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Bit Error Rate (BER)

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Estimate coherent BPSK or QPSK bit error rate in additive white Gaussian noise from Eb/N0. This is a baseline digital-link result before coding, fading, interference, or implementation losses.

dB

Bit error rate

3.872e-6

Coherent AWGN detection

Symbol error rate

3.872e-6

1 bits per symbol

Eb/N0 linear

10.000

Power ratio

Modulation

BPSK

1 bits per symbol

Expected spacing

1 / 258,257

bits per expected error

Error probability falls quickly as Eb/N0 rises

The curve shows how bit errors collapse as energy per bit rises; the constellation sketch shows the noise spread that must stay away from the decision boundary.

Bit error probability vs Eb/N0

log scale, lower is better

Current Eb/N0

10.00 dB

Bit error rate

3.87e-6

Decision space

1 bits per symbol

01cloud overlap at low Eb/N0 means likely errors
Noise cloud radius

shrinks as Eb/N0 rises

Error mechanism

noise crosses a decision boundary

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