Inductor Design and Optimization for Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuit Applications

Author

Hasani, Javad Yavand ; Kamarei, Mahmoud ; Ndagijimana, Fabien

Author_Institution

Univ. of Tehran, Tehran

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

High quality inductors and capacitors are very important in millimeter wave CMOS design. MIM capacitors have high quality and good accuracy. However the inductor design in this area is a challenge. Transmission line inductors propose better quality and less area, in comparison with spiral inductors, in sub-nH range. In this paper we have designed a shielded transmission line inductor and proposed a scalable model for it. The model parameters are calculated with full analytic closed form equations. The accuracy of this equations and performance of model have been verified with full wave simulations using MoM in ADS. The proposed model was used to optimize the geometry of an 240 pH inductor at 30 GHz frequency.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MIM devices; capacitors; inductors; integrated circuit design; millimetre wave integrated circuits; optimisation; transmission lines; CMOS design; MIM capacitors; frequency 30 GHz; millimeter wave integrated circuit design; optimization; shielded transmission line inductors; Application specific integrated circuits; Design optimization; Distributed parameter circuits; Equations; Inductors; MIM capacitors; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Solid modeling; Spirals; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394378

Filename

4394378