequency at which a human can hear (i.e. 2 x 22 kHz) -- that means, $\scriptstyle f_{s}=44$ kHz. Mathematically sampling is represented by multiplying x(t) with the delta function which results in a convolution with X(f).

Represented as: $x(t)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }x(nT)\delta (t-nT_{0})$ and $X(f)={\frac {1}{T}}\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }X(f-{\frac {n}{T}})$ respectively.

This type of sampling can result in aliasing. This is prevented by oversampling represented on CD players and other media devices as Nx for N times oversampling. It is commonly seen at 8 or 16 and my latest player had it at 52. For this particular assignment we were asked to look at digital filtering but we can accommodate for any oversampling with the variable 'p'. We will use a FIR filter for this.