Equation 2 · Part 3 · How Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems Actually Work
Symbol N
What this part means
N is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
N is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
Once the signal is a clean, conditioned voltage, it has to become a digital code, and that conversion is not free either. An analog-to-digital converter maps a continuous voltage onto one of 2^N discrete codes spaced by a quantization step = /2^{N} , and that rounding itself injects noise, with power approximately /12 spread across the sampled bandwidth. The industry-standard way to describe and test this — offset error, gain error, integral and differential nonlinearity, effective number of bits — is defined by IEEE Standard 1241, which exists precisely so that a converter from one vendor can be compared against another using the same measured definitions rather than…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [12] IEEE Standard for Terminology and Test Methods for Analog-to-Digital Converters ↗
- [11] A High-Dynamic-Range Switched-Capacitor Sigma-Delta ADC for Digital Micromechanical Vibration Gyroscopes ↗
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