On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 14:15:52 -0500, "Tim Williams"
wrote:
"John Larkin" wrote in message
.. .
More detail for the lurkers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_coding
It's a 10 bit unary ADC, and can be used as such. I've done it before.
Tim
Classic flash ADCs used 2^n comparators and a resistor string in the
front end. The resulting (say, 256 bit) thermomometer code was then
mapped into binary. I think somebody did that at 10 bits, 1024
comparators.
Nowadays people tend to do cleverer things.
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