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I.2.b TV Tuner High Performance Specifications<br />

I.2.b.i Low noise<br />

As explained in APPENDIX A, noise is a random fluctuation of energy which can be<br />

found in all electronic circuits. In the case of an RF receiver, a high noise level results in an<br />

un<strong>de</strong>sirable signal that masks or <strong>de</strong>gra<strong>de</strong>s the useful signal, as illustrated on Figure 19 by a<br />

noisy sine wave.<br />

Figure 19. Noise ad<strong>de</strong>d to a sine signal<br />

A noisy reception chain makes the wanted signal be <strong>de</strong>gra<strong>de</strong>d. Hence, it becomes more<br />

difficult to finally <strong>de</strong>modulate in good conditions and the number of errors may increase. To<br />

<strong>de</strong>crease <strong>de</strong>modulation errors, noise has to be as low as possible compared to the wanted<br />

signal. This is expressed by a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that should be high enough at the<br />

input of the <strong>de</strong>modulator. This is one of the specifications for the TV tuner. On Figure 20 are<br />

shown two 16QAM constellations drawn for two different SNR. It clearly shows that noise<br />

random fluctuations on the <strong>de</strong>sired signal can lead to <strong>de</strong>cision errors on bit values.<br />

Figure 20. 16QAM constellations for two different SNR<br />

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