Chapter 6 Theory of Analog Operation

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National Instruments Corporation 6-11 PCI-4451/4452 User Manual

of eight times the sample rate, as shown in Figure 6-5c. Still, images remain and they must be filtered out. Each output channel of the PCI-4451 has discrete-time (switched-capacitor) and continuous-time analog filters that remove the high-frequency images, as shown in Figure6-5d.

Figure 6-5. Signal Spectra in the DAC

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Baseband Signal Images
a. Spectrum of Sampled Signal
b. Spectrum of Signal After Digital Filter
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Baseband Signal Images After the Digital Filter
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c. Spectrum of Signal After DAC
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Baseband Signal Images After the DAC
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Amplitude
d. Spectrum of Signal After Analog Filters
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Baseband Signal
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