Design, analysis and optimisation of monolithic inductors for RF applications

Author

Pukneva, D. ; Dodeva, G. ; Hristov, M. ; Roussel, A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electron., Tech. Univ. of Sofia, Bulgaria

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

63

Abstract

The design, analysis and optimisation of monolithic inductors on silicon (Si) substrates are discussed. Inductors with inductance values from 1 to 20 nH and quality factors up to 14 for AMS 0.35 μm CMOS and AMS 0.8 μm BiCMOS SiGe technologies are created. A custom computer-aided-design tool called ASITIC (analysis and simulation of inductors and transformers for integrated circuits) is used for the design, analysis and optimisation. Structures created in ASITIC are optimised and verified with simulations in CADENCE. The influence of quality factor of integrated inductors on the performance of radio frequency (RF) building blocks is investigated.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; Q-factor; circuit CAD; circuit optimisation; circuit simulation; inductors; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit modelling; 0.35 micron; 0.8 micron; ASITIC CAD tool; BiCMOS; CMOS; IC inductor/transformer simulation tool; RF applications; Si; SiGe; inductance values; inductor Q factor; inductor design/analysis/optimisation; integrated inductors; monolithic inductors; radio frequency building blocks; silicon substrates; substrate losses; Application software; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Design optimization; Inductance; Inductors; Q factor; Radio frequency; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 First International IEEE Symposium

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7134-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IS.2002.1042589

Filename

1042589