jaf@mit-eddie.UUCP (Joe Frisbie) (07/29/85)
| Floating point DAC's would be very useful. One of the biggest
pains in DSP with integers is precision. Floats would let you keep
the same precision independent of signal amplitude. I don't even think
they're that hard to make. Use a regular DAC for the mantissa and
a log DAC for the exponent and run the outputs through an analog multiplier.
16 bits isn't enough if you want to do any processing at all.
All serial digital transmission standards call for passing 24 bits around
(except for CD's maybe). 16 bits is only ~90db which you can hear.
Joe