Quantization Error

In analog-to-digital conversion, the difference between the actual analog value and quantized digital value is called quantization error or quantization distortion. This error is either due to rounding or truncation. The error signal is sometimes considered as an additional random signal called quantization noise because of its stochastic behaviour.

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