By "in Cadence" I assume you mean using Spectre in the Analog Design Environment - there is no tool called Cadence (that's the name of the company, not the software). If you're using a different simulator or a different environment (you could have been talking about HSPICE in ADE, or PSPICE in the PCB environment) then please say. Whether you do a log or a linear sweep makes no difference to the simulation of a specific frequency; all spectre is doing is simulating the noise at a number of different frequency points and computing the output referred noise plus the output referred noise contribution of each noise source. The sweep simply controls what frequency points are picked for the simulation. If you are integrating the noise over a particular bandwidth, how accurate that integration is will be dependent upon the smoothness of the noise response in the frequency band you have chosen - which will be dependent upon the spacing and number of points you've simulated; the integration probably just uses the trapezoidal rule to integrate (I didn't check). This integration is done for both the output noise and each noise contribution, so it is quite conceivable that you will get different rankings in each case if there aren't enough points in the range being integrated. Without more detail (ideally seeing the data - so you might want to go to customer support ) I can't give a more precise explanation for the difference. Regards, Andrew.![]()
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