Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
An analog signal is a continuous signal that contains time-varying quantities. Unlike a digital signal, which
has a discrete value at each sampling point, an analog signal has constant fluctuations. The illustration
below shows an analog pattern (represented as the curve) alongside a digital pattern (represented as the
discrete lines).
An analog signal can be used to measure changes in some physical phenomena such as light, sound,
pressure, or temperature. For instance, an analog microphone can convert sound waves into an analog
signal. Even in digital devices, there is typically some analog component that is used to take in
information from the external world, which will then get translated into digital form (using an analog-to-
digital converter).