Input power in pss simulation

Discussion in 'Cadence' started by tkleeburg, Jun 1, 2007.

  1. tkleeburg

    tkleeburg Guest

    Hi,
    I am running a pss simulation on a few transistors which should act as
    a PA.

    Ive defined 2 ports at the input and output.

    Pin is the power out defined in port 1 under Amplitude (dBm), and the
    input wave is a sine at 1 frequency. there are no other tones defined
    in the port.

    The pss simulation is defined as 1 pss 2.4G 3 -40 0 Large Port1

    I am sweeping the input power(Pin) out of port 1 over a some range so,
    when i plot the power out of port 1 vs the swept variable it should be
    a straight line with a slope of 1.


    BUT...

    The output power of port 1 is at least 5 dBm higher than the input
    power and it has spectral components. I assumed that it might be
    modeling spectral regrowth which takes care of the spectral components
    but not the higher power.

    so when i plot the 1dB compression point i am wondering if the input
    power is 5dBm higher than it says.

    Secondly is the input power 1/2 VxI* like it is at the output or does
    it assume equal impedances for the source and the input so something
    like Pav= V^2/(4*Rport)?



    also i am using a MOS transistors and the S11 of the device seems
    outrageous for my device size (pretty large W/L = 320).

    gamma is about 1 at about and the angle is -30 approximately.

    Has anyone else seen results like this?

    Thanks
    Travis
     
    tkleeburg, Jun 1, 2007
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