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Spiral Inductor Assistant Professional

Create Sonnet models for single ended & differential inductors in seconds

Spiral Inductor Assistant for Sonnet

Spiral Inductor Assistant for Sonnet is an add-on tool for Sonnet Professional,

Based on a pre-defined technology template file, the user only needs to define a few parameters to get a fully functional simulation model of the inductor. The simulation model can be opened in the Sonnet Professional editor and analyzed with a few mouse clicks, to obtain key parameters like inductance, Q factor, series resistance and substrate parasitics. With the appropriate Sonnet options, a broad band SPICE model can be extracted. A Sonnet equation file is included to plot typical RFIC inductor parameters in the Sonnet data display.

Key Features

	Efficiently generate layouts for various single ended and differential inductor geometries, ready for EM analysis
	Single or multiple parallel layer(s) for spiral and underpass/overpass
	Estimated inductance read-out while geometry parameters are changed
	Read in technology information from existing Sonnet simulation models
	Write a full, complete Sonnet simulation model for accurate EM verification of the inductor, ready for immediate analysis
	Full wave EM analysis in Sonnet Professional provides accurate, calibrated S-parameters (Sonnet Professional license required)
	Plot L, Q, series resistance, substrate resistance and capacitance from the Sonnet results (Sonnet license required)
	Extract a broad band SPICE model for Spectre and other time domain simulators for the inductor (Sonnet license required)
	Available for Windows and Linux platforms

Spiral Inductor Assistant Pro

The download includes a time limited evaluation copy which expires 30. June 2010, Quickstart Guide, examples and Sonnet equation file

[1.2.0 Professional for Windows - Evaluation - Click here to download]

[1.2.0 Professional for Linux - Evaluation - Click here for download]

New in version 1.2 (April 2009):

	More accurate inductance calculation for 4-sided inductors with small center diameters
	Added second method of inductance estimation [1], readout now shows both values
	Added inductance estimation for differential inductors

[1] Inductor estimate uses "current sheet" and "modified Wheeler" equations from:
S. S. Mohan, et al., “Simple Accurate Expressions for Planar Spiral Inductances”, IEEE JSSC, vol. 34, pp. 1419-1424, Oct. 1999.

Spiral Inductor Assistant for Sonnet

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