Planar Spiral Inductors, Planar Antennas and Embedded Planar Transformers: Spice-Based Design and Performance Evaluation for Wireless Communications

This book presents a novel, automated, accurate and unified scheme to design and determine the performance characteristics of standalone planar, spiral inductors and multiple coupled planar spiral inductors (as in embedded transformers), for RF/microwave MMIC designers. The author demonstrates with a set of analysis/design examples a novel scheme that exploits judiciously the existing transmission theory and concepts, organizing and condensing available, scattered information/knowledge about planar spiral inductor, embedded planar transformer and planar antenna design and performance evaluation, into one coherent and unified electronic circuit model easily used by radio frequency electronic circuit engineers. A dedicated chapter contains an exhaustive (19) set of design examples.

• Presents a bottom-up scheme, starting with Maxwell’s equations of classical electrodynamics and transmission line theory (Telegrapher’s equation), specifically microstrips;
• Demonstrates design of standalone planar, spiral inductors and multiple coupled planar spiral inductors;
• Includes a set of ready-to-use, C executables (for both Linux and Windows), that accept predefined input parameters for each of the sub-circuits discussed and generate SPICE netlists for the equivalent electrical circuit;
• Automates execution of multi-step design calculations to guarantee their accuracy and reliability.

Amal Banerjee had his high school and a small part of his college education in Kolkata India. He then got admitted to the University of Texas at Austin Texas, USA, where he completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics (with highest honors), and then transferred to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the same University where he completed a MSE (Master of Science in Engineering) and all his course work for a PhD. During his stay in the USA, he has worked as consulting engineer at a number of high technology companies as Silicon Laboratories (www.silabs.com), SMC Networks(www.smc.com), VI Technology (www.vitechnology.com), Object Reservoir Inc., Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin Texas(MCC) etc., He has also worked as a Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley California and Brookhaven National Laboratories, Islip New York. He is now the Engineering Manager at Analog Electronics.