See Guan Huei, Master's Degree Candidate, Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Mazlina Esa, Associate Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
The rapid growth of the wireless market has pushed the demand for radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) toward low cost, low power consumption, and higher volume IC production. Submicron complimentary metal oxide silicon (CMOS) processes have emerged as a low-cost option for realizing RFICs operating in the 1-GHz to 10-GHz range. Most RF circuit blocks such as amplifiers, mixers, matching networks, load or tank circuits, and voltage-controlled oscillators require inductors and therefore inductor models for circuit simulation. This paper proposes an empirical model that scales over the number of turns, diameter, width, and space. The authors have produced a parameterized global and scalable planar inductor model suitable for use in SPICE format.