A novel and useful millimeter-wave digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) that achieve a tuning range greater than 10% and fine frequency resolution less than 1 MHz. Switched metal capacitors are distributed across a passive resonator for tuning the oscillation frequency. To obtain sub-MHz frequency resolution, tuning step attenuation techniques are used that exploit an inductor and a transforme...

The series capacitor buck converter is a dc-dc converter topology that uniquely merges a switched capacitor circuit and a multiphase buck converter. Many of the challenges faced by conventional buck converters are overcome by this converter topology. This enables efficient, high frequency operation and significantly smaller solution size. The series capacitor buck converter has beneficial chara...

A new high step-up dc/dc converter is presented for renewable energy applications. The construction implementation of a dual inductor and more than one voltage multiplier cells, to obtain large step-up voltage gain, two capacitors has been placed charged during the switch-off period, energy accumulated in the dual inductor which increases the voltage gain. The MMF energy in the leakage inductan...

A new integrated magnetic full wave dc/dc converter1 that provides flexible transformer design by incorporating an independent output inductor winding is introduced. The transformer is implemented on a traditional three-leg magnetic core. The inductor winding can be separately designed to control the output current ripple. The cross-sectional area of the inductor core leg can be reduced dramati...

In this paper, an integrated passive device (IPD) inductor modeling is demonstrated. The IPD technology is a system in package (SiP) solution where passive devices with high quality can be fabricated on a chip and then connect with another circuit chip by using flip-chip micro-bump bonding. For an RF circuit simulation, the IPD inductor model is built and verified from the measurement results. ...

This paper investigates a current mode active inductor. In the proposed active inductor, three current mirrors have been connected to each other to realize the negative feedback. This active conductor has a two layer transistor structure. A 4.257 GHz, 1.2-V power supply non-inductive LC negative resistor oscillator, base on two of the proposed active inductors, is demonstrated. Keywords-active ...

In wireless communication systems, passive elements including tunable capacitors and inductors often need high quality factor ( -factor). In this paper, we present the design and modeling of a novel high -factor tunable capacitor with large tuning range and a high -factor vertical planar spiral inductor implemented in microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. Different from conventional ...

The inductor is a substance that is found in the embryo. It fu..11ctions to evoke cellular proliferation and cellular differentiation. The inductor is more active in some areas of the embryo than in other areas. These active induction areas may be called induction fields. The inductor vvas dis covered in the embryo. Spemann, Vo gt , and Na.ngold made significant contributions to the field of ex...

On-chip inductors are widely used in many modern RFICs. Realization of high-Q inductors often requires extra back-end processing and costly chip area. Accurate modeling and thorough optimization of the inductor are required for best performance. In this paper we present a scalable broadband inductor model. The model supports multiple symmetric and asymmetric inductor layouts and has been incorp...