A method of predicting the electromagnetic noise emitted by a digital circuit
on
an integrated circuit is disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment,
the output of each digital circuit element in the digital circuit is considered
as a bit stream. All of these bits streams are, in aggregate, considered as a noise
source that is characterized by a power spectral density, S(). The effect
of the noise source on an analog circuit can be modeled as a lumped circuit, wherein
the lumped circuit contains a noise source that represents the digital circuit;
a multi-port network, also referred to as a lumped element, that represents that
portion of the substrate between the digital circuit and the analog circuit; and
a multi-port network that represents the analog circuit.