jlgonzalez
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Thanks for the information. I would like to formulate another question.
My concern is in autonomous circuits. The theoretical work of A. Demir (and others) has shown that a linearized perturbation analysis of this LPTV system of equations is not correct for phase noise in oscillators, because the phase noise can be very large even for very small perturbations. I have read the theory section of the SpectreRF user guide about Oscillator Noise Analysis and it seems to me that the analysis is done using the linearization technique, instead of the non-linear perturbation analysis proposed by A. Demir. Is that correct?
I have done some simulations in a VCO by inserting voltage sources at several nodes of the circuit. The idea was to analyze which of the nodes is responsible of the most important contribution to phase noise. I'm looking only at the transfer function corresponding to up-conversion of low frequency components to the sidebands of the fundamental of the oscillator. I run a PSS and a PXF analysis. The transfer functions that I found (corresponding to the harmonic -1) grow unbounded as the offset frequency approaches 0. If I multiply this transfer functions by a noise PSD at the perturbed nodes I expect to find the same result that by running a PNOISE analysis with only the -1 sideband. Is that correct?
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