TDFD-based measurement of analog-to-digital converter nonlinearity

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 832-840

  Rathmell, James ^a,c,d,e,f   Scott, Jonathan ^a,b,c,e,f   Parker, Anthony ^b,c,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Nucleus Group   (Australia)

^e IEEE   (Australia)

^f IREE ^*  (United States)

^g Hewlett Packard Santa Rosa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERMODULATION MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL THEORY; SPECIFICATIONS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER NONLINEARITY; TONE; TOTAL DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY DISTORTION TEST;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 0031245002     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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