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- From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
- Subject: Re: "1-bit DAC"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.235144.15771@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <C0F8Hp.84n@ve7frg.ampr.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 23:51:44 GMT
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- In article <C0F8Hp.84n@ve7frg.ampr.org>, doug@ve7frg.ampr.org (Doug Collinge - VE7GNU) writes:
- > If my CD with a "1 bit DAC" and the aid of "8 times oversampling"
- > can produce audio as good as an older CD with no "oversampling" and
- > a 16-bit DAC then can my circuit with an 8-bit DAC be replaced
- > with a 1-bit DAC and 4-times oversampling?
- >
- > How? What's the math behind this concept anyway?
-
- As far as I know the basic principal in over-sampling is to convert the digital
- values into a PWM (Pulse Width Modulated) signal.
-
- For 4-times oversampling you take 2 bits of data and generate a signal inside
- the sample period to give the same average value as direct conversion e.g.:
-
- 0V -> 00(base 2) -> 0V 0V 0V 0V = 0/4 = 0V
- 1 01 -> 0 0 0 4 = 4/4 = 1
- 2 10 -> 0 0 4 4 = 8/4 = 2
- 3 11 -> 0 4 4 4 = 12/4 = 3
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- four samples of equal length
-
- To get the 16bit value "0000 0000 0000 0010" from a 14bit DAC, you do two samples
- at "0000 0000 0000 00" and two at "0000 0000 0000 01" at four times the 16bit
- data rate. However as there is only one transition required it is not completely
- necessary that the 14bit DAC is four times faster (but something has to work out
- the transition time at that bandwidth).
-
- I'm not sure what scheme the "1 bit DAC" actually uses, but the implication is
- that you would need 256 times over-sampling for 8bits.
-
- Kev.
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