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What role does the holding capacitor play in a sample-and-hold circuit?

  • A.It sets the width of the sampling aperture in time
  • B.It retains the sampled voltage between clock instants
  • C.It filters components above half the sampling rate
  • D.It couples the sampled pulse train into the next stage

Answer: B

The capacitor stores the captured voltage so that the output stays flat until the next sample, which is what makes the output flat-top rather than natural. Anti-alias filtering happens before the circuit, coupling is a separate function, and the aperture width is set by the switch's drive rather than by the capacitor. Its leakage and the following stage's input current between them decide how much the held value droops, which is the specification that matters in practice.

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