Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM 15.1 and IC6.1.7 /ICADV12.2 releases? These forms have been significantly improved and simplified. The Direct Plot Form has also been enhanced and is much easy to use....(read more)

Hi, when I applied a voltage divider implemented by two 100-ohm resistors to a 2Vpp 5GHz vsin source, the phase noise simulation using pnoise/fullspectrum with different types, jitter and source have different results. The simulated output noise results are 165.76aV2/Hz for pmjitter case, and 828.79zV2/Hz for source case. The source case result equals to the output noise calculation.

For my application, the output will be applied to driven circuits and thus pm jitter is concerned. As the pmjitter is based on the noise sampling at the threshold crossings, I was wondering how spectre gets the pmjitter resullts since sampling white noise with infinite bandwidth is impossible to my knowledge?

Interestingly, the Jee result by integration from 10kHz to 2.5GHz is ~41fs and is closed to Jee,rms from the transient noise simulation. I am also not sure how these results come and match each other. If applying the voltage divider output to drive next stages, I was wondering to what extent I can trust the input jitter from these simulations? Thank you.