On 28 Jun 07, at 18:37 , Tim Hughes wrote:
> it is no mean feat to make an A/D coverter with an even vaguely
> noise free
> resolution of 22bits at data rates of many Mega Hertz and with low
> power consumption. I doubt very
> much the converter mentioned, can actually do a low noise 22bit
> conversion !
Let alone be monotonic at the LSB. I'll bet it uses stochastic noise
injection anyway, so they probably don't care if the last two or
three bits bounce around like a yo-yo.
BTW: a true 22 bit converter should resolve 4 million levels. The
human eye can detect about 150 brightness levels, as I recall. (But
150 cubed -- for R, G, and B -- is almost 4 million, so maybe there's
some method to the madness...)
Some of this is undoubtedly sophisticated engineering, but I still
believe some of it is some guy in a suit telling the engineers,
"Stick more bits in it -- we've already printed the boxes!"
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