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Spectre MDL help for "sp ... donoise=yes" analysis

sn4c
sn4c over 5 years ago

Hi,

I am running MMSIM 15.10.766.

mdlref.pdf says that MDL supports sp analysis. I am able to use MDL with sp analysis to extract the S parameters.

I am not sure MDL supports sp analysis with noise analysis, i.e. "sp ... donoise=yes", or how to extract the noise parametes from the simulation results.

A sample netlist is attached at the end of this message. Run a simulation, and a .s2p file will be generated with noise parameters at the end of the file. How do I use MDL to access/obtain the noise parameters (e.g. noise resistance) as shown in the .s2p file?

Thanks.


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// MOSFET sp noise

simulator lang=spectre

// op_1 options rawfmt=nutascii

model nmos1 bsim4 type=n

port1 (10 0) port num=1 r=50 dc=0
c1 (10 1) capacitor c=1
l1 (1 11) inductor l=1
v1 (11 0) vsource dc=1

port2 (20 0) port num=2 r=50 dc=0
c2 (20 2) capacitor c=1
l2 (2 21) inductor l=1
v2 (21 0) vsource dc=1

m1 (2 1 0 0) nmos1 w=5u l=0.12u

sp_1 sp ports=[port1 port2] values=[50e6] donoise=yes oprobe=port2 iprobe=port1 datafmt=touchstone noisedata=twoport file="spnoise2p.s2p"
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