In order to implement his design, Pascal had to design and custom manufacture a digital-to-analog video converter board using direct-to-PCB inkjet printing.
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Researchers ultimately envision smart prosthetic limbs with near-natural reflexes, completely soft robots with complex gestures and even a switch from digital to analog computing for some tasks.
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As a test, I downloaded files from HDtracks.com, an online retailer specializing in hi-res audio, plugged a device known as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into my computer and listened over earphones.
Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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On Monday, the U.S. Senate passed the DTV Delay Act, which postpones the deadline to switch from an analog to a digital signal to June 12 from Feb. 17.
In this case, it refers to taking a series of tiny snapshots of the analog audio to be converted into a digital number.
There's a certain cachet to being an analog soul in a digital world, Horchow said.
Some of the frequencies to be auctioned have been freed as a result of the switch from analog to digital TV.
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The headsets contain a sensor that detects various mental states, and a chip converts the signals from analog format to digital so they can travel wirelessly to a computer.
Like its predecessors, the MAS 102 offers CD playbacks, FM radio, and a host of analog and digital inputs to playback music from external devices.
At stake is a premium slice of 700 MHz bandwidth that is being freed up as analog TV stations transition to a digital format.
Those charges are funneled en masse through a single analog-to-digital converter, which outputs each pixel's value in ones and zeros.
It comes with various buttons and LEDs, a serial interface to your PC and numerous digital and analog ins and outs.
Digital cable service usually costs more than analog service because it generally requires subscribers to pay a monthly fee for a digital cable box.
This has led to a great increase in the amount of genealogical information that has been converted from analog original sources to digital sources available for on-line searching and access.
It uses a technology called PurePath Digital to amplify the ones and zeros of an audio stream without having to convert it to analog (a process that can introduce noise).
Case in point: the Icon iDo integrated digital-to-analog converter (also called a DAC) and integrated amplifier is geared specifically toward Apple portable devices like the iPhone and iPad.
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The new Philips displays also boasted a DVI (Digital Video Input) connector in addition to the conventional VGA analog input.
Tucked away in the "Deficit Reduction Act of 2005" Bush signed this month is a provision requiring television broadcasters to switch their signals from analog to digital by Feb. 19, 2009.
To do this, you have to do a lot of things that are not digital, they are analog.
They have been headed in that direction for several years--in 2006, digital sets will outsell analog sets at a ratio by a two-to-one ratio, the Consumer Electronics Association estimates--but the new law will accelerate that trend.
In the early 1990s its engineers figured out how to squeeze a digital soundtrack onto a piece of film without losing the analog soundtrack, by putting the digital track into the spaces between the sprocket holes on a piece of film.
All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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Since then there has been a rush to bring on more partners and raise more funds to perfect the technically tricky art of pairing a digital signal with the existing analog signals while meeting strict FCC requirements.
This little experiment does require every analog subscriber to switch over to digital but TWC says only a "distinct minority" will be affected.
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Qualcomm started out making satellite-based tracking systems for trucking companies, but Irwin had far bigger plans:selling the world on a new digital way to connect cellular calls and carry 40 times as much traffic as the old analog systems then in place.
Kramer says he spent a year remastering the old analog tapes, using state-of-the-art digital technology to clean up the sound.
By talking to your iPhone, Siri converts an analog input (your voice) into a digital response, but the process while amazing still requires a human.
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And about 40% more will be able to view the digital signal through a digital cable or satellite set-top box on an analog TV they already own.
That happened on a smaller scale in the 1990s, when manufacturers introduced three incompatible digital sound systems (in addition to the existing analog system).
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