Sunday, July 6, 2014

Electrical Signals

Analog signals are voltages that vary smoothly and continuous over time.  Analog signal can be either AC or DC.

Digital signals are pulses (on/off).

Analog-to-digital converters (ADC) and DAC converts the signals from one form to another.

Fourier theory said that any sinusoidal wave (like a square-wave digital signal) can be approximated by adding the base sine wave with its harmonics.  Usually the approximation is good enough for using 5 to 7 harmonics.

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