Time division multiplexing ( TDM ) is a type of digital multiplexing (or rarely analog ) in which two or more bit streams

or signals are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but are physically taking turns on the channel. The time domain is divided into several recurrent time slots of fixed length, one for each subchannel. A sample byte or data block of sub-channel 1 is transmitted during time slot 1, sub-channel 2 during time slot 2, etc. One TDM frame consists of one time slot per sub-channel plus a synchronization channel and sometimes error correction channel before the synchronization. After the last sub-channel, error correction, and synchronization, the cycle starts all over again with a new frame, starting with the second sample, byte or data block from sub-channel 1, etc.

Application

The RIFF (WAV) audio standard interleaves left and right stereo signals on a per-sample basis

TDM can be further extended into the time division multiple access(TDMA) scheme, where several stations connected to the same physical medium, for example sharing the same frequency channel, can communicate. Application examples include:

The GSM telephone system

Transmission using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) In circuit switched networks such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN) there exists the need to transmit multiple subscribers calls along the same transmission

medium.[3]To accomplish this, network designers make use of TDM. TDM allows switches to create channels, also known as tributaries, within a transmission stream.[3] A standard DS0 voice signal has a data bit rate of 64 kbit/s, determined using Nyquists sampling criterion.[3][4] TDM takes frames of the voice signals and multiplexes them into a TDM frame which runs at a higher bandwidth. So if the TDM frame consists of n voice frames, the bandwidth will be n*64 kbit/s.[3] Each voice sample time slot in the TDM frame is called a channel .[3] In European systems, TDM frames contain 30 digital voice channels, and in American systems, they contain 24 channels.[3] Both standards also contain extra bits (or bit time slots) for signaling and synchronization bits.[3] Multiplexing more than 24 or 30 digital voice channels is called higher order multiplexing.[3] Higher order multiplexing is accomplished by multiplexing the standard TDM frames.[3] For example, a European 120 channel TDM frame is formed by multiplexing four standard 30 channel TDM frames.[3] At each higher order multiplex, four TDM frames from the immediate lower order are combined, creating multiplexes with a bandwidth of n x 64 kbit/s, where n = 120, 480, 1920, etc.[3]

Time-division multiplexing (TDM) Time-division multiplexing (TDM) is a method of putting multiple data streams in a single signal by separating the signal into many segments, each having a very short duration. Each individual data stream is reassembled at the receiving end based on the timing. The circuit that combines signals at the source (transmitting) end of a communications link is known as a multiplexer. It accepts the input from each individual end user, breaks each signal into segments, and assigns the segments to the composite signal in a rotating, repeating sequence. The composite signal thus contains data from multiple senders. At the other end of the longdistance cable, the individual signals are separated out by means of a circuit called a demultiplexer, and routed to the proper end users. A

two-way communications circuit requires a multiplexer/demultiplexer at each end of the long-distance, high-bandwidth cable. If many signals must be sent along a single long-distance line, careful engineering is required to ensure that the system will perform properly. An asset of TDM is its flexibility. The scheme allows for variation in the number of signals being sent along the line, and constantly adjusts the time intervals to make optimum use of the available bandwidth. The Internet is a classic example of a communications network in which the volume of traffic can change drastically from hour to hour. In some systems, a different scheme, known as frequency-division multiplexing (FDM), is preferred.

TDM Short for Time Division Multiplexing, a type of multiplexing that combines data streams by assigning each stream a different time slot in a set. TDM repeatedly transmits a fixed sequence of time slots over a single transmission channel. Within T-Carrier systems, such as T-1 and T-3, TDM combines Pulse Code Modulated (PCM) streams created for each conversation or data stream. time division multiplexing - (TDM) A type of multiplexing where two or more channels of information are transmitted over the same link by allocating a different time interval ("slot" or "slice") for the transmission of each channel. I.e. the channels take turns to use the link. Some kind of periodic synchronising signal or distinguishing identifier is usually required so that the receiver can tell which channel is which. TDM becomes inefficient when traffic is intermittent because the

time slot is still allocated even when the channel has no data to transmit. Statistical time division multiplexing was developed to overcome this problem.

TDM

Using MATLAB Implementation of TDM using MATLAB.

In this project we have implemented a TDM in MATLAB. In this program it is shown that how signal are multiplexed and how multiplexed look like