"Numeric noise analysis"

Numeric noise analysis

Table: Element data of expanded netlist 'RB_Noise'
RefDesNodesRefsModelParamSymbolicNumeric
C1N001 N003 C value$C_{A}$$6.3 \cdot 10^{-12}$
C2N002 N001 C value$\frac{C_{A}}{2}$$3.15 \cdot 10^{-12}$
I1N001 N002 I value$0$$0$
dc$0$$0$
dcvar$0$$0$
noise$\frac{4 T k}{R_{B}}$$\frac{1.657 \cdot 10^{-20}}{R_{B}}$
I1_XU1N001 0 I noise$S_{i}$$0$
I2N002 out I value$0$$0$
dc$0$$0$
dcvar$0$$0$
noise$\frac{4 T k}{R_{o}}$$3.314 \cdot 10^{-22}$
N1_XU1N002 0 3_XU1 0 N
R1out 0 R value$R_{\ell}$$50.0$
R2out N002 R value$R_{o}$$50.0$
R3N002 N001 R value$R_{B}$$R_{B}$
V1N003 0 V value$0$$0$
dc$0$$0$
dcvar$0$$0$
noise$0$$0$
V1_XU1N001 3_XU1 V noise$S_{v}$$0$
Table: Parameter definitions in 'RB_Noise'.
NameSymbolicNumeric
$C_{A}$$6.3 \cdot 10^{-12}$$6.3 \cdot 10^{-12}$
$R_{\ell}$$50$$50.0$
$R_{o}$$50$$50.0$
$S_{i}$$0$$0$
$S_{v}$$0$$0$
$T$$300$$300.0$
$k$$1.381 \cdot 10^{-23}$$1.381 \cdot 10^{-23}$

Numeric noise analysis results

Detector-referred noise spectrum

$$S_{out}=\frac{7.017 \cdot 10^{5} R_{B}}{6.636 \cdot 10^{4} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 1.694 \cdot 10^{26}} + \frac{1.374 \cdot 10^{-14} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 3.508 \cdot 10^{7}}{6.636 \cdot 10^{4} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 1.694 \cdot 10^{26}}\, \mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$$

Source-referred noise spectrum

$$S_{in}=\frac{10.57}{R_{B} f^{2}} + \frac{2.071 \cdot 10^{-19} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 528.7}{R_{B}^{2} f^{2}}\, \mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$$

Contributions of individual noise sources

Noise source: I1
Spectral density:$\frac{1.657 \cdot 10^{-20}}{R_{B}}$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{A^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Detector-referred:$\frac{7.017 \cdot 10^{5} R_{B}}{6.636 \cdot 10^{4} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 1.694 \cdot 10^{26}}$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Source-referred:$\frac{10.57}{R_{B} f^{2}}$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Noise source: I1_XU1
Spectral density:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{A^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Detector-referred:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Source-referred:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Noise source: I2
Spectral density:$3.314 \cdot 10^{-22}$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{A^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Detector-referred:$\frac{1.374 \cdot 10^{-14} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 3.508 \cdot 10^{7}}{6.636 \cdot 10^{4} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 1.694 \cdot 10^{26}}$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Source-referred:$\frac{2.071 \cdot 10^{-19} R_{B}^{2} f^{2} + 528.7}{R_{B}^{2} f^{2}}$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Noise source: V1
Spectral density:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Detector-referred:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Source-referred:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Noise source: V1_XU1
Spectral density:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Detector-referred:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$
Source-referred:$0$$\,\mathrm{\left[\frac{V^2}{Hz}\right]}$

$R_B$ increases the noise at low frequencies. A show stopper value is obtained if its contribution at the lowest frequency of interest (10kHz) is just within specifications. Hence, we need to solve $R_B$ from:

\begin{equation} 1.0 \cdot 10^{-14}=\frac{7.017 \cdot 10^{5} R_{B}}{6.724 \cdot 10^{11} \pi^{2} R_{B}^{2} + 1.694 \cdot 10^{26}} + \frac{1.374 \cdot 10^{-6} R_{B}^{2} + 3.508 \cdot 10^{7}}{6.724 \cdot 10^{11} \pi^{2} R_{B}^{2} + 1.694 \cdot 10^{26}} \end{equation}

in this way we obtain:

\begin{equation} R_{B min}=1.057 \cdot 10^{7} \end{equation}

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