signal-to-noise
Noun
Meaning
the ratio of signal intensity to noise intensity
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But when testing receiver sensitivity, a low signal level is required to see how the receiver behaves under low signal-to-noise conditions.
Digital signals When a measurement is digitized, the number of bits used to represent the measurement determines the maximum possible signal-to-noise ratio.
AM is a linear modulation method, so a given demodulated signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) requires an equally high received RF SNR.
As the timing resolution improves, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the image will improve, requiring fewer events to achieve the same image quality.
At high gains (> 30), this uncertainty has the same effect on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as halving the quantum efficiency (QE) with respect to operation with a gain of unity.
FM improvement factor is the quotient obtained by dividing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the output of an FM receiver by the carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) at the input of the receiver.