Modeling and analysis of integrated spiral inductors for RF system-in-package

• Published in: Proceedings 2000. Design Automation Conference. (IEEE Cat. No.00CH37106) pp. 211 - 216
• Main Authors: Minqing Liu, Dai, W.W.-M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2000
• Subjects: Capacitance; Circuits; Global Positioning System; Inductance; Inductors; Microstrip; Radio frequency; Silicon; Spirals; System-on-a-chip
• ISBN: 9780780359734; 0780359739
• DOI: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2000.835098

In this paper, a fast efficient Method of Moments (MoM) based on a new subdomain partitioning technique is presented for rapidly extracting the distributed capacitance and inductance of spiral inductors. By using this approach, the analytical formula of Green's function for multi-layer substrates is obtained through the prioritized wave-tracing method. The computing time is much faster than the state-of-the-art capacitance and inductance solvers, such as FMMS. Good agreement between numerical results and measurement data is shown to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed new method.