SpectreRF Summary (spectrerf)

Description

SpectreRF is an optional collection of analyses that are useful for circuits that are driven with a large periodic signal. Examples include mixers, oscillators, switched-capacitor filters, sample-and-holds, chopper stabilized amplifiers, frequency multipliers, frequency dividers, and samplers. They efficiently and directly compute the periodic and quasiperiodic steady-state solution of such circuits and are capable of computing large-and-small-signal behavior, including noise behavior. Therefore, SpectreRF is capable of computing the noise figure or intermodulation distortion of a mixer, the phase noise and harmonic distortion of an oscillator, and the frequency-response and noise behavior of a switched-capacitor filter. For more information about the SpectreRF analyses, run spectre -help analysisName where analysisName is pss, pac, pxf, pnoise, psp, pstb, qpss, qpac, qpxf, qpnoise, qpsp, envlp, hb, hbac, hbsp, or hbnoise.