[SI-LIST] Re: Impulse vs. Step Response?
- From: steve weir <weirsi@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:03:47 -0700
David. I was mistaken. Taht's what I get for not looking closely at the
deck. However your rise time is only 1/20th of the RC time constant so
the result that you will get from the transient will have little
difference than one with a zero rise time.
Steve.
On 9/2/2011 9:48 AM, David Banas wrote:
> "You are not driving your transient with a step"
>
> Why do you say that?
> -db
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> As long as the frequency / time domain conversions cover a wide enough
> frequency range the FD response and the FFT of the unit impulse should
> match. You are not driving your transient with a step so there should
> not be a need to consider
>
> U(w) = H(w)/jw
>
> Steve.
> On 9/1/2011 5:40 PM, David Banas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've got a puzzler. I'm using this HSpice deck:
>>
>> .TITLE AC Sweep vs. Transient Correlation
>>
>> .OPTION
>> + POST
>> + PROBE
>> + RUNLVL = 5
>>
>> Rin in out r=1K
>> Cout out 0 c=1pF
>> Rout out 0 10MEG
>>
>> Vin in 0 DC 1 AC 1
>>
>> .IC V(out) = 0
>>
>> .AC DEC 10 1 1G
>> .TRAN 0.05n 1u 0 0.05n UIC
>>
>> .PROBE AC V(in) V(out)
>> .PROBE TRAN V(in) V(out)
>>
>> .END
>>
>> to get both the transfer function, H(w), (.AC command) and the unit step
>> response, u(t), (.TRAN command) of a simple RC LPF.
>>
>> Then, I take the FFT of the .TRAN output and compare it to the .AC output.
>> And they match!
>>
>> I wasn't expecting a match, since all my textbooks say there's a `jw' factor
>> relating the impulse response and the step response. That is:
>>
>> U(w) = H(w)/jw
>>
>> So, when I compared the 2 spectra, I was expecting the FFT of my .TRAN
>> output to have an extra 6dB/octave roll-off, as compared to the .AC output,
>> due to the `w' in the denominator, above.
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Banas
>> Sr. Member Technical Staff
>> Altera
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