When electrical engineers hear the name "Nyquist," they think of what Harry Nyquist is best known for: his Sampling Theorem. Evidence of its importance is everywhere. Products like cell phones, audio ...

Bravo to Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon! In the 1920s, these gentlemen created the now-well-known Nyquist theorem, which states that when sampling a signal at discrete intervals, the sampling must ...

A digital scope’s effective bandwidth of isn’t determined merely by analog componentsthe digitizer and memory also play a role When selecting an oscilloscope for a specific measurement, the first ...

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 ...

An audio compact disc (CD) holds up to 74 minutes, 33 seconds of music, just enough for a complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on one disc. Each second of music is stored as a ...