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Δ2/12\Delta^2/12

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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 Δ\Delta = VFSV_{FS}/2^{N} , and that rounding itself injects noise, with power approximately Δ2\Delta^2/12 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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Δ2/12\Delta^2/12

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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 Δ\Delta = VFSV_{FS}/2^{N} , and that rounding itself injects noise, with power approximately Δ2\Delta^2/12 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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