Receiver sensitivity metric converter

This little converter transforms a selected specification of sensitivity of a linear receiver into a number of common expressions of receiver sensitivity.

Receiver effective noise bandwidth (ENB) is the bandwidth of an idealised pass band that has in-band gain equal to the actual gain at 1kHz equivalent, and the total noise power passed is the same as the actual filter. It is unlikely to be the same as the quoted filter bandwidth determined from the -6dB points, and is likely to be around 20% or 1dB lower. Errors in the ENB will affect all "noise" metrics calculated from "sensitivity" measures, and all "sensitivity" metrics calculated from "noise" measures. For more information see Measuring receiver bandwidth.

This calculator assumes that the signal distortion component of noise+distortion is zero.

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