An analog signal has a sine wave form and a binary signal has a block "wave" form. The binary signal is either on or off ("up" or "down"), and never anything in between. analog: http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/7723sineuk6.jpg
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The sound made by a tuning fork is converted into varying voltages by a microphone.
If a voltage / time graph is drawn on the face of an oscilloscope the wave drawn by the electron beam is a sine wave and looks looks like a regular series of waves on the ocean having equal spacing and wave height. This is an analogue signal since it has an infinite number of voltage levels.
A digital signal usually has only two voltage levels ,on (logic 1) and off (logic 0), like a switch,if it is representing binary format. But a digital signal can also be represented in other formats or bases as well.
If a voltage / time graph is drawn for a digital signal the beam draws a picture like the top of the wall of a castle. This is called a square wave and is a form of digital signal.
Once you have a digital representation of an analogue signal it can be stored in a computer memory and identically reproduced endlessly.
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Analog signals are continuous while digital signals are discrete
1. Digital Signal is non-continuous signal where as analog is continuous signal 2. Digital signal contain only two value that is 0 or 1,or high or low where as analog contain all the values in it's time interval 3.Chance of attenuation in analog is more then digital signal
analog video is generally a type of video form in which we have numerous waves in terms of crests and troughs in a continuous manner upside-down on X axis whereas, in digital video we have many bars that are upawrds and then downwards on X axis in a continuous manner that also includes two types of binary bits, either 0 or 1.
An analog control system is one that presents data by measuring a continuous variable. This reports the data back in voltage or pressure.
I'm not sure if you are speaking of a specific instance.... However, a digital signal is a binary representation of the analog signal. The analog signal is constantly measured and the amplitude (voltage at the time of sample) of the analog signal is converted to a binary number at specific intervals (the frequency of the sample rate). The higher the frequency of the sample rate, the more accurate the representation of the analog signal.
The basic difference is that in analog modulation the modulating signal is analog signal and in digital modulation it is in digital form.
The main difference between the tow is the signal. VGA uses an analog signal and DVI is a digital signal.
an encoder is used to convert the binary signals into analog signals. the binary signals are fed to encoder section. then these signals are get converted into its equivalent analog signals. Binary DAC.
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It's a device that samples an analog signal and outputs an equivalent binary value
we can do analog signal processing also but it is very expensive as comparing with digital signal processing that's why we generally choose the digital signal processing.DSP allows programmable operations.But we cannot do in ASP.
You sample the signal to get a number, base that number in binary, and store it. Do it often.
In an analog phone, the mechanical energy of sound (speech) is picked up by a microphone (mic) and converted into an (analog) electrical signal. This signal is then put through whatever electronics stages are required (if any) to get the signal onto a phone pair for transmission to the receiver. In a digital cell phone, the mic picks up the sound and converts that into an analog electrical signal. That analog signal is then sent to an electrical stage called an analog-to-digital (A to D) converter. Once the signal is digitized, it can be treated as a data string and amplified and broadcast (to the cell hub) as such. An incoming call is a digital data string that is D to A converted in the phone and then the newly recovered analog signal is made to be heard by the user. The difference between the two is the conversion and re-conversion (analog to digital and digital to analog) in the digital cell phone.
Analog communication considers infinite amplitude levels. But in digital communication only 2 levels of signal is present.
In a analog transmitter the RF carrier have to be modulated with the analog signal either by AM or FM where in digital transmitter the carrier is simply switched on and off a off = a zero and on = a one
Analog signals are continuous while digital signals are discrete