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Need USEFUL, PRACTICAL, and FEASIBLE procedures to design, simulate, and layout "REAL RF Transformers" using Spectre RF

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I am in need of "Useful," "Practical," and "Feasible" procedures on how to design, simulate, and layout RF Transformers using Spectre RF.

I have not seen the real-world item in the "model library" of two of the major foundaries (I cannot name them due to the NDA I have signed). Therefore, I would like someone in this forum to provide me with the above information either himself/herself, or direct me to a resource that includes "ALL" of the above pieces of information.

Unfortunately, I have not yet found a resource that meets the criteria mentioned in the Subject line above. They are mostly impractical and useless.

I look forward to hearing from someone who could address my issue.  

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  • Maybe not the answer you were looking for, but I guess you can't work around an EM simulator for the task.

    In a Company I worked for, they could start a design from a Matlab script, where they implemented some basic equations. But of course that was only a first step. Then you have to sim your structure electromagnetically, and after that you can either work with [S] or - if you want to use SpectreRF - switch to a lumped element model.

    To get the full picture, you may consider reading this:

    http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/topics/RF_engineering/da/da/kehrer_da.pdf

    It is relatively old but the basics are all there nicely covered, IMO.

    Hope this helps, even a little bit.

    M 

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  • Maybe not the answer you were looking for, but I guess you can't work around an EM simulator for the task.

    In a Company I worked for, they could start a design from a Matlab script, where they implemented some basic equations. But of course that was only a first step. Then you have to sim your structure electromagnetically, and after that you can either work with [S] or - if you want to use SpectreRF - switch to a lumped element model.

    To get the full picture, you may consider reading this:

    http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/topics/RF_engineering/da/da/kehrer_da.pdf

    It is relatively old but the basics are all there nicely covered, IMO.

    Hope this helps, even a little bit.

    M 

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