Andrew Beckett
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If you sweep the pnoise in relative mode, relative to harmonic 1, it means that you will be looking at the noise at 4.8G+1M to 5.8G+1M.
What relative sweeptype on the small signal analysis does is specify that the frequency sweep you entered is shifted by n times the PSS fundamental where n is the relative harmonic number.
Since with pnoise and pxf you would be entering the output frequency range, this would only make sense with an up-conversion mixer. For pac you're entering the input frequency range, and so it's quite reasonable to use a relative sweeptype there for a downconversion mixer.
From IC5141 USR2 (out soon), the small signal forms have had a minor enhancement that I suggested, which is to add the word "Output" before Frequency Sweep Range on the pnoise/pxf form, and "Input" before the Frequency Sweep Range on the pac form - to make it more obvious to casual users...
Regards,
Andrew.
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