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spectre: AC freequency analysis
Aug 31^st, 2006, 6:08am

Hi experts,
I am new to spectre and interested in doing spectre simulatin by creating spectre decks. I don't know exactly how to do AC analyis for freequency sweep as an example if i want to simulating a RLC circuit with AC stimulus of freequncy which is being swept from 10Hz to say 1MEG Hz. Could anyone of you help me in this regard of by providing spectre simulation statements required for this requirement.

Advance thanks for your support
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Kiran

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Ken Kundert

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Re: spectre: AC freequency analysis
Reply #1 - Aug 31^st, 2006, 9:28am

Use "spectre -h ac" for help on how to use the ac analysis. The form of the statement is ...

name ac param=value ...

An example is

computeGain ac start=1_Hz stop=1MHz

This runs an AC analysis from 1Hz to 1MHz and calls it "computeGain". It assumes that there is a source in your circuit with a mag parameter. For example

Vin (in 0) vsource mag=1

-Ken

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Re: spectre: AC freequency analysis
Reply #2 - Sep 1^st, 2006, 12:25am

Hi Ken,
Thanks for you reply herewith i have pasted contents of the deck i used for this analysis
when i put below statement to see voltage across vsour and current through R1 i am seeing constant 0V or 0A through out the entire freequncy sweep

save A R1:currents

please let me know if the wrong is in save statement

my instension of doing this is analysing series resonance circuit with I vs Freq or Z vs Freq

Thanks for your support

Kiran

//****************************
// Device declaration
//****************************
R1 A K resistor r=10
L2 K K1 inductor l=100n
C1 K1 K2 capacitor c=10u

//****************************
// AC VSOURCE declaration
//****************************
vsour (A K2) vsource type=sine sinedc=1.2 ampl=0.1 freq=1 sinephase=0
vvss (K2 0) vsource dc=0 type=dc

//****************************
// AC SWEEP
//****************************
//Freq_sweep sweep param=freq start=1 stop=10K step=100
AC ac param = freq start=1 stop=10K step=100

//****************************
// SAVE RESULTS
//****************************

save A R1:currents

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Ken Kundert Global Moderator Offline Posts: 2386 Silicon Valley	Re: spectre: AC freequency analysis Reply #3 - Sep 1^st, 2006, 8:52am The parameters you put on vsour to describe a sine wave only affect transient. To get an AC stimulus, add "mag=1" to the end of vsour. -Ken
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kiran123 Community Member Offline Posts: 42	Re: spectre: AC freequency analysis Reply #4 - Sep 3^rd, 2006, 9:53pm Thanks it is working now and i did not see this option anywhere in spectre -h vsource or spectre -h ac am i missing any proper help on this ?
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Ken Kundert Global Moderator Offline Posts: 2386 Silicon Valley	Re: spectre: AC freequency analysis Reply #5 - Sep 3^rd, 2006, 11:42pm It is in "spectre -h vsource" under the heading "Small Signal Paramters". Also, this behavior is modeled after SPICE, so if you are familiar with running AC analysis in SPICE, you should have a good understanding of how to do it in Spectre. -Ken
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kiran123 Community Member Offline Posts: 42	Re: spectre: AC freequency analysis Reply #6 - Sep 5^th, 2006, 4:37am ken could you suggest some doc on spectre simulation with examples, where from can i download spectre related documents thanks Kiran
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Re: spectre: AC frequency analysis
Reply #7 - Sep 5^th, 2006, 8:04am

I am not aware of anything that is purely introductory. The best places I know for information on Spectre are ...

This website
The Designer's Guide to SPICE and Spectre (http://www.designers-guide.org/Books/dg-spice/index.html)
spectre -h
The spectre user's guide

You might consider a Cadence training class on Spectre.

-Ken

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