Broadcast relay station

A converter is a device that converts information to another. The form can be a general information form, signal or general data form. Examples include analog -to-digital converter, the converter or encoder. Many called a converter, adapter or converter transformer units are in the strict sense. See also transmission and translation (technology). There are lossless and lossy converter. Converters are often reversible ( irreversible ), but only in fully lossless conversion, such as digital signal processing.

In addition, the term refers to devices with local, spatially associated in the field of wireless technology described in the article converter ( radio engineering ) are described.

Examples of converter

• Analog- to-digital converter
• Digital- to-analog converter
• Measurement converter
• UHF converter
• Decoder
• Encoder