Understanding Oscilloscopes - ENOB

This video provides a short technical introduction to ENOB, or effective number of bits, and how ENOB is used to evaluate the performance of digital storage oscilloscopes

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Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
00:13 Suggested Viewing
00:32 About analog to digital converters (ADC)
01:28 Quantization levels and vertical resolution
02:16 Input signal scaling and vertical resolution
03:10 Effective number of bits (ENOB)
04:28 What determines ENOB?
05:03 ADC contribution to ENOB
05:45 Other contributions to ENOB
06:40 Calculating ENOB
07:27 Reporting / plotting ENOB values
08:12 Example ENOB curves
08:45 Summary