ADC:
The resolution of an ADC is the range of values that you can map your range of voltages onto. A higher resolution grants a higher accuracy of voltage measuring (or mathematically a decrease in inaccuracy)
ADC Resolution:
The resolution of an ADC system is determined by the number of voltage divisions, where the amount of these divisions is:
Where M is the ADC's resolution in amount of bits
Voltage Resolution:
The Voltage Resolution is related to the digital resolution through:
Dynamic Range:
Another way to characterize our ADC is Dynamic Range:
Fundamentally we are able to define our Least Significant Bit voltage as our to save confusion.
ENOB:
However, as we are no longer only dealing with Ideal Systems, we also have to take into account electrical noise, giving us something called Effective Number of Bits (ENOB):
Its to be noted that which represents our quantisation error and which converts decibels to bits. Another note is that for varying signals in ADCs we take S to be the MEAN voltage, using RMS