[Elecraft] Different focus

[Wayne Burdick]

> On Jan 24, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> But wouldn’t a higher performance A/D converter also mean you’d have to bring forth more DSP computing power? 
> 
> Is there that much spare DSP computing power in the K4? Could you double the sample rate and still handle all the bits?
> 
> (Or did we have some other definition of “higher-performance”?)

Yes: More bits than 16, more monotonicity in the LSBs, general improvement in SFDR, or lower internal noise.

Adding more ADC bits does not require more DSP horsepower. The DSP is 32 bit floating point.

Wayne
N6KR