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- From: mpark@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Park)
- Subject: Re: FALCON
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.183012.12747@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Aug24.073643.14690@rose.com> <27119@life.ai.mit.edu> <H.lV7x_TlNb62@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:30:12 GMT
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- In article <H.lV7x_TlNb62@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca ( John Henders ) writes:
- >In <27119@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:
- ...
- >> High-resolution D/A converters are
- >>very sensitive.
- >
- > ( I presume you meant expensive )
-
- Maybe he did mean sensitive, at least in the sense of being susceptible
- to noise. If we assume the D/A outputs 0 to 5V, 5V/65536 = 76 _micro_volts;
- I'm not sure, but I'd think great care in construction and shielding
- would be necessary to maintain those last few bits of precision...
- (not saying anything one way or th'other in re Falcon)
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