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Companding

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:38 am

Companding is formed from the words compressing and expanding. It is a PCM compression technique where analog signal values are rounded on a non-linear scale. The data is compressed before sent and then expanded at the receiving end using the same non-linear scale. Companding reduces the noise and crosstalk levels at the receiver.