Time domain noise analysis

摘要

A circuit simulator is provided for simulating the operation of a circuit in the time domain by accounting for the physical fluctuation (noise) in the time domain. Each of the components (14) in the matrix (10) has associated therewith an active current generator which can be simulated by the simulator in the time domain. In parallel with this active current generator, a stochastic (random) process current generator is provided. This stochastic current generator for each element will utilize a Gaussian random number generator (with 0 mean and a variance equal to 1) that is scaled by the standard deviation (square root of the variance) of the physical noise process that exists within the device. Additionally, this Gaussian random number generator is scaled by a factor that accounts for the time step or discrete operation of the noise simulator.