Quantizers (cont’d)

Linear or Uniform Quantizer

• Well Capacity sets upper limit to number of bits:

  
  
  100,000 e- =>
  100,000 levels 16 digital bits

Nonlinear ? -Quantizer

• Well Capacity sets upper limit to number of bits:

  
  
  100,000 e- =>
  316 levels8 digital bits

Note: This does not take into account noise

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