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BER Measurements

Modern Design Engineers are being asked to deliver wireless receivers with greater dynamic range, and broader Bandwidths. These constraints require the use of high quality instruments to model real world signal impairments and provide information about BER The UFX Eb/No, Precision SNR generator is specifically designed for testing wireless receiver BER (bit error rate). A standard test methodology is to provide a graph of SNR (Eb/No) vs. BER. This graph is often referred to as a waterfall diagram, where the X-axis is signal to noise, usually Eb/No, or C/N, and the Y-axis is Bit error rate. These diagrams are used to compare the theoretical dynamic range for a given modulation scheme, to real world measured values. For specific models, and general specifications please follow link to analog noise instruments, and select UFX Eb/No. Although the UFX Eb/No series is specifically designed for BER applications, other instruments can be used for this purpose (see the product links). For additional information about this topic please contact Noisecom.