Aliasing is thankfully becoming a less frequent problem due to improved instrument designs. Users should still be aware of it to prevent time- and money-costly errors. Aliasing is an ever-present ...

Previous articles in Planet Analog make mention of the “aliasing effect.” Most EEs agree in the importance of the aliasing effect as a noise source and take for granted that anti-aliasing filters are ...

Suppose you take a few measurements of a time-varying signal. Let’s say for concreteness that you have a microcontroller that reads some voltage 100 times per second. Collecting a bunch of data points ...

A look at the Nyquist sampling theorem. How to deal with aliasing by attenuating signals using low-pass filters (i.e., an antialiasing filter, or AAF). AAF requirements for different ADCs. A deep dive ...

Sampling a signal causes the original signal spectrum (blue) to create sum (purple) and difference (red) frequencies around the sampling frequency, fS. When the difference signals fall into the ...

(1) Smoothing a distorted communications signal by applying techniques that add data or filter out unwanted noise. (2) Smoothing the jagged appearance of diagonal lines in a bitmapped image. The ...