BER Measurement.

Hello everybody,

As a general thought, I am interested in counting the Bit Error Rate of an LED communication-based implementation. what would be the best proposal to do this.

I thought of simply switching on and off the LED using already randomly generated and stored long sequence of bits, and on the receiver side store the received bits and compare the both files. and Maybe with some training or SYC header.

I would appreciate any comments and suggestions regarding this issue.

Regards
S.

No need. Your idea sounds quite reasonable. But it would be good to be able to control or at least measure the noise amplitude to estimate S/N. Otherwise BER is pretty anecdotal.

aarg:
No need. Your idea sounds quite reasonable. But it would be good to be able to control or at least measure the noise amplitude to estimate S/N. Otherwise BER is pretty anecdotal.

Thank you aarg for you prompt response. Actually I have the SNR, my measured signal is in time domain and applying numerically the FFT, I am able to estimate S/N Ratio in order to calculate the BER. I needed a real test confirming the calculations I've made, which I assume is still an estimated results.

Regards
S.