contact closure

Signal Processing

A simple signaling system based on whether a contact or switch is open or closed. The conventional protocol is to interpret a closed contact (on) as a binary 1 and an open contact (off) as a binary 0.

Related Terms

analog-to-digital/digital-to-analog (AD/DA or A to D/D to A) converters artifact attenuate balanced circuit balun

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