[sdiy] Re: Information Content of Signals

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Czech Martin" <Martin.Czech at micronas.com>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Re: Information Content of Signals
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 09:53:04 +0200

> I do not know much of information theory, aside from
> practical things like hamming code, ECC and the like.

Do read the Shannon paper, it will make you look just a little bit differently
at those things.

> Just one thing: if audio is the subject, then we are close
> to DC. Circuits show 1/f noise in the audio band,
> so the interesting noise of some (CMOS) circuits
> is certainly not white. For some circuits 1/f noise
> provides nearly all the noise power.

Exactly what I was hinting at. I must admitt that I have forgot about the
mechanics behind 1/f noise, got to read up on it.

Cheers,
Magnus