Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N or SNR) Definition

In analog and digital communications, signal-to-noise ratio, often written S/N or SNR, is a
measure of signal strength relative to background noise. The ratio is usually measured in decibels
(dB).
If the incoming signal strength in microvolts is Vs, and the noise level, also in microvolts, is Vn,
then the signal-to-noise ratio, S/N, in decibels is given by the formula
S/N = 20 log10(Vs/Vn)
Signal-to-noise ratio is also called as SNR or S/N, is defined as the ratio of signal power to the
noise power corrupting the signal.
SNR is normally expressed in dB: SNRdB = 10 log10(Ps/Pn).

Noise Figure
The most basic definition of noise figure came into popular use in the 1940s when Harold Friis
[8] defined the noise figure NF of a network to be the ratio of the signal-to-noise power ratio at
the input to the signal-to-noise power ratio at the output.