A continuous-time signal is sampled at the rate of 1 GHz. Each sample is quantized to 16 bits. How many bytes of memory are necessary to record one hour of the signal?
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Since the signal is sampled at a rate of 1 GHz, there are 1 billion samples taken per second. Therefore, in one hour (3600 seconds), there would be 1 billion x 3600 = 3.6 x 10^12 samples. Show more…
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