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Digital To Analog Conversion
Digital To Analog Conversion
Sometimes the output of a DSP system can be used directly, without conversion of a digital signal back to an analog signal. This is often the case in signal analysis systems, and sometimes in control or communication systems. However, in many cases the DSP system must interface with the analog world at both ends (input and output). In those cases, the digital signal must be converted back to an analog form. The digital signal is a sequence of integers in binary format. The first step in converting the signal from digital to analog form is to convert each integer in the sequence to a Voltage (or current). There are many circuits which do this, and a discussion of their internal operation is beyond the scope of this course.
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
V(n)
Zero-Order Hold
V(n)
Zero-Order Hold
The Matlab stem command was used to plot the sample values in this fashion.
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V(n)
Zero-Order Hold
Recovery Filter
V(t)
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
V(n)
Zero-Order Hold
Recovery Filter
V(t)
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Analog-to-Digital Conversion
At the input end of the system, we have the analog-to-digital converter, or ADC. The ADC may inclode both the quantizer and the sample-andhold, or it may consist of the quantizer only, with an external sampleand-hold.
V(t)
N-bit quantizer
Vq(n)