Bit Error Ratio: What Is It? What Does It Mean?

Xilinx

Austin Lesea

White Paper

May 2008

Bit Error Ratio (BER) is used to measure the performance of a communications link. This white paper discusses the conditions necessary to make useful BER measurements, as well as the limitations of this metric.

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