Demodulation is the act of extracting the original information-bearing signal from a modulated carrier wave.

A demodulator is anelectronic circuit (or computer program in a software-defined radio) that is used to recover the information content from the modulatedcarrier wave[1] The demodulator ta es the digital data and! using the staircase ma er and the dela" unit! creates the analog signal. The created analog signal! however! needs to pass through a low-pass filter for smoothing. There are several wa"s of demodulation depending on how parameters of the base-band signal are transmitted in the carrier signal! such as amplitude! fre#uenc" or phase. $or example! for a signal modulated with a linear modulation! li e A% (amplitude modulation)! we can use a s"nchronous detector. &n the other hand! for a signal modulated with an angular modulation! we must use an $% (fre#uenc" modulation) demodulator or a '% (phase modulation) demodulator. (ifferent inds of circuits perform these functions. %an" techni#ues)such as carrier recover"! cloc recover"! bit slip! frame s"nchroni*ation! ra e receiver! pulse compression! +eceived ,ignal ,trength -ndication! error detection and correction! etc. -- are onl" performed b" demodulators! although an" specific demodulator ma" perform onl" some or none of these techni#ues. .loc diagram of delta demodulator/

The delta demodulator consists of a D-flip flop a unipolar to bipolar converter followed by an integrator and a low pass filter. The delta demodulator receives the data from D-flip flop of delta modulator. It latches this data at every rising edge of receiver clock, which is delayed by half clock period with respect to transmitter clock. This has been done so that the data from transmitter may settle down before being latched into the receiver flip flop. The unipolar to bipolar converter changes the output from D-flip flop to either 4 logic "#$ and "%$ respectively. &s it has been seen in case of modulator when the output from unipolar to bipolar converter is applied to integrator, its output tries to follow the analog signal in ramp fashion and hence is a good appro'imation of the signal itself. The integrator$s output contains sharp edges which are "smoothened out$ by the low - pass filter, whose cut-off fre(uency is )ust above the audio band. &D &*T&+,- ./ D,0T& 1.D20&TI.*3 or ! 4 for