Adding noise to a sine source

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by Ajay, Nov 16, 2003.

  1. Ajay

    Ajay Guest

    Hi,
    I have a schematic which has a sine wave as an input. I want to add
    noise to a sine source to do some analysis. I saw the "noise/freq
    pair" field in the "Properties" of the sine wave. However adding that
    does not help. Has anybody used this feature. If yes please could you
    let me know how to use it.

    Thanks in Anticipation

    Cheers !!
    Ajay
     
    Ajay, Nov 16, 2003
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  2. Ajay

    Partha Guest

    Ajay,
    Consider the use of port component in analogLib library. It supports
    all source types pwl, pulse, sine dc and exponent. It also has an
    intrinsic noise source that allows noise analysis to directkly compute
    the noise figure of a circuit

    Partha
     
    Partha, Nov 17, 2003
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  3. Ajay,

    My guess is that you're not doing a noise analysis - one of noise, sp, pnoise,
    psp, qpnoise or qpsp. spectre supports small signal noise analyses.
    I suspect that you think it will show up in the transient analysis - it won't.

    But Partha's point is good - using a port component is good for this; again,
    the noise will only appear in one of the above analyses.

    There has been discussion in the past on this group (check google)
    on transient noise and the merits (or lack of) thereof.

    Regards,

    Andrew.
     
    Andrew Beckett, Nov 18, 2003
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