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Plot on Smith Chart from HB Simulation

tsnv
tsnv over 1 year ago

Dear All,

To design an outphasing combiner, I need to extract the input impedances when the circuit is driven by two sources concurrently with a varying phase-shift and plot them on a Smith Chart. However, I can't find a way to display the simulated S-parameters on a Smith Chart.

The testbench, shown below, consists of two sources set to 50 Ohm with variable phase (PORT0: theta, PORT1: -theta) swept from -90° to 90°. The NPORTs are couplers used to isolate the forward and reflected power at each source, i.e. the S-parameters are:

  • S13 = S31 = 1; through path
  • S21 = S41 = 1; forward and reflected power
  • All other are zero

Combiner testbench

The testbench is simulated with an "hb" analysis instead of "sp", as the two sources have to be excited simultaneously with varying phase-shift to see their load-modulation effect. The sweep is setup in the "Choosing Analysis" window. The powers of the forward (pXa) and reflected (pXb) waves are found through the "Direct Plot" window, e.g. pvr('hb "/p1a" 0 50.0 '(1)) as the power for p1a, and named P1A_Watt. The S-parameters are then calculated as the reflected power w.r.t. the forward power P1B_Watt/P1A_Watt. This approach is based on a Hot S-parameter testbench from ADS.

At this point I would like to display these S-parameters on a Smith Chart. However, this seemed more challenging than expected. One straightforward method would seem to create an empty Smith Chart window in the Display Window and dragging the S-parameters from the rectangular plot on it, but this just deletes them from the Display Window. Hence my question:

How can I display these S-parameters on a Smith Chart?

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  • Tawna
    Tawna over 1 year ago

    Please contact Customer Support https://support.cadence.com . 

    thanks,

    Tawna

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  • tsnv
    tsnv over 1 year ago in reply to Tawna

    Dear Tawna,

    Thank you for the suggestion. I hoped to solve this inconvenience through Customer Support. I had contacted Customer Support before I posted the question here. They forwarded me to the company that provided me with the technology licenses, despite the question not being specific to the technology. The company couldn't solve the issue.

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  • Tawna
    Tawna over 1 year ago in reply to tsnv

    Please provide the case number - I'll take a look.

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  • tsnv
    tsnv over 1 year ago in reply to Tawna

    46762989

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  • Tawna
    Tawna over 1 year ago in reply to tsnv

    This is best handled by the European AEs - I'll get in contact with Andrew (a frequent contributor to this forum).  It appears that an enhancement CCR should be filed. 

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 1 year ago in reply to Tawna

    Actually, as you are a university under the Europractice scheme, you should contact the Europractice software service for support (which was what was advised in the case; that's how the support model works with the Europractice scheme). They should then contact us if they need further support that they can't handle themselves.

    Andrew.

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