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A-Law Compressor - Implement A-law compressor for source coding

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Source Coding

Description

The A-Law Compressor block implements an A-law compressor for the input signal. The formula for the A-law compressor is

where A is the A-law parameter of the compressor, V is the peak signal magnitude for x, log is the natural logarithm, and sgn is the signum function (sign in MATLAB software).

The most commonly used A value is 87.6.

The input can have any shape or frame status. This block processes each vector element independently.

Dialog Box

A value

The A-law parameter of the compressor.

Peak signal magnitude

The peak value of the input signal. This is also the peak value of the output signal.

Supported Data Type

PortSupported Data Types
In
  • double

Out
  • double

Pair Block

A-Law Expander

See Also

Mu-Law Compressor

References

[1] Sklar, Bernard. Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1988.

  


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