Modulation constellation diagram

IQ
In-phase and Quadrature
BPSK
Binary Phase Shift Keying
QPSK
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
QAM
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

Representation of a digital signal modulated by quadrature amplitude Q and phase-shift I

Modulation bits per symbol

Modulation Bits per symbol
BPSK 1
QPSK 2
8 PSK 3
16 QAM 4
32 QAM 5
64 QAM 6
128 QAM 7
256 QAM 8
512 QAM 9
1024 QAM 10
2048 QAM 11
4096 QAM 12

Maximun theorical throughput

Constellation diagrams

BPSK

QPSK

16QAM

64QAM

256QAM