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AM and FM Receiver

The document describes the functioning and requirements of AM and FM receivers, highlighting their demodulation processes and key components. AM receivers utilize an envelope detector and include sections like RF tuner, mixer, IF filter, and audio amplifier, while FM receivers incorporate amplitude limiters and de-emphasis networks. Both types of receivers aim to effectively select, amplify, and demodulate the desired signals while rejecting unwanted frequencies.

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AM and FM Receiver

The document describes the functioning and requirements of AM and FM receivers, highlighting their demodulation processes and key components. AM receivers utilize an envelope detector and include sections like RF tuner, mixer, IF filter, and audio amplifier, while FM receivers incorporate amplitude limiters and de-emphasis networks. Both types of receivers aim to effectively select, amplify, and demodulate the desired signals while rejecting unwanted frequencies.

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Receiver

AM receiver receives AM wave and demodulates it by using the envelope detector.


Similarly, FM receiver receives FM wave and demodulates it by using the
Frequency Discrimination method.
Following are the requirements of both AM and FM receiver.
• It should be cost-effective.
• It should receive the corresponding modulated waves.
• The receiver should be able to tune and amplify the desired station.
• It should have an ability to reject the unwanted stations.
• Demodulation has to be done to all the station signals, irrespective of the carrier
signal frequency.
AM Receiver
• The AM super heterodyne receiver takes the amplitude modulated wave as an input and
produces the original audio signal as an output.
• Selectivity is the ability of selecting a particular signal, while rejecting the others.
• Sensitivity is the capacity of detecting RF signal and demodulating it, while at the lowest
power level.
• The block diagram of AM receiver is shown in the following figure.
AM Receiver
RF Tuner Section
The amplitude modulated wave received by the antenna is first passed to the
tuner circuit through a transformer. The tuner circuit is nothing but a LC
circuit, which is also called as resonant or tank circuit. It selects the
frequency, desired by the AM receiver. It also tunes the local oscillator and the
RF filter at the same time.
RF Mixer
The signal from the tuner output is sent to the RF-IF converter, which acts as a
mixer. It has a local oscillator, which produces a constant frequency. The
mixing process is done here, having the received signal as one input and the
local oscillator frequency as the other input. The resultant output is a mixture of
two frequencies [(f1+f2),(f1-f2)]produced by the mixer, which is called as the
Intermediate Frequency (IF).
AM Receiver

IF Filter
Intermediate frequency filter is a band pass filter, which passes the desired frequency. It
eliminates all other unwanted frequency components present in it. This is the advantage of
IF filter, which allows only IF frequency.
AM Demodulator
The received AM wave is now demodulated using AM demodulator. This demodulator uses
the envelope detection process to receive the modulating signal.
Audio Amplifier
This is the power amplifier stage, which is used to amplify the detected audio signal. The
processed signal is strengthened to be effective. This signal is passed on to the loudspeaker
to get the original sound signal.
FM Receiver
• The block diagram of FM receiver is shown in the following figure
This block diagram of FM receiver is similar to the block diagram of AM
receiver. The two blocks Amplitude limiter and De-emphasis network are
included before and after FM demodulator. The operation of the remaining
blocks is the same as that of AM receiver.

If some noise is added with FM wave in the channel, due to that the
amplitude of FM wave may vary. Thus, with the help of amplitude limiter
we can maintain the amplitude of FM wave as constant by removing the
unwanted peaks of the noise signal.

In FM transmitter, we have seen the pre-emphasis network (High pass


filter), which is present before FM modulator. This is used to improve the
SNR of high frequency audio signal. The reverse process of pre-emphasis is
known as de-emphasis. Thus, in this FM receiver, the de-emphasis network
(Low pass filter) is included after FM demodulator. This signal is passed to
the audio amplifier to increase the power level. Finally, we get the original
sound signal from the loudspeaker.

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