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Only a few of these modular components have been designed so far: the AVR-X (an Arduino-compatible microcontroller), FRAM-X (512 byte chunks of stackable Ferroelectric RAM) and ADC-X (an 8-channel analog to digital converter).
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Those charges are funneled en masse through a single analog-to-digital converter, which outputs each pixel's value in ones and zeros.
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Pixim's innovation is to give each pixel its own analog-to-digital converter so that photons are continuously converted to ones and zeros and the camera's microprocessor can tell exactly how fast each pixel is filling up relative to the other pixels.
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The idea of this Vivo X1 is that BBK wants to take audio very seriously on its new flagship phone, which is why it's been given a Cirrus Logic CS4398 digital-analog converter plus a CS8422 sample-rate converter -- a combo that's seemingly popular amongst Hi-Fi connoisseurs and manufacturers.
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It then either sends that signal straight to your own electronics or uses its own superb digital-to-analog converter to decode it.
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In order to implement his design, Pascal had to design and custom manufacture a digital-to-analog video converter board using direct-to-PCB inkjet printing.
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Case in point: the Icon iDo integrated digital-to-analog converter (also called a DAC) and integrated amplifier is geared specifically toward Apple portable devices like the iPhone and iPad.
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As a test, I downloaded files from HDtracks.com, an online retailer specializing in hi-res audio, plugged a device known as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into my computer and listened over earphones.
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