Practical Electronics Handbook

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PRACTICALELECTRONICSHANDBOOKPRACTICALELE CTRONICSHANDBOOKSIXTHEDITIONIANR. SINCLAIR ANDJOHNDUNTONAMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORKOXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCOSINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYONewnes is an imprint of ElsevierNewnes is an imprint of ElsevierLinacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford, OX2 8DP30 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803First edition 1980Reprinted 1982, 1983 (with revisions), 1987Second edition 1988Reprinted 1990Third edition 1992Fourth edition 1994Reprinted 1997, 1998, 1999Fifth edition 2000Reprinted 2001Sixth edition 2007Copyright 1980, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2007, Ian R. Sinclair and John Dunton. Published by Elsevier rights reservedThe right of Ian R. Sinclair and John Dunton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted inaccordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or byany means electronic , mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission ofthe publisherPermission may be sought directly from Elsevier s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford,UK: phone (+44)

Introduction 343 Digital-to-analogue converters (DACs) 344 Digital potentiometer 345 Binary weighted resistor converter 345 The R2R ladder 347 Charge distribution DAC 348 Pulse width modulator 349 Reconstruction filter 350 Analogue-to-digital converters 351 Resolution and quantization 352 Sampling 356 Aliasing 356 Successive approximation

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