An efficient technique for substrate coupling parasitic extraction with application to RF/microwave spiral inductors

Author

Masoumi, Nasser ; Elmasry, Mohamed I. ; Safavi-Naeini, Safieddin

Author_Institution

VLSI Res. Group, Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

153

Lastpage

156

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient modeling method based on the microstrip lines theory for the coupling between a substrate backplane and a device contact. We derive simple closed-form formulas for rapid extraction of substrate parasitics. We use these formulas to model spiral inductors as important substrate-noise sources in mixed-signal systems. The proposed model is verified for the frequencies up to 35 GHz, and is easily adaptable to CAD tools

Keywords

MMIC; circuit CAD; inductors; integrated circuit modelling; integrated circuit noise; microstrip lines; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; CAD tools; RF/microwave spiral inductors; closed-form formulas; microstrip lines theory; mixed-signal systems; model; model verification; modeling method; spiral inductors; substrate backplane/device contact coupling; substrate coupling parasitic extraction; substrate parasitics extraction; substrate-noise sources; Backplanes; Circuit simulation; Coupling circuits; Inductors; Microstrip; Microwave theory and techniques; Radio frequency; Semiconductor device measurement; Spirals; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, 2000. ICM 2000. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

964-360-057-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2000.916434

Filename

916434