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Harmonic distortions in an ideal sine wave

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hi

i use a ideal sine source in cadence to output a sine wave, and process it in matlab to plot it's psd, as below

this is a ideal sine wave, but there are the 3rd and 5th harmonic distortion. why?

(i use hanning window. if no window, the harmonic distortion exist yet)
 

Re: harmonic distortion

Hi

The harmonic distortion may be related to the way you are saving cadence results.
Please give more details, how are you saving cadence data for matlab processing?
 

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Re: harmonic distortion

there is no HD3 , HD5 if you use ideal sine wave in MATLAB,
the result u got probably come from some numerical , or truncation process.
 

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Re: harmonic distortion

hi analogy and Btrend
thank you

i have found the cause. i use ocnprint to output the data from cadence, and use the default precision, 6, so have truncation error. when i set precision 10, the result is correct.
 

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