Efficient modeling of substrate eddy currents for integrated spiral inductor design automation

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1823-1826

  Nieuwoudt, Arthur ^a   Massoud, Yehia ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; IMAGE THEORY; SPIRAL INDUCTOR; SUBSTRATE EDDY CURRENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EDDY CURRENTS;

EID: 33845660843     PISSN: 15483746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2005.1594477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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