simon2
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Hi cowell, I guess you already have a solution - so this is for the benefit of others reading this post "after-the-fact":
If you can create the signal (say in excel) then you can take the output signal as a set of time-voltage (or current) paired points and place them into a pwl source'sdefinition. In spectre this can be done quite easily with a pwlfile source pointing to the above pairs correctly formatted csv file which can easily be manipulated in a text editor.
I have in the past done something similar using captured data from real-world instruments (such as a DSO) and used spice as a DSP tool.
You could also generate your "signal" in an arbitary waveform generator or capture it from a test instrument.
You did not say what the application was - if it is something like an OFDM signal, you may find that you do better by choosing a low number (say four or eight) strategically placed tones to represent the signal, then work with them. Doing so, should speed up your simulations as the simulator does not have to converge at so many different data points needed to define the input signal.
Cheers, SimonH.
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