[Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

[Fred Ridder]

In the style guides I used at my last two employers (Fortune 500 semiconductor companies), "16-bit" is hyphenated when used as an adjective before words like "register", "bus",  "value", "port", etc.
But when referring to the width of a data path or something similar, the preferred form was the non-hyphenated attributive noun phrase "16 bits" rather than the hyphenated adjective.  For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".

FR

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Subject: [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ????

Working in a document that has both. Usually used as an adjective, as: "16 bit register."

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