Shannon limit on power efficiency – demystified

The Shannon power efficiency limit is the limit of a band-limited system irrespective of modulation or coding scheme. It informs us the minimum required energy per bit required at the transmitter for reliable communication. It is also called unconstrained Shannon power efficiency Limit. If we select a particular modulation scheme or an encoding scheme, we … Read more

Performance comparison of digital modulation techniques — BER trade-offs at a glance

Digital Modulations 101 — 5 lessons (same on every page in this path) 1. BPSK → 2. QPSK → 3. M-PSK sim (you are here) → 4. QAM sim → 5. EVM Tools: BER vs Eb/N0 · EVM → SNR · Eb/N0 ↔ SNR Side reading for Digital Modulations 101. Use this comparison after QPSK … Read more

Shannon channel capacity demystified — AWGN formula, SNR, and the −1.6 dB limit

Information theory path: BPSK AWGN → Shannon capacity → Shannon power-efficiency limit → Capacity calculator In one sentence: Shannon capacity is the highest rate (bits per channel use, or bits per second for a continuous-time bandlimited AWGN channel) at which information can be sent with arbitrarily small error probability.  Shannon theorem dictates the maximum … Read more