Friday, 22 July 2005
A.Farina,
L.Tronchin
12/86
ADC
(Analog to Digital Converter)
Conceptually
a black box connecting with two wires:
•Analog input (sound signal)
•Digital output (serial digital interface)
Two different types
of ADCs:
1.PCM
converters (Pulse Code Modulation – CD, DAT, DVD)
2.
Bitstream converters (DSD,
Direct Stream Digital, also called single-bit, employed in SACD).