How to simulate bandwidth of a class E power amplifier in Cadence Spectre?

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How to simulate bandwidth of a class E power amplifier in Cadence Spectre RF?

I am trying to simulate bandwidth of a class E power amplifier (operation frequency: 433MHz) in Cadence SpectreRF.

Do you know which tool I should use to get the bandwidth graph of my PA in SpectreRF? PSS? or PAC? or anything else? Thanks!
 

SPSS ( Sweep Periodic Steady State) simulation will give you the bandwidth of your amplifier.
If you sweep the frequency, the amplifier will give you the peak power at certain frequency and then beyond that frequency (lower and upper) the output power will drop to -3dB of peak power.
These are your roughly bandwidth.
If you would, you can define this dropping as -6dB or more, all depends on you..
 

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