What Good Is 17.24 Bits of Flicker-Free Res?

by Keith Odland EE Times, 23 May 2005 We all understand that 2 raised to the power of 24 is a very large number -- 16,777,216, to be exact. But when we talk about data converters and their effective resolution, it is sometimes easy to get mixed up. Think about it: One part in 16 million is a highly granular measurement. What we find in reality is that without significant oversampling and a random distribution of noise, 24-bit resolution is difficult to achieve. Read the article