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What is the meaning of the Harmonic number in PAC mixer simulations
Mar 19th, 2009, 4:22am
 
Hi all,

I am reading a document indicating how to simulate mixers in Cadence. In the direct plot form of the PAC, in the output harmonic windows, as shown in the attached picture, there are harmonics number in one column and frequency in the other column. I really don't know the meaning of the number in the left column. In this example, the LO frequency is 5 GHz and the RF is 5.001 GHz. I think "0" means the RF frequency, "-1" means the mixed-down product (5.001 - 5), "1" is the mixed-up product (5.001+5), but I don't know about the "2" and "-2". I actually would like to know how the number in the left column related to the frequency in the right column.

Could someone suggest me please ???  ;)

Thanks a lot,

DYL
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Re: What is the meaning of the Harmonic number in PAC mixer simulations
Reply #1 - Mar 19th, 2009, 5:08am
 
Those frequencies are the mixing products of the RF frequency with the LO harmonics: f=|fRF+n×fLO|
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Reply #2 - Mar 20th, 2009, 4:01am
 
Oh, I see now  ;D Thank you very much Frank  8-)

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Reply #3 - Mar 22nd, 2009, 11:03pm
 
With PAC, you specify an input frequency (or commonly a sweep of input frequency) in the analysis. You also specify the maximum number of sidebands you want the analysis to compute.

The simulator will then produce outputs at Fin+k*Fpss where k is the "harmonic" number (I think it should really be called sideband, but that's the way it is), and Fpss is the fundamental for the PSS analysis. So -2 and +2 are the input frequency shifted by +/- 2 times the PSS fundamental.

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