What is the advantage of ADC averaging in the MAX11300?

The MAX11300 allows for the averaging of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 ADC samples from each ADC-configured port to improve noise performance. The main reason to have the averaging inside PIXI technology is to remove the overhead from the microcontroller to read multiple samples and then calculate the average; with PIXI technology the microcontroller only needs to read one single value that is already averaged, no extra processing power or overhead-communication is required.