New blog post: 5G NR PBCH. In this post I explain how to decode the Physical Broadcast Channel in 5G. This contains the Master Information Block, which is the first piece of data that a phone decodes after synchronizing to a cell. It contains basic configuration about the cell.
ALT A waterfall plot in Inspectrum. It shows a synchronization signals / PBCH block in the waterfall. The different signals in this block are boxed with annotations. A tooltip shows all the contents of the master information block in the PBCH.