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Transmitter Specs

transmitter design metrics infographics

Transmitter Specs Having little exposure to Industry, academic researchers wonder if they are designing the transmitter for the right metrics? Are transmitter specs all about output power and linearity? And besides what metrics are used by industry to characterize linearity? If you have such questions, you have landed at correct place. Take a look at […]

Ideal Low Pass Filter in Cadence

Ideal Low Pass Filter in Cadence Are you running FFT on time domain signal and need to have a brick-wall low pass filter to remove aliasing? Are you debugging non-linearities like IM3 and want to filter out certain harmonics to see what were their contribution? You need reconfigurable ideal filters. These are top three options […]

Transient to Spectrum

Transient to Spectrum In IC design, there comes a time when netlist of a circuit gets too big that harmonic balance (HB) or periodic steady state (PSS) simulations just would not converge or take eternity to finish. It is then we resort to classic time domain transient (tran) simulation where convergence is almost always guaranteed […]