In practice however the noise floor will always be higher than this due to electronic noise.
Adc noise floor measurement.
Experiment setup details.
Since the noise is approximately gaussian.
For that we terminated the input of adc and captured the digital samples using fpga.
For example the noise floor of a 16 bit measurement system can never be better than 96db and for a 24 bit system the lower limit is limited to 144 db.
We are having some doubts in the calculation.
Calculate the normalized noise floor level in 1hz bandwidth by subtracting 10 log f sample 2 where f sample is given in units of hz.
Adisimadc the fft output can be used like an analog spectrum analyzer to measure the amplitude of the.
To measure the amount of input referred noise the input of the adc is either grounded or connected to a heavily decoupled voltage source and a large number of output samples are collected and plotted as a histogram referred to as a grounded input histogram if the input is nominally at zero volts.
Fft output for an ideal 12 bit adc input 2 111mhz f s 82msps average of 5 ffts m 8192 data generated from.
Calculate the input noise of the converter which is the theoretical thermal noise floor limit ktb 174dbm at room temperature.
Two s complement enabled in adc.
Determine the thermal quantization noise floor level in dbm either from the component vendor s data sheet or by measurement for a small signal input level on the order of 35dbfs.
Fft noise floor 110db rms quantization noise level data generated using adisimadc figure 2.
This is split into 2 experiments.