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Simulating Phase noise at specific points

lahsivece
lahsivece over 11 years ago

Hi All ,

 I am trying to simualte phase noise of a circuit at some specific points. I am using pss+pnoise(add specific points ). I can work with 10 poinst but I need to do it for 500 points (500 points are due to measured data)

Is there an easy way to do it ? (Like just read a file with all the  frequency point defined in it )

Thanks & Regards

Vishal

 

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 11 years ago

    Vishal,

    Provided that you can format an ASCII file the way you want, you can create a file called (say) specificPoints.scs :

    parameters specificPoints=[10 15 20 150 1k 1.2k 10k 15k 27k 123k 549k 1.2M]

    or if you want to spread it over multiple lines:

    parameters specificPoints=[ \
    10 \
    15 \
    20 \
    150 \
    1k \
    1.2k \
    10k \
    15k \
    27k \
    123k \
    549k \
    1.2M \
    ]

    Then reference this file via Setup->Model Libraries.

    Now in the pnoise analysis (or indeed any other analysis where you want to have specific points defined in a file), tell it to use "Single-Point" rather than a sweep and pick one of the points in the file as the frequency.

    Then rather than filling in the "Add Specific Points" checkbox and field, go to the Options form for pnoise, and go to the bottom where it says additionalParams. Then fill in:

    values=specificPoints

    (i.e. refer to whatever you called the parameter in the include file).

    That's it - I tried this and it works well...

        pnoise: freq = 15 Hz       (9.09 %), step = 5 Hz         (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 20 Hz       (18.2 %), step = 5 Hz         (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 150 Hz      (27.3 %), step = 130 Hz       (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 1 kHz       (36.4 %), step = 850 Hz       (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 1.2 kHz     (45.5 %), step = 200 Hz       (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 10 kHz      (54.5 %), step = 8.8 kHz      (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 15 kHz      (63.6 %), step = 5 kHz        (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 27 kHz      (72.7 %), step = 12 kHz       (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 123 kHz     (81.8 %), step = 96 kHz       (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 549 kHz     (90.9 %), step = 426 kHz      (9.09 %)
        pnoise: freq = 1.2 MHz      (100 %), step = 651 kHz      (9.09 %)

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • lahsivece
    lahsivece over 11 years ago

    Hi Andrew ,

    Thanks for the help. This works .

     

    Regards

    Vishal

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