DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BITS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITIZERS

Authors
SIMOES JB LOUREIRO CFM LANDECK J CORREIA CMBA
Citation
Jb. Simoes et al., DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVE NUMBER OF BITS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITIZERS, IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 44(3), 1997, pp. 407-410
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on nuclear science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189499
Volume
44
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Part
1
Pages
407 - 410
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9499(1997)44:3<407:DTENOB>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
A new testing method has been used to evaluate the dynamic performance of several digitizing systems used in nuclear physics experiments. Th is method is useful for characterizing high resolution analog to digit al converters when a pure enough signal source is not available. The s ignal to noise ratio of the digitizer, excluding the harmonic componen ts from the noise, is the computed parameter. The use of this method t o estimate jitter errors is also studied.