digital to analog
Binary becomes continuous
Digital to analog describes the conversion of discrete numerical data into continuous signals.
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) transforms the ones and zeros of digital audio into the smooth electrical waves that speakers need to produce sound.
The phrase appears in technical contexts involving signal processing: The digital to analog conversion happens in the amplifier.
- converterDevice that transforms input
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- signal processingMathematical manipulation of waveforms
- voltageElectrical potential difference
- sample rateCaptures per time unit
bit depth · bits · audio · sound card · audio interface · hi-fi system · vinyl · circuit · chip · resolution · output · frequency · modulation · synthesizer · oscillator · transistor · discrete · bandwidth
- conversionconverting, converts, data conversion, file conversion, format conversion
- conversionsconvert, exchange rate, encoding, transcoding, reformatting
- signal processingsignal processing, FFT, convolution, sampling, aliasing
digital to analoganalog-to-digital
Continuous-to-discrete signal transformation
ADC · digitization · sampling · encoding · quantization
digital, analog, digit, digits, digitize, digitized, digitizing, digitization, digitally