Meeting Topic: Analog <--> Digital Conversion
Speaker Name: Mark Edwards
Meeting Location: The SAE Institute, South Melbourne
On Monday 24h November Melbourne Section Chairman, Mark Edwards presented a talk entitled "From Continuous to Discrete... and back again..."
The topic covered the process of analogue-digital-analogue conversion in a largely non-mathematical manner. Mark provided insight into the practical implementation of A/Ds and DACs and the importance of Nyquist filtering.
He was able to practically demonstrate, both audibly and visually, the real-life effect of attempting to operate converters beyond the Nyquist limit.
His presentation was followed by a Q&A session which covered, and expanded on the material which presented.
Mark cut through the maths of a difficult subject, and (to quote from a comment received after the meeting) "made the difficult-to-understand really comprehensible"
Written By: Peter Smerdon
