Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 23:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
> In article <6tk3em$can$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
> hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote:
> > With what, 3 dB of noise margin? (I think the quantization noise
> > floor is -3.32 dB per bit.)
>
> It must be more than that, or else have another variable; 16-bit CD
> players are routinely speced at 90 dB.
> --
> Shields, CrossLink.
>
You're right; I was off by a factor of 2 (we're talking quantized
voltages, not power) *AND* I had goofed up my logarithms; it's
-6.02 dB per bit; this gives a quantization noise floor of -96.3 dB
for 16-bit linear sampling.
-hpa
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