A/D Practical Aperture Limit

Jerry Avins wrote:

> cincydsp@gmail.com wrote:
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>>   ...    Stupid analog electronics and their parasitics.
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> 
> Welcome to the real world, where all engineering starts and ends.

Na. In the real world, the engineering starts at 7 and ends at 5.

VLV

Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> writes:

> Andor wrote:
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>   ...
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>> Are you saying that A/D converters don't generate a train of dirac
>> impulses for sampling?
>
> No Diracs and -- get ready for this, are you sitting down? -- there
> are no tooth fairies, either. :-)

That's not true! I have an Agilent DG1001 (Dirac Generator) sitting right here on my desk...
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