W. R. Bennett
1904 – 1983
Bell Labs; derived the quantization-noise law behind ENOB.
A Bell Labs communications engineer, William R. Bennett produced the 1948 analysis of quantization noise in pulse-code modulation — the 6.02N + 1.76 dB law that defines the resolution limit of every analog-to-digital converter.
The ADC and ENOB tools here compute Bennett's line, published the same year as Shannon's information theory and the transistor.
Portrait: a stylized blueprint-line rendering, not a photograph.
Contributions in the toolbox
- 1948
Quantization noise analysis — the 6.02N + 1.76 dB line.
→ ADC Resolution - 1948
Quantization noise law — the forward direction.
→ SNR ⇄ ENOB