Open AccessANALOG VS DIGITAL TERMINOLOGY
Author(s) -
Robert J. Sciamanda
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1943-2909
pISSN - 0002-9505
DOI - 10.1119/1.4928137
Subject(s) - physics , terminology , engineering physics , linguistics , philosophy
The blooming of digital computer technology has naturally spawned an evolving terminology describing the relevant concepts. I think it is time to attempt to clarify our use of the terms analog, digital, sampling, and quantization. Our literature and teaching often seem to conflate the terms digital, quantized, and sampled, and to oppose them to the term analog. Much clarification comes from simply observing the function of an analog to digital converter (ADC), schematically illustrated in Fig. 1.
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