Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 3

Glossary

This glossary is not comprehensive. It contains only the technical terms that have been used most frequently in this book in conjunction with sensor attributes.

ADC Analog-to-digital converter, which accepts a varying signal (usually, a voltage) as an input, and converts it to a digital value in the form of a binary number. This number is likely to have a high limit ranging from 255 decimal to 65535 decimal. Many microcontrollers contain their own ADC, which is multiplexed to assess the inputs on several pins. On an Arduino Uno, the ADC creates a digital value ranging from 0 through 1,023.

analog output When a sensor creates a voltage or varies its resistance without steps or increments, as a function of the phenomenon that it is ...