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Fundamentals of Mixed Signals and Sensors PDF

Signals can be analog, representing information as continuous variables, or digital, representing information as discrete values. Sensors are devices that detect changes in the environment and send that information as signals to electronics and processors. Specifically, an analog signal continuously represents another changing quantity over time, a digital signal represents data as a sequence of discrete values, and sensors detect events or changes and transmit the information as signals to other devices like computers.

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Fundamentals of Mixed Signals and Sensors PDF

Signals can be analog, representing information as continuous variables, or digital, representing information as discrete values. Sensors are devices that detect changes in the environment and send that information as signals to electronics and processors. Specifically, an analog signal continuously represents another changing quantity over time, a digital signal represents data as a sequence of discrete values, and sensors detect events or changes and transmit the information as signals to other devices like computers.

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Fundamentals of Mixed

Signals and Sensors


Signal
a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. In electronics and
telecommunications, it refers to any time varying voltage, current or electromagnetic wave that
carries information. A signal may also be defined as an observable change in a quality such as
quantity.
Analog Signal
An analog signal is any continuous signal for which the time-varying feature of the signal is a
representation of some other time-varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time-varying
signal.
Digital Signal
A digital signal is a signal that is being used to represent data as a sequence of discrete values; at
any given time it can only take on, at most, one of a finite number of values.
Sensors
a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or
changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics, frequently a
computer processor. A sensor is always used with other electronics.

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