noise measure

[tsp]

Can somebody tell me what noise measure exactly means? I know its a
way of measuring performance of multistage amplifiers? How would I
expalin it somebody who has never heard of this?

Thanks,
tspjor

 

[Joerg]

Maybe this would be a start:

http://esl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~swe/iip/nfmeas.pdf

Regards, Joerg.