An Efficient Technique for Substrate Coupling Parasitic Extraction with Application to RF/Microwave Spiral Inductors (RESEARCH NOTE)

Authors

1 Center for Wireless Communications, University of Waterloo

2 VLSI Research Group, University of Waterloo

3 Electerical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran

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.

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