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ADC
3 entries across the knowledge base
Sensors & transducersHow a temperature, a pressure or a heartbeat becomes a number: the transducer that converts physiology to a voltage, then the chain that digitises it.concept · 5 min · foundationMicrocontrollers — the brain of a deviceThe little computer-on-a-chip that runs the firmware inside a glucose meter, a wearable or an infusion pump: CPU, memory and the pins that touch the real world.concept · 4 min · foundationADC & DAC — turning signals into numbersThe converters at the border between the analog world and the computer: an ADC samples a waveform into numbers, a DAC turns numbers back into a signal.concept · 4 min · foundation