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I'm just speculating, but I don't see why you can't quantize the output electrically. I guess I'm suggesting a mixed mode system, where an electronic cpu sends
by wwarner 8y ago
I'm just speculating, but I don't see why you can't quantize the output electrically. I guess I'm suggesting a mixed mode system, where an electronic cpu sends an array of values to an optical system that performs a calculation and returns a result electronically.
- opwieurposiu 8y agoSure you can quantize the output but that is not going to help your accuracy. Today's Ghz CPU is 64bit, today's Ghz ADCs are 8 to 16bits. This gets you ~3 to ~5 decimal sig figs for analog and ~15.9 decimal sig figs for 64bit floating point. That's assuming your analog side is perfect, which is unlikely to say the least. http://www.ti.com/data-converters/adc-circuit/high-speed/rf-sampling.html http://www.ti.com/data-converters/adc-circuit/high-speed/rf-... Also note the fast ones require 1+ watts per channel and cost $700+ each. Not cheap in power or in money.