This review of design principles for implementation of a spiral inductor in a silicon integrated circuit fabrication process summarizes prior art in this field. In addition, a fast and physics-based inductor model is exploited to put the results contributed by many different groups in various technologies and achieved over the past eight years into perspective. Inductors are compared not only b...

This paper presents the design of a multilevel pyramidically wound symmetric (MPS) inductor structure. Being multilevel, the MPS inductor achieves high inductance to area ratio and hence occupies smaller silicon area. The symmetric inductor is realized by winding the metal trace of the spiral coil down and up in a pyramidal manner exploiting the multilevel VLSI interconnects technology. Closed ...

This paper presents the use of a new structure of active inductor named cascoded flippedactive inductor (CASFAI) in a T-type high-pass tunable output matching network of a class-E RF power amplifier (RFPA) to control the output power and enhance the efficiency. The designed CASFAI behaves as an inductor in the frequency range of 0-6.9 GHz, and has reached to a maximum quality factor of 4406, in...

Along the advances of wide-bandgap power devices, pulsewidth modulation (PWM) converters are developing toward higher switching frequencies in recent years. Accurate estimation high-frequency losses magnetic components, core loss particular, has been a challenge for PWM converters. While conventional approaches based on Steinmetz equation lose accuracy excitations, “loss map” approach proposed ...

LNA with Current Reuse and Zero-Pole Cancellation Chunbao Ding, Wanrong Zhang, Dongyue Jin, Hongyun Xie, Pei Shen, Liang Chen, School of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China Abstract—A low power cascode SiGe BiCMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) with current reuse and zero-pole cancellation is presented for ultra-wideband (UWB) appli...

The paper details on-chip inductor optimization for a reconfigurable continuous-time delta-sigma (Δ-Σ) modulator based radio-frequency analog-to-digital converter. Inductor optimisation enables the Δ-Σ modulator with Q enhanced LC tank circuits employing a single high Q-factor on-chip inductor and lesser quantizer levels thereby reducing the circuit complexity for excess loop delay, power dissi...

—A method is developed to use a single set of two-dimensional numerical optimizations of inductor winding shapes to simply calculate the optimal winding configuration for any design on the same core without repeating the computationally intensive numerical optimization. For transformer windings, the results are consistent with previous one-dimensional optimizations, but for inductor windings, a...

Abs t rac t -The phys ica l s ize of inductors in resonant converters was examined i n terms o f inductor t o transformer s i z e rat io . F o l l o w i n g the general d i scuss ion o f the i s s u e , the inductor s i z e i n ser i e s resonant DC-DC converter i s examined i n deta i l . It i s shown that the inductor t o transformer s i z e rat io i s a funct ion of the peak v o l t a g e o ...