gangs,
I am running .noise analysis in cadence's spectre. Two methods display the simulation results: method 1. plot equivalent input noise. This can be done by: locate spectre simulator menu-->results-->direct plot-->equivalent input noise. A figure will pop out. Then go to calculator's RMS function. The final result is the RMS noise over the bandwidth.
method 2. directly display input referred noise. This can be done by: locate spectre simulator menu-->results-->plot-->noise summary.
The problem is that the result from method 1 is much smaller than method 2. So, in which method the result is accurate.
Attached figure 1 is the oTA simulation circuit
Attached figure 2 is the plot result from method 1. The MAX value is ~4.2uV/sqrt(Hz) at 1Hz, the value is 120nV/sqrt(Hz)@100kHz.
The calculation result by caculator's RMS funciton is 127.9nV/sqrt(Hz) over 1Hz to 100kHz
However, the simulation result from method 2 show that the input referred noise is 40.5uV/sqrt(Hz) over 1~100kHz bandwindth.