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
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