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A modulator modulates the carrier frequency, while a demodulator detects the modulation on the carrier wave and recovers the original lower frequency waveform at the destination. For many years the modulated carrier wave was converted to a radio signal. Now it is often an electrical signal which is sent down a teleohone line; the information is usually a set of pulses going between computers. When computers are connected to each other in a two-way conversation, the MOdulator and DEModulator are combined into a single device called a MODEM.

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Is there any special IC for amplitude modulation?

MC1496-AM modulator and demodulator chip -- shark


What is a demodulator?

The process of separating the original information or SIGNAL from the MODULATED CARRIER. In the case of AMPLITUDE or FREQUENCY MODULATION it involves a device, called a demodulator or detector, which produces a signal corresponding to the instantaneous changes in amplitude or frequency, respectively. This signal corresponds to the original modulating signal


What is amplitude demodulator?

(I am assuming you want to know what an "AM Demodulator" is, as follows) AM stands for Amplitude Modulation, perhaps the most basic kind of modulation of a radio carrier wave. Information, typically voice or music, is impressed on a radio carrier by simply varying the strength or 'amplitude' of the carrier (which is ordinarily at a much higher frequency than the information signal) versus time. An AM Demodulator, then, is a device which recovers the original signal, that is the voice or music, from the modulated carrier wave after it has been transmitted from the source to the receiver (which typically filters and amplifies the received signal before it is applied to the demodulator). The simplest AM Demodulator is a simple "diode", a 2 terminal semiconductor (or vacuum tube) device which, together with another filter, can convert the AM modulated carrier directly into the original form, discarding the carrier wave in the process. This is known as an "Envelope Detector". Other types of AM Demodulators exist, principally the "Product Detector". See the subtopic "AM Radio" in the Wikipedia entry for "Demodulation" for a little more information (it's not overly technical).


What is the more common abbreviation for a modulator-demodulator?

demodulator


What two words were combined to make up the modem?

modem (modulator + demodulator)


What does a modulator-demodulator stand for?

Modulator-Demodulator stands for modem


How demodulator works?

a demodulator sole function is to restore the original modulating signal. it works by removing the Carrier


What modem does?

Modulator/Demodulator


Am demodulator diode detector circuit?

demodulator circuit is a circuit which is used for remove all high frequency components from modulated signal.


What are the fetures of modem?

Modulator and Demodulator


What is the full meaning of the abbreviation modem?

Modem = modulator-demodulator, and is a tool for tweaking an analog signal so that it can be used in a digital device.


What is the full meaning of moderm?

modulator demodulator

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