Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bits_per_symbol and samples_per_symbol

[Tom Rondeau]

udadidd wrote:
> Hi
> All these days i thought both are the same! But they are not. Does any one
> have any idea what is the difference between both of them?
>
> Thanks
> Udaya

A symbol is a complex signal representing 1 or more bits (generally). A 
symbol is represented by a number of samples, which can be 1 or more 
samples per symbol. If you're symbol represents 1 bit (like in BPSK), 
you have 1 bit per symbol, but you might have more samples per symbol to 
represent that symbol.

Tom