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Description Receivers, like most (sub)systems, are specified at the level of their interface, describing their behavior and performance in terms of signals going in and coming out of its terminals.
Typical performance specification parameters include:
- Sensitivity (what level is the weakest signal that you can receive reliably)
- Interferer robustness, including (how well can you suppress strong interfering signals while reliably receiving your wanted signal)
- Blocking robustness (how well can you suppress strong single signals)
- Desensitization (how much sensitivity do you loose in the presence of strong blockers)
- Selectivity (how much can you suppress signals in adjacent/alternate channels)
- Multi-tone interferer rejection (how well can you avoid non-linear distortion components resulting from multiple interferers)
- Spurious emissions
- Power dissipation
- Frequency (including tuning range)
- Bandwidth
- Modulation
- … (many more)