Tag: phase_noise

Modeling phase noise (frequency domain approach)

In typical wireless system simulations, there is  a need to model the phase noise profile of the local oscillator. For eg, the phase noise profile of the oscillator can be of the shape described in the post on Phase Noise Power Spectral Density to Jitter. While looking around for example Matlab code, found two references [1, 2] which uses the approach of defining the phase noise profile in frequency domain, and then using ifft() to convert to the time domain samples. This post gives a brief overview of the modeling and provides an example Matlab/Octave code.

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Transmit spectrum with phase noise

The earlier posts on phase noise discussed about phase noise in oscillators, conversion of phase noise profile to jitter and the impact of phase noise on the error vector magnitude (evm). This post discuss the impact of phase noise on the spectrum of the transmit waveform.  A simple random QPSK modulated symbols, oversampled and passed through a root raised cosine filtering is used for the simulation. Continue reading “Transmit spectrum with phase noise”

Phase noise power spectral density to Jitter

Following a brief discussion with my friend Mr. Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu on phase noise profiles, he pointed me to his write up on Oscillator Phase Noise and Sampling Clock Jitter . In this post, we will discuss the math behind integrating the phase noise power spectral density (in dBc/Hz) to find the root mean square jitter value.

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Oscillator phase noise

Oscillators are used in typical radio circuits to drive the mixer used for the up-conversion or down-conversion of the passband transmission. Ideally, the spectrum of the oscillator is expected to have an impulse at the frequency of oscillation with no frequency components else where. However the spectrum of practical oscillators do have spectrum skirts around the oscillation frequency caused due to phase noise. This post discuss about the phase noise of oscillator and the metrics used to specify it.

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