Digital-to-analog converter, the Glossary

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1. 100 relations: Abstract and concrete, Aliasing, Amplifier, Analog Devices, Analog signal, Analog television, Analog-to-digital converter, Analogue electronics, Analogue filter, Audio bit depth, Audio power amplifier, Audio signal, Bandwidth (signal processing), Baseband, Behzad Razavi, Binary logarithm, Binary number, Bit, Bit numbering, Capacitor, CD player, Color depth, Compact disc, Computer data storage, Current source, Decibel, Delta-sigma modulation, Differential nonlinearity, Digital data, Digital electronics, Digital potentiometer, Digital signal (signal processing), Digital speaker, Digital Visual Interface, Distortion, Dynamic range, Effective number of bits, Electric current, Electronic component, Electronics, Enabling technology, Figure of merit, Fixed-point arithmetic, Flat-panel display, Gamma correction, Hardware architecture, HDMI, High fidelity, IBM Selectric, Information Age, ... Expand index (50 more) »

Abstract and concrete

In metaphysics, the distinction between abstract and concrete refers to a divide between two types of entities.

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Aliasing

In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing is the overlapping of frequency components resulting from a sample rate below the Nyquist rate. Digital-to-analog converter and aliasing are digital signal processing.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current). Digital-to-analog converter and amplifier are electronic circuits.

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Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), also known simply as Analog, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing, and power management technology, headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

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Analog signal

An analog signal is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity.

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Analog television

Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.

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Analog-to-digital converter

In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal. Digital-to-analog converter and analog-to-digital converter are analog computers, digital signal processing and electronic circuits.

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Analogue electronics

Analogue electronics (analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels.

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Analogue filter

Analogue filters are a basic building block of signal processing much used in electronics.

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Audio bit depth

In digital audio using pulse-code modulation (PCM), bit depth is the number of bits of information in each sample, and it directly corresponds to the resolution of each sample.

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Audio power amplifier

An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup, to a level that is high enough for driving loudspeakers or headphones.

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Audio signal

An audio signal is a representation of sound, typically using either a changing level of electrical voltage for analog signals, or a series of binary numbers for digital signals.

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Bandwidth (signal processing)

Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.

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Baseband

In telecommunications and signal processing, baseband is the range of frequencies occupied by a signal that has not been modulated to higher frequencies.

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Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi (بهزاد رضوی) is an Iranian-American professor and researcher of electrical and electronic engineering.

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Binary logarithm

In mathematics, the binary logarithm is the power to which the number must be raised to obtain the value.

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Binary number

A binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, a method for representing numbers that uses only two symbols for the natural numbers: typically "0" (zero) and "1" (one).

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Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.

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Bit numbering

In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.

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Capacitor

In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other.

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CD player

A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Color depth

Color depth or colour depth (see spelling differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

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Computer data storage

Computer data storage or digital data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.

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Current source

A current source is an electronic circuit that delivers or absorbs an electric current which is independent of the voltage across it.

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Decibel

The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B).

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Delta-sigma modulation

Delta-sigma (ΔΣ; or sigma-delta, ΣΔ) modulation is an oversampling method for encoding signals into low bit depth digital signals at a very high sample-frequency as part of the process of delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Digital-to-analog converter and delta-sigma modulation are digital signal processing.

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Differential nonlinearity

Differential nonlinearity (acronym DNL) is a commonly used measure of performance in digital-to-analog (DAC) and analog-to-digital (ADC) converters. Digital-to-analog converter and Differential nonlinearity are digital signal processing.

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Digital data

Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.

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Digital electronics

Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.

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Digital potentiometer

A digital potentiometer (also called a resistive digital-to-analog converter, or informally a digipot) is a digitally-controlled electronic component that mimics the analog functions of a potentiometer.

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Digital signal (signal processing)

In the context of digital signal processing (DSP), a digital signal is a discrete time, quantized amplitude signal. Digital-to-analog converter and digital signal (signal processing) are digital signal processing.

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Digital speaker

Digital speakers or digital sound reconstruction (DSR) systems are a form of loudspeaker technology.

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Digital Visual Interface

Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface developed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).

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Distortion

In signal processing, distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of a signal.

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Dynamic range

Dynamic range (abbreviated DR, DNR, or DYR) is the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume.

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Effective number of bits

Effective number of bits (ENOB) is a measure of the dynamic range of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), digital-to-analog converter, or their associated circuitry. Digital-to-analog converter and Effective number of bits are digital signal processing.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.

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Electronic component

An electronic component is any basic discrete electronic device or physical entity part of an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields. Digital-to-analog converter and electronic component are electronic circuits.

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Electronics

Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.

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Enabling technology

An enabling technology is an invention or innovation that can be applied to drive radical change in the capabilities of a user or culture.

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Figure of merit

A figure of merit (FOM) is a performance metric that characterizes the performance of a device, system, or method, relative to its alternatives.

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Fixed-point arithmetic

In computing, fixed-point is a method of representing fractional (non-integer) numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part.

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Flat-panel display

A flat-panel display (FPD) is an electronic display used to display visual content such as text or images.

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Gamma correction

Gamma correction or gamma is a nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.

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Hardware architecture

In engineering, hardware architecture refers to the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships.

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HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.

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High fidelity

High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound.

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IBM Selectric

The IBM Selectric (a portmanteau of "selective" and "electric") was a highly successful line of electric typewriters introduced by IBM on 31 July 1961.

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Information Age

The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.

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Integral nonlinearity

Integral nonlinearity (acronym INL) is a commonly used measure of performance in digital-to-analog (DAC) and analog-to-digital (ADC) converters. Digital-to-analog converter and Integral nonlinearity are digital signal processing.

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Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.

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Jitter

In electronics and telecommunications, jitter is the deviation from true periodicity of a presumably periodic signal, often in relation to a reference clock signal.

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Johnson–Nyquist noise

Johnson–Nyquist noise (thermal noise, Johnson noise, or Nyquist noise) is the electronic noise generated by the thermal agitation of the charge carriers (usually the electrons) inside an electrical conductor at equilibrium, which happens regardless of any applied voltage.

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LED lamp

An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

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Line level

Line level is the specified strength of an audio signal used to transmit analog sound between audio components such as CD and DVD players, television sets, audio amplifiers, and mixing consoles.

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Loudspeaker

A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.

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Microphone

A microphone, colloquially called a mic, or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.

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Mixed-signal integrated circuit

A mixed-signal integrated circuit is any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Mobile telephony

Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to mobile phones rather than fixed-location phones (landline phones).

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Monotonic function

In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order.

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MOSFET

W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.

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Motor controller

A motor controller is a device or group of devices that can coordinate in a predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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Network packet

In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network.

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Noise floor

In signal theory, the noise floor is the measure of the signal created from the sum of all the noise sources and unwanted signals within a measurement system, where noise is defined as any signal other than the one being monitored.

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Nyquist frequency

In signal processing, the Nyquist frequency (or folding frequency), named after Harry Nyquist, is a characteristic of a sampler, which converts a continuous function or signal into a discrete sequence. Digital-to-analog converter and Nyquist frequency are digital signal processing.

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Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem is an essential principle for digital signal processing linking the frequency range of a signal and the sample rate required to avoid a type of distortion called aliasing. Digital-to-analog converter and Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem are digital signal processing.

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Operational amplifier

An operational amplifier (often op amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input, a (usually) single-ended output, and an extremely high gain.

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Optical communication

Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information.

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Oscilloscope

An oscilloscope (informally scope or O-scope) is a type of electronic test instrument that graphically displays varying voltages of one or more signals as a function of time.

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Oversampling

In signal processing, oversampling is the process of sampling a signal at a sampling frequency significantly higher than the Nyquist rate. Digital-to-analog converter and oversampling are digital signal processing.

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Phase distortion

In signal processing, phase distortion or phase-frequency distortion is distortion, that is, change in the shape of the waveform, that occurs when (a) a filter's phase response is not linear over the frequency range of interest, that is, the phase shift introduced by a circuit or device is not directly proportional to frequency, or (b) the zero-frequency intercept of the phase-frequency characteristic is not 0 or an integral multiple of 2π radians.

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A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.

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Pressure

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.

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Pulse-width modulation

Pulse-width modulation (PWM), also known as pulse-duration modulation (PDM) or pulse-length modulation (PLM), is any method of representing a signal as a rectangular wave with a varying duty cycle (and for some methods also a varying period).

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Quantization (signal processing)

Quantization, in mathematics and digital signal processing, is the process of mapping input values from a large set (often a continuous set) to output values in a (countable) smaller set, often with a finite number of elements. Digital-to-analog converter and Quantization (signal processing) are digital signal processing.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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RAMDAC

A Brooktree RAMDAC A RAMDAC (random-access memory digital-to-analog converter) is a combination of three fast digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with a small static random-access memory (SRAM) used in computer graphics display controllers or video cards to store the color palette and to generate the analog signals (usually a voltage amplitude) to drive a color monitor.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Resistor

A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element.

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Resistor ladder

A resistor ladder is an electrical circuit made from repeating units of resistors, in specific configurations.

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Sampling (signal processing)

In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal. Digital-to-analog converter and sampling (signal processing) are digital signal processing.

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Semiconductor device fabrication

Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as computer processors, microcontrollers, and memory chips (such as NAND flash and DRAM).

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Signal

Signal refers to both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Digital-to-analog converter and Signal are digital signal processing.

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SINAD

The signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SINAD) is a measure of the quality of a signal from a communications device, often defined as \mathrm.

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Sound card

A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs.

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Spurious-free dynamic range

Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is the strength ratio of the fundamental signal to the strongest spurious signal in the output. Digital-to-analog converter and spurious-free dynamic range are digital signal processing.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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Time series

In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order.

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Total harmonic distortion

The total harmonic distortion (THD or THDi) is a measurement of the harmonic distortion present in a signal and is defined as the ratio of the sum of the powers of all harmonic components to the power of the fundamental frequency.

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Transport (recording)

A transport is a device that handles a particular physical storage medium (such as magnetic tape, audio CD, CD-R, or other type of recordable media) itself, and extracts or records the information to and from the medium, to (and from) an outboard set of processing electronics that the transport is connected to.

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Unary coding

Unary coding, or the unary numeral system and also sometimes called thermometer code, is an entropy encoding that represents a natural number, n, with a code of length n + 1 (or n), usually n ones followed by a zero (if natural number is understood as non-negative integer) or with n − 1 ones followed by a zero (if natural number is understood as strictly positive integer).

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USB

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.

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Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls for the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

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Voltage

Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.

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Whippletree (mechanism)

A whippletree, or whiffletree, is a mechanism to distribute force evenly through linkages.

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White noise

In signal processing, white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density.

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1-bit DAC

A 1-bit DAC (sometimes called Bitstream converter by Philips) is a consumer electronics marketing term describing an oversampling digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that uses a digital noise shaping delta-sigma modulator operating at many multiples of the sampling frequency that outputs to an actual 1-bit DAC (which could be fully differential to minimize crosstalk).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter

Also known as Analog decoding, D to a, D-a-c, D-to-A, D/A, D/A converter, D/A-converter, D2A, DA conversion, DA-converter, Digital to Analog, Digital to analog converter, Digital to analog convertor, Digital to analogue converter, Digital to analogue convertor, Digital-analog conversion, Digital-to-analog, Digital-to-analog conversion, Digital-to-analog converters, Digital-to-analog convertor, Digital-to-analogue converter.

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