[Elecraft] Different focus

[Bill Coleman]

> On Jan 24, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> 
>> (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.

Well, that works up to 23-bits! (FP numbers have a 23-bit mantissa)

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