RF / Receiver Planning

Modcod Receiver Sensitivity Calculator

Estimate required receive power, occupied bandwidth, and BER performance for common modulation and coding combinations.

Modulation Net data rate

Coding rate RX noise figure dB Target BER Implementation margin dB Filter roll-off α

Required receive level-- dBm Required Eᵦ/N₀-- dB Estimated bandwidth-- MHz Gross coded rate-- Mbps Required C/N-- dB Estimated coding gain-- dB

QPSK estimated BER AWGN planning model

Sensitivity is referred to the receiver input at 290 K. The curve shows estimated pre-FEC-equivalent AWGN performance with the selected code represented as a coding-gain shift.