Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) have been around since the beginning of the digital age. With the introduction of the single-chip DSP pioneered by Texas Instruments in the late 1970s and early 1980s, engineers had the tools for building systems that could easily surpass the performance of their analog counterparts...
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