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Accurate Fourier Analysis for Circuit Simulators Kenneth S. Kundert | Cadence Design Systems (Based on Presentation to CICC 94) Abstract mixers, DACs and SC-lters. The second advantage also results in the new metho d A new approach to Fourier analysis within the context b eing less sensitive to the error that results from the sig- of circuit simulation is presented that is considerably nal not b eing precisely p erio dic. This common situation more accurate and exible than the traditional SPICE results when analyzing signals generated by a circuit that approach. It is based on the direct computation of the has not completely settled. In this case, the signal at the Fourier integral rather than on the discrete Fourier trans- b eginning and the end of the p erio d do not match. Fourier form and so it is not sub ject to aliasing. It can b e used analysis assumes p erio dic signals, and treats a nonp eri- to accurately compute a small numb er of Fourier co e- o dic signal as a p erio dic signal with a discontinuous jump cients for broad-sp ectrum signals such as those generated at the end of the analysis interval. Because it is discon- by mixers, 
and pulse-width mo dulators, DACs, and tinuous, the jump is an error with a very wide bandwidth. SC-lters. In addition, techniques that reduce errors and Both the Fourier integral and the DFT are sensitive to the provide the ability to resolve harmonics 120 dB { 140 dB p ortion of the error from the jump at the frequencies of b elow the carrier are presented. the co ecients b eing computed. However, the DFT is also