Title :
Effective Bits: Is That All There Is?
Author :
Linnenbrink, Thomas E.
Abstract :
The number of effective bits is becoming accepted as an overall measure of dynamic performance for analog-to-digital converters and waveform recorders. However, units with the same number of effective bits can respond very differently to waveforms of identical input data.
Keywords :
Analog-digital conversion; Conductors; Electron tubes; Frequency; Instruments; Linearity; Noise figure; Quantization; Testing; Thermal conductivity;
Journal_Title :
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIM.1984.4315198
