Yes. Plenty of margin for the foreseeable future :)

Wayne


> On Jan 25, 2021, at 5:15 AM, Bill Coleman <aa...@arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> (Or did we have some other definition of “higher-performance”?)
>> 
>> Yes: More bits than 16, more monotonicity in the LSBs, general improvement 
>> in SFDR, or lower internal noise.
>> 
>> Adding more ADC bits does not require more DSP horsepower. The DSP is 32 bit 
>> floating point.
> 
> Well, that works up to 23-bits! (FP numbers have a 23-bit mantissa)
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa...@arrl.net
> Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> 

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