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Brigham Young University

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2005

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A Pam Decomposition Of Weak Cpm, Mason B. Wardle Jun 2005

A Pam Decomposition Of Weak Cpm, Mason B. Wardle

Theses and Dissertations

The Enhanced Flight Termination System uses weak CPM as its modulation scheme and a limiter-discriminator as its demodulation scheme. A PAM representation of weak CPM was developed which representation provided the necessary componenents to build a simplified PAM-based receiver that outperformed the EFTS limiter-discriminator, even in the presence of phase noise. The PAM representation also provided a new perspective into the negative characteristics of weak CPM.