Minimum Detectable Signal defines the baseline receiver sensitivity threshold where the target incoming signal energy matches cleanly above the combined limits of integrated thermal noise and internal amplifier distortion stages.
Receiver link budget boundaries combine absolute thermal constraints with hardware noise figure degradation coefficients linearly:
Where -174 dBm/Hz defines the universal flat thermal noise power density limit across a localized 1Hz bandwidth segment matching standard operational temperatures around 290 Kelvin.
Input Parameters
Channel Bandwidth: 10.00 MHz
Noise Figure (NF): 3.50 dB
Determined Sensitivity Threshold
Calculated Receiver MDS: -100.50 dBm
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