[time-nuts] Spice simulation of PSRR and phase noise

[Dana Whitlow]

Hello Attila,

It seems to me that an AC simulation could never work since the
very generation of phase noise by the mechanisms that matter is
a modulation process at heart, automatically forcing one into the
realm of transient simulations.

But I am surprised about the simulation times that you speak of.
Would you be willing to post some information detailing your
methodology and an example "simple" circuit?

Dana

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been looking into spice simulations of circuits, in particular
> trying to extract PSRR and phase noise information. Unfortunatelly,
> the obvious way of putting AC sources at the right places does not
> work, as the (ideal) input signals are not small and drive the circuit
> into non-linearities. Hence I have to do transient simulations.
> But extracting PSRR and phase noise information out of a transient
> simulation is cumbersome at best and takes a lot of simulation time
> (we are talking about hours to days for simple circuits).
>
> I am looking for guidelines and hints how to speed things up.
> Maybe even being able to use standard DC and AC analysis for the
> circuit instead of transient. Unfortunately, my google-foo was not
> strong enough to find approriate documentation.
>
> Does someone have any hints what I should read or search for?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>                         Attila Kinali
>
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