This document discusses digital-to-analog conversion techniques. It describes how digital data needs to be carried by an analog signal using techniques like amplitude shift keying (ASK), frequency shift keying (FSK), and phase shift keying (PSK). In ASK, the amplitude of the carrier signal is changed to represent the digital data. In FSK, frequencies are changed to represent digital bits. In PSK, the phase of the carrier is shifted. More advanced techniques like quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) combine ASK and PSK by using two carriers in quadrature to represent even more data. Diagrams are provided to illustrate these techniques.