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Pulse Code Modulation

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Primary Care Manager

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Please Call Me

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Power Control Module

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Project Cycle Management

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Prevention Case Management

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PIMCO Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust, Inc.

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Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

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Parallel Cache Management

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Partido Comunista de Mexico

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Pulse Code Modulator

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Product Change Management

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Personal Call Manager

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Pulse Coding Modulation

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Plug Compatible Manufacturers

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Project Cost Model

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Program Coordination Meeting

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Propose Critique Modify

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Powertrain Control Module

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Postal Commodity Machine

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Pento Cyleinic Methyl

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What does PCM mean?

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Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a method used to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio in computers, compact discs, digital telephony and other digital audio applications. In a PCM stream, the amplitude of the analog signal is sampled at uniform intervals, and each sample is quantized to the nearest value within a range of digital steps. Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) is a specific type of PCM in which the quantization levels are linearly uniform. This is in contrast to PCM encodings in which quantization levels vary as a function of amplitude (as with the A-law algorithm or the μ-law algorithm). Though PCM is a more general term, it is often used to describe data encoded as LPCM. A PCM stream has two basic properties that determine the stream's fidelity to the original analog signal: the sampling rate, which is the number of times per second that samples are taken; and the bit depth, which determines the number of possible digital values that can be used to represent each sample.

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