Spectre® RF Analysis using Harmonic Balance Training
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Length : 2 days
Course Description
In this Engineer Explorer course for RF designers, you gain advanced knowledge of RF circuit analysis. This course explores applications of the Harmonic Balance (HB) engine used for RF analyses in the Virtuoso® Spectre® RF circuit simulator environment. You learn simulation setup methods of various analyses pertaining to commonly used RF circuits to simulate periodic operating points, transients, and RF envelopes. You evaluate noise, stability, and parameters, such as IP3, in detail. You examine the simulation solver with an emphasis on the parameters and convergence aids that help optimize and speed up the simulation while analyzing large RF circuits.
You may also be interested in: Spectre RF Analysis using Shooting Newton Method
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Apply the Harmonic Balance (HB) algorithm, its options, and its properties to simulate and analyze RF circuits
- Apply simulator accelerators and convergence aids to maximize efficiency in RF simulations
- Use periodic AC (HBAC) and periodic transfer (HBXF) analyses
- Perform stability (HBSTAB) analysis on LPTV circuits
- Perform harmonic balance noise analysis (hbnoise) and create noise summary tables
- Understand how to differentiate between noise coming from the noise source and that coming through the periodic transfer function using the noise separation feature
- Apply the harmonic balnce noise analysis (hbnoise) to define and evaluate different types of jitter in driven and autonomous circuits, such as oscillators
- Evaluate the period (Jc) and adjacent period (cycle-to-cycle Jcc) jitter, and evaluate jitter for driven circuits (Jee)
- Simulate voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) and use the harmonic balance stability (hbstab) analysis on the oscillator
- Extract S-Parameters and simulate S-Parameter file
- Set up and perform envelope analysis
Software Used in This Course
- Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator_L
- Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator
- Virtuoso Spectre RF Simulation Option
Software Release(s)
IC 6.1.7 ISR8, MMSIM 15.1
Modules in this Course
- Harmonic Balance Analysis
- Oscillators
- Small Signal Analyses after HB
- Noise Analysis
- Envelope (ENVLP) Analysis
- S-Parameter Analysis
Audience
- Analog IC Designers
- Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Designers
- Chip Designers
- Custom Circuit Designers
- RF Designers
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you need to have:
- An understanding of RF circuits and RF design analysis and measurements
- Used the Spectre® Circuit simulator
- Briefly used or been exposed to the Accelerated Parallel Simulator® (APS)
Or you must have completed the following courses:
Related Courses
- Virtuoso ADE Explorer S1: Set Up and Run Analog Simulations Using the Spectre Simulator
- Spectre RF Analysis using Shooting Newton Method
- Spectre Simulator Fundamentals S1: Spectre Basics
- Spectre Simulator Fundamentals S2: Large-Signal Analyses
- Spectre Simulator Fundamentals S3: Small-Signal Analyses
- Spectre Simulator Fundamentals S4: Measurement Description Language
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