RE: noise_table question

From: Oskar Leuthold <Oskar.Leuthold_at_.....>
Date: Mon Mar 20 2006 - 09:29:10 PST
Geoffrey,
     you might also question the wisdom of linear interpolation here.
Noise generally varies as the log of the frequency, see section 4.5.4.2,
thus interpolation in the log-log domain would be more useful.
Regards
	Oskar

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-verilog-ams@eda.org 
> [mailto:owner-verilog-ams@eda.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey.Coram
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 9:18 AM
> To: VerilogAMS Reflector
> Subject: noise_table question
> 
> Section 4.5.4.3 on noise_table specifies that linear 
> interpolation is used (presumably for frequencies inside the 
> range of frequencies specified in the vector).
> 
> What happens outside the vector?
> 1) value is zero
> 2) if the first pair is (fmin,val1), then for frequencies < fmin,
>    the value is val1; similarly if (fmax,valn) is the last pair,
>    then the value is valn for frequencies > fmax.
> 
> I propose (2).
> 
> 
> Also, the LRM does not specify what a "vector" is.
> 
> -Geoffrey
> 
Received on Mon Mar 20 09:29:15 2006

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