Tips & Tricks

Theoretical BER using Matlab – BERTOOL

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When simulating digital modulations in Matlab, it is useful to verify the simulated BER performance curves against theoretical BER curves.Matlab has an inbuilt visualization tool, ‘BERTOOL’, for this purpose. Matlab’s BERTOOL supports 6 types of digital modulations over 3 types of channel for plotting theoretical BER. The six supported modulations are PSK,DPSK,OQPSK,PAM,QAM,FSK and the three … Read more

Tips & Tricks : Indexing in Matlab

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Let’s review indexing techniques in Matlab: Indexing one dimensional array, two dimensional array, logical indexing, reversiong a vector – are covered. Consider a sample vector in Matlab. Index with single value Index with range of values Select a range of elements using ‘:’ operator. Example: Select elements with index ranging from 1 to 5. Making … Read more

FFT and Spectral Leakage

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Spectral leakage due to FFT is caused by: mismatch between desired tone and chosen frequency resolution, time limiting an observation. Understand the concept using hands-on examples. Limits of frequency domain studies Frequency Transform is used to study a signal’s frequency domain characteristics. When using FFT to study the frequency domain characteristics of a signal, there … Read more