The author proposes to use spectral averaging techniques to measure the harmonic distortion and noise floor of an analog/digital (A/D) digitizing subsystem. The noise floor of an ideal B-bit A/D converter is derived in closed form. It is shown that this noise floor is a function of the A/D resolution B, the record length N, and the equivalent noise bandwidth EB of the window function used in the discrete-Fourier-transform (DFT) computation. For an example, the noise floor is given for the case in which the magnitude square of the spectrum is averaged. Both experimental and simulation results are presented and it is shown that they are in good agreement with the theoretical results
Published in:
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:37
,
Issue:
4
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Date of Publication:
Dec 1988
- Page(s):
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525
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528
- ISSN :
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0018-9456
- INSPEC Accession Number:
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3332150
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1109/19.9805
- Product Type:
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
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Dec 1988
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IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society