[Premium-Rx] RE: The new R&S EM510 Direct-Sampling HF Receiver

[Alberto di Bene]

 > That is astounding - a 24-bit ADC clocked at 64 or 66 MHz, and
 > sampling a 3 to 10 MHz band slice!
 >
 > In a 24-bit ADC with ENOB = 20 (for example),  the theoretical margin
 > between the noise floor and the "all 1's" point is 120 dB.

That's not only astounding, but almost pretty incredible... the state of the art for RF ADCs seems to be the Linear 
Technology LTC2208 16 bit 130 MSPS ADC....
And ENOB = 20 out of 24 is reached, as far as I know, only by low frequency sigma-delta codecs, like the AK5394A by Akamai.

Is that information somehow confirmed by R&S technical papers ? Otherwise it is difficult to believe it...

73  Alberto  I2PHD