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Comment on How to Specify Phase Noise as an Instance Parameter in Spectre Sources (e.g. vsource, isource, Port)

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Hi Tawna, this is really helpful however, we do not have the required MMSIM version yet. So i used the verilogA version which you suggested (mentioned at the start of this post). I faced few issues while using that approach, mentioned below: 1. The phase noise plot is incorrect if the points per decade(in pnoise analysis) is increased to more than 1(1 being the value used in the spectre_state provided in the post). 2. I used the freq_divider block(from rfLib) to divide the pll output by 2. The division worked fine but phase noise at the divider output did not make sense. It is supposed to be roughly 6dB better but it shows a value which is completely wrong. Can you please let me know if these are limitations of these blocks behavior or am I doing some thing wrong. Thank you!!

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