• DocumentCode
    2027148
  • Title

    Layout design of on-chip transformer with uniform variation of coil widths

  • Author

    Hsu, Heng-Ming ; Lai, Sih-Han ; Tseng, Chien-Wen ; Fu, Guan-Lin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Chung Hsing Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    Sept. 29 2009-Oct. 1 2009
  • Firstpage
    1199
  • Lastpage
    1202
  • Abstract
    A novel layout of variable width transformer is proposed to minimize the metal resistance in this study. Compared with reported paper (Hsu and Tseng, 2007), the sophisticated approach obtains a local minimum by equalizing the width ratio of primary and secondary coils. Two on-chip transformers with identical self inductance and chip area are fabricated to verify the proposed algorithm in CMOS technology. Measurement results demonstrate that the improvement of metal resistance approximates to the value of 10.36 %.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; coils; electric resistance; inductance; integrated circuit design; transformers; CMOS technology; chip area; coil width; layout design; metal resistance; on-chip transformer; self inductance; variable width transformer; Circuit stability; Coils; Conductivity; Current distribution; Equations; Inductance; Integrated circuit technology; Radio frequency; Robust stability; Time to market; Local minimum; and variable coil width; on-chip transformer; uniform variation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2009. EuMC 2009. European
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4748-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5296524