Figure 3aA typical uncalibrated converter curve deviates from the ideal. However, you can approximate the ideal by calibrating the endpoints (b), a simple method which unfortunately has a larger peak error, or by calibrating the best-fit line (c), which yields the lowest RMS error.

a) 9807001-FIG 3A.gif (3892 bytes)    b)  9807001-FIG 3B.gif (3897 bytes)

c) 9807001-FIG 3C.gif (3624 bytes)