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the noise simulation of switch capacitor filter.
Nov 26th, 2006, 11:01pm
 
I read the <<simulating switched-capacitor filters with spectreRF>> by ken. I try to follow it. And I have simulated a switch capacitor filter. In the simulation, I found that the noise is double when the maxsideband and the number of harmonics changed from 100 to 200. I don't think the harmonics larger than 100 will contribute so much noise. So the question is , what's wrong with it? One part of netlist is listed below.

pss  pss  fund=1M  harms=200  errpreset=moderate  tstab=4.6u
+    method=gear2only  tstabmethod=gear2only  annotate=status  maxiters=50
pnoise  (  outp  outn  )  pnoise  start=1  stop=1e6  dec=101
+       maxsideband=200  iprobe=V6  refsideband=0  annotate=status


I also include the noise file in the vdd. The frequency range is 10-20kHz. The total output noise is also measured in this range. The another question is , if I only provide 10-20kHz range noise, how will the simulator deal the noise out range of it? Is the noise file used in this method right or not?

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Re: the noise simulation of switch capacitor filte
Reply #1 - Jan 15th, 2007, 7:38am
 
In recent versions of spectre, there's an option to save all the noise contributions - separating noise at source from noise gain for each device. This is the separatenoise=yes parameter to pnoise. Alternatively, you can use the saveallsidebands=yes parameter (this is implied by separatenoise=yes) to save the noise contribution from each individual sideband. That way you can see what the contribution of sideband 100 versus sideband 200 is, etc, etc. 200MHz is not _that_ high in frequency...

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