Hi all,
I am testing a 10 bit ADC of 16GHz sampling rate.
The ideal SNR for ADC = 6.02(N) + 1.76 and for 10 bits it would give 61.96dB.
Due to fft, processing gain pushes down the noise floor by 10log(M/2) where M is the number of samples, and for 4096 samples, processing gain is 33.1.
So following the image attached, the noise floor must be SNR + Processing gain = 61.98+33.1 = 95 db but through simulations, it is not so. The noise floor comes around 102db as shown in the image.
Can anyone explain why is this so ?