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AWGN, Input Signal, SNR

Started by phasenoise01 September 12, 2003
Hi,
I would be grateful for any helpful comments on this.
I am a beginner at using the Comms blockset in Simulink, and have
tried just putting a signal through DQPSK modem system, with just
AWGN in between.
When I stick a BER detector at the end, the result seems to depend on
the input power that I feed into the AWGN block (higher BER for
higher input signal) , despite keeping the SNR the same value. When I
look at the scatter diagram, the noise is understandably increased,
but the signal values remain the same (magnitude = 1 on scatter
diagram).
Can any help to explain this?

Thanks,
Chris