• DocumentCode
    1205014
  • Title

    Effective Bits: Is That All There Is?

  • Author

    Linnenbrink, Thomas E.

  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    184
  • Lastpage
    187
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9456
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIM.1984.4315198
  • Filename
    4315198