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  • ADC resolution increase, I bet few knew about these two facts.

    It is generally known that adding white noise signal gives 1/2 bit resolution each time you double the number of samples.
    Another way to state this is that n samples reduce the noise N by the square root of the number of samples

    But who knew that a simple low-pass IIR filter y_t = (n - 1) y_{t-1} + x_t improves that by a factor ?
    \frac{N}{\sqrt{2n-1}}
    From this article: https://www.electronicdesign.com/tec...duce-adc-noise

    But it can get even better, who knew that adding triangle noise gives you +1 bit improvement each time you double the number of samples?


    From this application note by ST https://www.st.com/resource/en/appli...lectronics.pdf

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  • #2
    Yep, adding dither is pretty standard in audio engineering.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Olly View Post
      Yep, adding dither is pretty standard in audio engineering.
      Most of us know about the white noise dither, so this post is about better options that are less known.

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