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Spreading Factor or Processing Gain

Spreading factor is the ratio of chip rate to bit rate in CDMA systems, indicating the number of chips per data bit. In UMTS, spreading factors range from 4 to 512. A higher spreading factor provides more processing gain and a better signal-to-noise ratio, but results in a lower data rate, while a lower spreading factor increases the data rate at the cost of processing gain and SNR.

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Spreading Factor or Processing Gain

Spreading factor is the ratio of chip rate to bit rate in CDMA systems, indicating the number of chips per data bit. In UMTS, spreading factors range from 4 to 512. A higher spreading factor provides more processing gain and a better signal-to-noise ratio, but results in a lower data rate, while a lower spreading factor increases the data rate at the cost of processing gain and SNR.

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Spreading Factor (SF) or Processing Gain

Spreading factor (SF) is the ratio of chip rate to bit rate OR the ratio of the chips to baseband
information rate. As after spreading, A single bit of the user data is called chip.
Spreading factor is the concept of CDMA used in UMTS. Spreading factors vary from 4 to
512 in FDD UMTS.
Spreading factor in dB indicates the processing gain as in a spread spectrum system, the
processing gain is the ratio of the spread (or RF) bandwidth to the unspread (or baseband)
bandwidth. It is the ratio of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a processed signal to the SNR
of the unprocessed signal. The lower the spreading factor, the higher the data rate.

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