OTL552 Digital Audio Engineering Syllabus:
OTL552 Digital Audio Engineering Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2017
OBJECTIVES:
- To understand the concept of fundamentals of digital audio.
- To understand the concept of audio in digital TV broadcasting.
- To understand the various codes of digital coding.
- To understand the concept of digital audio tape recorder.
- To analyze the concept internet audio in digital audio engineering.
UNIT I FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL AUDIO
Discrete time sampling – sampling theorem – Nyquist frequency – aliasing – prevention – quantization – signal to error ratio – distortion – other architectures – dithers – types of dither.
UNIT II RECORDING AND TRANSMISSION PRINCIPLES
PCM – record processing – recording oriented codes – transmission-oriented codes – audio n digital TV broadcasting – DAB.
UNIT III DIGITAL CODING & COMPRESSION
Block & convolutional codes – cyclic codes – Reed Solomon codes – interleaving – compression principles – lossless & perceptive coding – subband codes – transform coding – compression formats – MPEG audio – Dolby AC 3 – ATRAC.
UNIT IV DIGITAL AUDIO TECHNIQUES
Digital audio tape recorder – cassettes – modes – track format – digital audio editing – editing with random access media & recording media – editor structure – digital audio in optical disks – CD, MD, DVD, playing optical disk – Minidisk.
UNIT V APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL AUDIO
Internet audio – MP3 – SDMI – audio MPEG 4 – PC – MIDI – sound cards.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. John Watkinson, “An Introduction to Digital Audio”, Focal Press, Second edition. 2013
2. Ken C Pohlmann, “Principles of Digital audio”, McGraw Hill, Sixth edition, 2010
REFERENCES:
1. Then Ballin, “Handbook for sound Engineers Taylor & Francis”, Fifth edition, 2015
2. John Watkinson, “The art of Digital Audio” Focal Press, Third edition, 2013