For ten points, identify this electronic component, used to translate continuous signals into discrete ones.
One implementation of this device relies on dual-slope integration, which eliminates the need for a precision capacitor, but is slow. Another technique for implementing one of these is successive-approximation, in which the output is fed back into a comparator to determine whether it needs to be increased, decreased, or is accurate. For signals with Laplacian distributions, a logarithmic one is often used. All of them suffer from the quantization error, which lies between zero and half of one least-significant-byte, and their sampling rate is determined by the Shannon-Nyquist theorem. For ten points, identify this electronic component, used to translate continuous signals into discrete ones.
One implementation of this device relies on dual-slope integration, which eliminates the need for a precision capacitor, but is slow.
A/D converter or analog-to-digital converter (do not accept D/A or anything else with the answers in the wrong order)