Method of moment reaction analysis in stripline circuits

At high frequencies, great care must be taken with physical layout and interconnects in order to minimize the parasitics. This often means minimizing the number of vias by using embedded passives. Furthermore, whereas circuit designs and layouts utilize a two-dimensional concept at present, novel three-dimensional circuit design concepts must be adopted in future in order to minimize real estate use and achieve low inductance circuit designs. An important enabling technology for the realization of such systems is an electromagnetic modeling tool capable of providing the computational efficiency necessary for design iteration in a three-dimensional conductor layout. In this paper, a novel full-wave simulator is first discussed and then employed in the study of coupling in a stripline structure