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US 2012/0060135 A1Published application
Integrated Circuit Transformer Devices for On-Chip Millimeter-Wave Applications
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDavid Goren, Ullrich R. Pfeiffer, Benny Sheinman, Shlomo Shlafman
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Abstract
Methods are provided for building integrated circuit transformer devices having compact and optimized architectures for use in MMW (millimeter-wave) applications. The integrated circuit transformer devices have universal and scalable architectures that can be used as templates or building blocks for constructing various types of on-chip devices for millimeter-wave applications.
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A computer implemented method for integrated ciruit design and simulation, comprising:
- generating a virtual model of a circuit using a model for each component of the circuit, wherein at least one model comprises a lumped equivalent circuit representation of an integrated circuit transformer structure having stacked primary and secondary conductors over a groud planewith, in which conductor length is a user-specified parameter;
- performing a simulation of the circuit based on one or more user-specified parameter values for conductor length;
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- presenting results of the simulation.
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