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iVenky
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Question on Sampled PAC
Dec 24th, 2019, 4:20pm
 
Hi,

I am wondering what the sampled PAC does exactly.

Let's say I have an LPTV system H(jw,t)=ΣHk(jw) ejkwst where ws = 2Π/Ts where 'Ts' is the periodicity of the system & 'k' is an integer from -∞ to -∞.
Here Hk(jw) are the harmonic transfer functions.

Let's say we have an input x(t)=ejwint to the system H(jw,t) and whose output is y(t) which has the frequency translated input x(t) scaled by the harmonic transfer functions.

What does the sampled PAC at a time 't0' actually measure? I can understand PAC voltage gain, which looks at the gain frequency translated output magnitude to input magnitude. On the other hand, what does sampled PAC voltage gain do?

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Reply #1 - Jan 8th, 2020, 7:54am
 
Sampled PAC gives you the signal that you would see at the output of an ideal sampler that is running at the frequency of the PSS analysis (see https://support.cadence.com/apex/techpubDocViewerPage?&path=spectreRFTheory/spec...). For an explanation of ideal sampling, you can take a look at Ken's paper https://designers-guide.org/analysis/sc-filters.pdf. When he wrote it, the sampled PAC and PXF analyses had not yet been implemented in SpectreRF, so he used an ideal sample-and-hold written in Verilog-A.
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