Data Acquisition System for In Situ Monitoring of Chemoelectrical Potential in Living Plant Fuel Cells

Table 1

Characteristics of 8-bit, 12-bit, and 16-bit A/D converter.

Term	8-bit	12-bit	16-bit
Most significant bit (MSB) value	128	2048	32768
Least significant bit (LSB) value	1	1	1
Number of possible values	256	4096	65536
MSB weight
LSB weight	1/256	1/4096	1/65536
Resolution, (mv/bit), for = 10 V	39.0625	2.4414	0.1526
Absolute quantization error (mV)	±19.5313	±1.2207	±0.0763