working with adc

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nawraj

Joined Jun 24, 2009
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hi everyone,
need some clarification here:)
if I m working with 12 bit adc....having sampling rate(50ksps).....so in 60 sec I m suppose to get (50*1000*60*12) =36000000 bits(zeroes or ones)
Is it true?
plz help me with it!
thanxs;
regards
 

AlexR

Joined Jan 16, 2008
732
Maybe yes, maybe no. it all depends how you process the data.

If you process it a 12 bit words then yes, you will end up with 36000000 bits of data but you may find it easier to to process each sample as a 2 byte word (16 bits). This would be the case if you were using a high level language to further process the captured data. In that case 60 seconds of data would be 5.7Mbytes or 48000000 bits.
 
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