Andrew Beckett
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Another way you can do this is to do a transient and then sweep the control voltage. At the output of the VCO, put a freq_meter component (in ahdlLib under <instdir>/tools/dfII/samples/local/artist/ahdlLib at the output. This is a verilog-a model which captures the instantaneous frequency.
However, in order to allow it to settle you probably need to sweep the control voltage slowly, or perhaps use a pwl source to step the control voltage up so you can leave it steady for a few cycles.
Best is to use the autonomous PSS method described previously in this thread, though.
Regards,
Andrew.
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