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PSS simulation for VCO

yefJ
yefJ over 6 years ago

Hello , i have found that my VCO oscilates 13.45GHZ by converting period to frequency from the transient plot bellow f=1/T,

i  tried to perform the PSS and PNOISE as following:

PSS: 

tbstat=30.48nsecnsec (the transient of the signal,from the plot bellow the steady state starts after 30.48ns ,tbstat help definition is shown bellow bellow)

Beat frequency=13.45GHZ(its the high common input frequency, from my transient response i calculated the oscilation frequency by f=1/T)

PNOISE:

Relative frequency: the help shown bellow says we should use 2 because we have diodes in it(so i am not sure, my diodes are used as a varactor)

 frequency range: i thought to specify the range from zero till the frequency of the oscillation i got fro the transient plot and f=1/T.

The final ADEL shown bellow.

When i tried to run the PSS first ,it gave me an error shown in the end.

Why it gave me an error? my VCO is oscillating fine  as you can see in the transient plots bellow.

a step by step of what was done shown  is bellow. 

Thanks


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pss: time = 30.08 ns (97.5 %), step = 2.974 ps (9.64 m%)

Error found by spectre at time = 30.8517 ns during periodic steady state analysis `pss'.
ERROR (SPCRTRF-15050): V(out_p,out_n) is too small to reliably detect the period of the oscillator.Perhaps nodes with insignificant signal levels were chosen, or perhaps the oscillator was never properly started.

Analysis `pss' was terminated prematurely due to an error.
modelParameter: writing model parameter values to rawfile.

Opening the PSF file ../psf/modelParameter.info ...
element: writing instance parameter values to rawfile.

Opening the PSF file ../psf/element.info ...
outputParameter: writing output parameter values to rawfile.

Opening the PSF file ../psf/outputParameter.info ...
designParamVals: writing netlist parameters to rawfile.

Opening the PSFASCII file ../psf/designParamVals.info ...
primitives: writing primitives to rawfile.

Opening the PSFASCII file ../psf/primitives.info.primitives ...
subckts: writing subcircuits to rawfile.

Opening the PSFASCII file ../psf/subckts.info.subckts ...

Aggregate audit (9:14:04 PM, Fri Jan 11, 2019):
Time used: CPU = 1.39 s, elapsed = 1.53 s, util. = 91.1%.
Time spent in licensing: elapsed = 31.2 ms.
Peak memory used = 58.1 Mbytes.
Simulation started at: 9:14:02 PM, Fri Jan 11, 2019, ended at: 9:14:04 PM, Fri Jan 11, 2019, with elapsed time (wall clock): 1.53 s.
spectre completes with 1 error, 5 warnings, and 4 notices.

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  • Tawna
    Tawna over 6 years ago

    Hi yefj,

    There are examples of how to setup an oscillator - both ring (strongly_nonlinear) and sinusoidal (linear) in the RF_Doc_Database

    ​database located in <SPECTRE17.1 hierarchy>/tools.lnx86/spectre/examples/SpectreRF_workshop/RF_Doc_Database.tar.gz

    And I believe the instructions are located here: <SPECTRE17.1>/doc/spectreRFexplorerWorkshop/spectreRFexplorerWorkshop.pdf

    The best part is...it explains the "why" about how set up the analysis.   Great step-by-step tutorials.    Also see:  Article 2046330 SpectreRF AppNotes and Tutorials - One of Our Best Kept Secrets! on https://support.cadence.com .

    Best regards,

    Tawna

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  • Tawna
    Tawna over 6 years ago

    Hi yefj,

    There are examples of how to setup an oscillator - both ring (strongly_nonlinear) and sinusoidal (linear) in the RF_Doc_Database

    ​database located in <SPECTRE17.1 hierarchy>/tools.lnx86/spectre/examples/SpectreRF_workshop/RF_Doc_Database.tar.gz

    And I believe the instructions are located here: <SPECTRE17.1>/doc/spectreRFexplorerWorkshop/spectreRFexplorerWorkshop.pdf

    The best part is...it explains the "why" about how set up the analysis.   Great step-by-step tutorials.    Also see:  Article 2046330 SpectreRF AppNotes and Tutorials - One of Our Best Kept Secrets! on https://support.cadence.com .

    Best regards,

    Tawna

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  • yefJ
    yefJ over 6 years ago in reply to Tawna

    Hello Tawna,Yes i am following the spectrerf manual , i am showing quotes of definitions in my first post to justify the numbers i used, and a step by step of how it was done, in order to see where my implementation differs from the spectre rf manual.

    Thanks

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  • ShawnLogan
    ShawnLogan over 6 years ago in reply to yefJ

    Dear Andrew,

    Thank you for correcting my error! I appreciate, very much, your insight and correction - as always - I have a lot to learn.

    Shawn

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