In high-frequency circuit design, performance is often limited by the quality
of the passive components available for a particular process. Specifically, spiral
inductors can be a major bottle-neck for Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCOs),
Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNAs), mixers, etc. For designers to correctly optimize a circuit
using a spiral inductor, several frequency-domain...
A new comprehensive wide-band compact modeling methodology for
single-ended spiral inductors and differential spiral inductors is presented. The
new modeling methodology creates an equivalent circuit model consisting of
frequency-independent circuit elements for use in circuit simulators. A fast automated
extraction procedure is developed for determining the circuit element
values from...