On 3/6/2015 3:11 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

Plus, DSPs do not look at amplitude. They measure the instantaneous
slope of the signal and store it as a digital value depending on the
number of bits, i.e. 16 bit samples would have 2^15 negative slope
values and 2^15-1 positive slope values (plus zero slope). By
recreating the instantaneous slope that is stored digitally, the DAC
converts the digital signal back to an analog signal.

This is just plain wrong. I'm not sure why you make a distinction
between DSP's [sic] and any other digital device since a DSP is not
needed at all to digitize or compress a signal, but the sample produced
by an ADC *is* the instantaneous value of the signal and not the slope.
If you were to compare adjacent ADC samples and calculate the slope
that would be a form of ADPCM. The DAC in turn converts this
instantaneous value back into analog followed by filtering to remove the
higher frequency images if important.

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Rick