Quasi-Peak-to-RMS Voltage Conversion

A technique is presented by which the conversion between quasi-peak and rms voltage levels may be made for any noise process for which the relative amplitude probability distribution is known. The technique is not exact, since it requires that the time waveform of the quasi-peak voltage be constant. However, the resulting error seems to be smail for many cases. Several results obtained using the techniques are given and compared with measurements. An analysis is also presented of the effect of the constant quasi-peak voltage requirement on the error.