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Convert Voltage to dBm and dBm to Voltage (peak-peak and RMS)


dBm is power referenced to 1mW, where Rref is the system impedance


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by substitution


and again by substitution


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Since most systems, including the Bode 100 are 50Ohms, this can be reduced to,


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And we can also solve for Vrms or Vpp from dBm


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