pancho_hideboo wrote on Jul 27th, 2010, 4:30am:Maybe your matching network has very high Q.
High Q could cause convergence failure for time domain solver.
Use HB-engine not Shooting-Newton-engine in PSS of Cadence Spectre.
mohammadreza wrote on Jul 27th, 2010, 5:08am:I didn't see any HB-engine.
Just shooting and flexible balance.
I chose flexible balance and it worked.
See
http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1258711290/1#1mohammadreza wrote on Jul 27th, 2010, 5:08am:About the Q, since I need to operate between 2.4GHz and 2.49GHz, I chose 300.
Is that fine?
BW
3dB=f0/Q=2.445GHz/300=8.15MHz. It is too narrow.
You have to have broad BW
3dB which is far broader than 90MHz.
So set Q lesser than 27.
Also see the followings.
http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1207009725/2#2http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1278414763/18#18mohammadreza wrote on Jul 27th, 2010, 5:29am:decreasing the Q helped run the simulation successfully with the moderate accuracy.
Your case summaries are followings.
For Q>=300,
Shooting-Newton-PSS with accuracy of moderate
can not converge.
For Q<30, Shooting-Newton-PSS with accuracy of moderate can converge.
For Q>=300,
HB-PSS with accuracy of moderate
can converge.
For Q<30, HB-PSS with accuracy of moderate can converge.
Are the aboves correct ?