ADC and Signal Processing Quiz

ADC stands for __________ and its main purpose is to __________.

Increasing the resolution of an ADC results in __________ quantization steps and __________ voltage discrimination.

The minimum sampling rate required to perfectly reconstruct a signal is called the __________, and it is equal to __________ times the maximum frequency.

Aliasing occurs when the __________.

The three main components of an ADC are __________, __________, and __________.

Which ADC type is best for high-accuracy, low-speed applications such as digital multimeters?

• Flash ADC

• Sigma-Delta ADC

• Successive Approximation ADC

• Dual Slope ADC

A 10-bit ADC with an input range of 0–5V has a quantization step of approximately __________.

True or False: Natural sampling uses pulses of infinitesimally short width at each sampling instant.

• True

• False

Flattop sampling is also known as __________.

The Shannon-Nyquist theorem states that a continuous-time band-limited signal can be reconstructed from discrete samples if the sampling frequency is __________.