Is a 1-lsb white noise amplitude critical in ADC input?

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Questions about ADCs

In a MCU built-in A/D converter, may I get an extra-bit resolution using a 4x oversampling frequency, and averaging the four intermediate results supposing there's over 1-lsb white noise at the A/D input ? Is this noise amplitude critical somehow?

Should I rather think of using an external converter?

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Re: Questions about ADCs

You should obtain 1-bit extra resolution at 4x oversampling and filtering.
The general rule is 1/2LSB at 2x oversampling.
 

Re: Questions about ADCs

For the assumption of white quantization noise to be constant over the band of interest. If not there will be no benefit!
 

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