ywguo wrote on Feb 4th, 2008, 10:39pm:Hi Frank,
English is not my native language. Please forgive me if I ask you what strobed noise is. I am not very clear. Does strobed noise mean the transient noise at a specified time point?
Strobed noise, sampled noise and timedomain noise are different names for the same type of analysis. Historically, this analysis was first called timedomain noise. Now, ADE says "timedomain: strobed noise analysis" when you select Noise Type: timedomain". Ken calls it sampled noise in
http://www.designers-guide.org/Analysis/sc-filters.pdf.
Quote:If my guess about strobed noise is right, why do you recommend to set numberofpoints=0 and specifying the points with the noisetimepoints parameter? The definition for the above two parameters are shown below, which I get with the command "spectre -h pnoise".
26 noisetimepoints=[...]
Additional time points for time-domain noise analysis.
27 numberofpoints=5 Number of time points of interest in the period where to calculate time domain PSD. Simulator
divides the period evenly into N segments (N=numberofpoints) and calculates time domain PSD
on the starting time point of each segment. When < 0, the parameter is ignored.
I think that it is reasonable to set numberofpoints=1. If it's set to 0, does the simulator measure noise at any point?
It will measure the noise at exactly the points you specified with the noisetimepoints parameter (just try it). The numberofpoints parameter will calculate the noise at additional evenly-spaced points starting at the beginning of the period.
Quote:Is there any books or literature explaining the principle, syntax, and usage of spectre? It is not so easy with the online help "spectre -help". :(
I don't know of any documentation other than the one from Cadence that comes with SpectreRF (for example
http://sourcelink.cadence.com/docs/files/Release_Info/Docs/spectreRFvol2/spectre...) and Ken's paper mentioned above.