BenMartin
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I am trying to simulate a Capacitive Transimpedance Amplifier (CTIA), being used to integrate a photodiode current. Basically, a CTIA is just an op-amp with a capacitor in feedback to integrate (and a reset switch, which shorts this capacitor to clear the integration). The reset is periodic.
Can a PNOISE simulation be used in this circuit to test the CTIA 1/f noise, and more importantly, to simulate the effect of a CDS downstream at removing 1/f noise? I have read the paper on simulating SC circuits using PNOISE and PAC.
So far, I have been unsuccessful at getting a output PSD that shows the effect of the CDS (suppression of 1/f noise in low frequencies). I am starting to question my methods.
It could also be the circuit, I suppose, but I tried solving the gain from the op-amp inputs (where input-referred noise would appear) to the output, using a PAC analysis, and it correctly shows almost complete suppression of low frequency, so I don't understand why PNOISE would tell me that that op-amps's input transistor is still contributing the majority of noise (as 1/f), and why that 1/f noise has a classic 1/f shape despite CDS. It should have a zero at DC, I would expect.
Thanks, Ben
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