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Title: What value of port impedance should be in Noise simulation with Cadence Spectre? Post by xxgeneral on Feb 25th, 2012, 10:11pm Hi guys, I've gotten something unsure about noise factor. Hope for help here. The Noise Factor is defined as below. N = (Na+G*Ns)/(G*Ns). Different Ns produces different N. And in Cadence spectre, the noise source is usually a port. The impedance of the port provides the thermal noise 4kTRB V^2, which is related to the value of R. Q1: What value of R should be set? Q2: If R=50 Ohm, why? Q3: If R=Rout of the preceding device, then noise factor of the DUV(Device Under Test) is dependent on different source impedances. So noise factor is not a general performance factor of DUV for comparison, isn't it? Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance. |
Title: Re: What value of port impedance should be in Noise simulation with Cadence Spectre? Post by loose-electron on Feb 27th, 2012, 2:15pm What will be the impedance of the device dribving your test circuit? Am I missing something here? |
Title: Re: What value of port impedance should be in Noise simulation with Cadence Spectre? Post by Vladislav D on Feb 27th, 2012, 2:39pm With different source resistance u get different NF since the gain from the voltage source to the output changes. For NF simulation the impedance should be set to 50 Ohms since this is a standard in the industry and when u measure something, you will use 50-Ohms measurement equipment. If you know NF of a device u can estimate the NF with any source impedance so do always a NF simulation with a 50 Ohm port and you will never confuse yourself or somebody else in the future. If you calculate not a 50-Ohm system, it is better to calculate voltage and current noise at the output and use SNR term because this is what is needed at the end of a day. |
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