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Can anyone tell me how sample time, sample rate, and symbol period are related?

thanx

srikoll wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how sample time, sample rate, and symbol period are related?
>
> thanx

Partial answer:

Fs = 1 / Ts

where

Fs = sample rate (Hz)
Ts = sample period (s)

Good luck,
OUP

[email protected] (srikoll) wrote in message news:<[email protected] com>...
> Can anyone tell me how sample time, sample rate, and symbol period are related?

First, "sample time" could be the time between samples or the total time of
a group of samples.

Sample rate is the reciprocal of the time between samples.

Symbol period is another matter - somewhat removed. Symbol period is the
time between symbols that are communicated in a channel. A symbol might be
a single bit or it might be a few bits - depending on the modulation scheme.
A source symbol might be encoded into multiple channel symbols with a
correlation type of detection process at the receiver.

Fred

"One Usenet Poster" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> Fs = 1 / Ts
>
> where
>
> Fs = sample rate (Hz)
> Ts = sample period (s)

Additionally, we denote
Fs --> sampling rate (Hz) and Ts = 1/Fs --> sampling time (s).
This sampling time (Ts) can be smaller than the symbol period (T = Ts/P), in
which
case we call P times oversampling .

> Good luck,
> OUP

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