Communications Toolbox

The BERTool Environment

This section gives an overview of the components of BERTool and how they interact with each other.

Components of BERTool

BERTool includes these components:

• A data viewer pane at the top. It is initially empty.

  

  After you instruct BERTool to generate one or more BER data sets, they appear in the data viewer. An example that shows how data sets look in the data viewer is in Example: Using a MATLAB Simulation with BERTool.

• A set of tabbed panels on the bottom. Labeled Theoretical, Semianalytic, and Monte Carlo, the panels correspond to the different methods by which BERTool can generate BER data.

  

  To learn more about each of the methods, see

  • Computing Theoretical BERs

  • Using the Semianalytic Technique to Compute BERs

  • Running MATLAB Simulations or Running Simulink Simulations

• A separate BER Figure window, which displays some or all of the BER data sets that are listed in the data viewer. BERTool opens the BER Figure window after it has at least one data set to display, so you do not see the BER Figure window when you first open BERTool. For an example of how the BER Figure window looks, see Example: Using the Theoretical Panel in BERTool.

Opening BERTool

Interaction Among BERTool Components

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