stenzer
Advanced Member level 3
Hi,
I'm currently evaluating my measurement hardware by means of its SNR behaviour. The circuit is designed to digitize a DC voltage. For test proposes I'm using a constant DC voltage.
To increase the SNR for low analoge signal levels, I'm performing an averaging. This works as expected for low input signal amplitudes (low SNR) e.g. 100 samples +20dB SNR, 1k samples +30dB SNR and so on.
What I have noticed, there is an "upper" limit. At this point the SNR doesn't increase by increasing the number of averaged samples. By having a look on the histogram of my raw (non-averaged) samples, there is a low number of gaussian distributed pins/frequencies.
In my opinion the SNR can not by increased at this point as the deviation of the data is too low. So I think, a possebility to increase the SNR further would be dithering. Has anyone performed dithering in MATLAb so far? Would white gaussian noise with an amplitude of +-1/2 LSB be sufficient, or are there other distributions with a better performance?
BR
I'm currently evaluating my measurement hardware by means of its SNR behaviour. The circuit is designed to digitize a DC voltage. For test proposes I'm using a constant DC voltage.
To increase the SNR for low analoge signal levels, I'm performing an averaging. This works as expected for low input signal amplitudes (low SNR) e.g. 100 samples +20dB SNR, 1k samples +30dB SNR and so on.
What I have noticed, there is an "upper" limit. At this point the SNR doesn't increase by increasing the number of averaged samples. By having a look on the histogram of my raw (non-averaged) samples, there is a low number of gaussian distributed pins/frequencies.
In my opinion the SNR can not by increased at this point as the deviation of the data is too low. So I think, a possebility to increase the SNR further would be dithering. Has anyone performed dithering in MATLAb so far? Would white gaussian noise with an amplitude of +-1/2 LSB be sufficient, or are there other distributions with a better performance?
BR