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Inductor value and its Q factor

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How can I measure value of an inductor and its Q value from its layout in virtuoso.


And how will that inductor be calculated ? will it be using some EM solver ? or will it be a parasitic extraction?

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  • There's an interesting paper by NXP from the CDN Live EMEA conference in 2012 which talks about using QRC for doing this extraction and comparing it with using an EM solver.

    Cadence doesn't (these days) have an EM solver for IC use; there are various companies in our connections program who provide such tools though. As the paper linked to above suggests though, you might need to use a separate EM solver - it depends.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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  • There's an interesting paper by NXP from the CDN Live EMEA conference in 2012 which talks about using QRC for doing this extraction and comparing it with using an EM solver.

    Cadence doesn't (these days) have an EM solver for IC use; there are various companies in our connections program who provide such tools though. As the paper linked to above suggests though, you might need to use a separate EM solver - it depends.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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