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ic_engr Senior Member Offline Posts: 135	burst source Feb 08^th, 2010, 11:52am I need to use a burst sine wave. Basically a sine signal with abitlity to repeat with a burst frequency. Any Ideas. ic_engr
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Andrew Beckett Senior Fellow Offline Life, don't talk to me about Life... Posts: 1742 Bracknell, UK	Re: burst source Reply #1 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 3:38am Not sure I understand what you're asking. Perhaps a picture or reference might help? What varies over time? A sine wave is normally repeating, so I'm not sure what the "burst frequency" is for - what does it actually change? This might be a well known term, but it's not well known to me! Regards, Andrew.
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Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 5:16am

What I need as a sourse is a periodic sine signal which turns on and off at a specific rate. For example, a 100Hz sine wave that starts at 1msec and then after few cycles of 100Hz turns-off and then repeats.

I may be able to do this using switches but was hoping to get something more generic from the sources available may be even in ahdl.

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pancho_hideboo Senior Fellow Offline Posts: 1424 Real Homeless	Re: burst source Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 5:33am ic_engr wrote on Feb 8^th, 2010, 11:52am: I need to use �a burst sine wave. Basically a sine signal with abitlity to repeat with �a burst frequency. Use the following. http://edocs.soco.agilent.com/display/ads2009/VtRF+Pulse+%28Voltage+Source%2C+RF...
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ic_engr Senior Member Offline Posts: 135	Re: burst source Reply #4 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 5:51am Hello pancho_hideboo, I donot see this source is Cadence analogLib nor in ahdlLib. Any suggestions. ic_engr
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Re: burst source
Reply #5 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 5:57am

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ic_engr wrote on Feb 9^th, 2010, 5:51am:

I donot see this source is Cadence analogLib nor in ahdlLib.

This source is available in adsLib for Cadence DFII.

If you don't have Agilent RFDE, you have to create custom source by Verilog-A.
I can easily create custom source which realize same function as "VtRF_Pulse" in "adsLib" by Verilog-A.

Burst sinusoidal is no more than ASK or OOK signal.
So if you don't have skill to write custom source by Verilog-A, use combination of vsin, vpulse and multiplier.

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Reply #6 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 6:18am

This is easy enough to do in spectre without needing VerilogA.

Create an instance of vsource set to sine, or vsin - e.g. I had frequency 1M, ampl 2
Create an instance of vsource set to pulse, or vpulse which is your burst - for example, period 10u, width 5u, rise/fall 1n, low voltage 0, high voltage 1.
Create an instance of pvcvsp with number of controlling voltage set to 2, Max coefficent number set to 4, and set Poly Coeff 0-3 to be 0, and Poly Coeff 4 to be 1.
Wire all the - pins of the pvcvsp instance to ground, and the + input pins to the two sources - the output pin will be your "burst" sine source.

This works by utilizing spectre's "pvcvs" (polynomial voltage controlled voltage source) - type "spectre -h pvcvs" for more details. The coefficients are chosen so you only get the product of the two input sources.

Regards,

Andrew.

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ic_engr Senior Member Offline Posts: 135	Re: burst source Reply #7 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 6:20am Well I do not see adslib, I see rfLib in Cadence dfII. ic_engr
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ic_engr Senior Member Offline Posts: 135	Re: burst source Reply #8 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 6:21am Andrew, Thanks for your input, I will try it. ic_engr
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Andrew Beckett Senior Fellow Offline Life, don't talk to me about Life... Posts: 1742 Bracknell, UK	Re: burst source Reply #9 - Feb 9^th, 2010, 6:22am adsLib comes with the Agilent tools (e.g. RFDE), and is for Agilent simulators. If you're using spectre, you can use the suggestion I made previously. Regards, Andrew.
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ic_engr Senior Member Offline Posts: 135	Re: burst source Reply #10 - Feb 11^th, 2010, 4:53am Andrew, Thanks you suggestion worked perfectly well with polynomical vcvs. ic_engr
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