JH, While preemphasis and deemphasis were primarily used in FM broadcasting and communications during the several past decades, these terms got somewhat new meanings in high-speed digital applications. Preemphasis means that you boost high-frequency components, deemphasis means the opposite: you suppress high-frequency components. In FM communications, the channel itself can be assumed to be flat in frequency response. Preemphasis will cancel with deemphasis, and this trick is used to suppress the high-frequency boost of noise that occurs in the demodulation process. In digital high-speed applications, the purpose of preemphasis-deemphasis is to compensate for the frequency dependent transfer function of traces and/or cables, and usually they ARE NOT used in pairs, because all what we want is to compensate for the loss of high-frequency components. Preemphasis in high-speed digital applications means that you boost the high-frequency components, usually by amplifying somewhat the leading edge after a longer period of no transitions. The problem with this approach is that leading edges will require more voltage swing at the driver, and the silicon may not like it. The other possibility to achieve the same affect is instead of boosting the leading edge, to suppress everything else. This is called deemphasis: you transmit the leading edge with the nominal amplitude, but make subsequent levels smaller. Again, as opposed to FM communications, you want to do either preemphasis or deemphasis, not both. Note that these are the simplest forms of channel compensation, more sophistaced forms also exist. Best regards, Istvan Novak SUN Microsystems ----- Original Message ----- From: "jianhaw.tw" <jianhaw.tw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <jianhaw.tw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:33 AM Subject: [SI-LIST] What's different between Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis? > Hi All, > Just want to ask one simple question which already > confused me a long time. > What's different between Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis? > Do they have different technology? > Or can anyone indicate which are good documents? > > Thanks a lot. > > JH Oct.19,2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu