[Elecraft] Different focus

[Wayne Burdick]

Yes. Plenty of margin for the foreseeable future :)

Wayne


> On Jan 25, 2021, at 5:15 AM, Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:
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>> On Jan 24, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
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>>> (Or did we have some other definition of “higher-performance”?)
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>> Yes: More bits than 16, more monotonicity in the LSBs, general improvement in SFDR, or lower internal noise.
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>> Adding more ADC bits does not require more DSP horsepower. The DSP is 32 bit floating point.
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> Well, that works up to 23-bits! (FP numbers have a 23-bit mantissa)
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> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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