Integrated Inductor Design using ADS Momentum

Integrated Inductor Design

A common passive component in RFIC design is the integrated inductor and designers are commonly interested in the total inductance as well as the quality factor, or Q. In this tutorial you will learn how to take the layout of an inductor that was generated using Cadence and import it into ADS Momentum where you can find the inductance and Q values for that particular layout. This tutorial can also be adapted to designing integrated transformers where one is also interested in the coupling factor, k.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basic operation of Cadence and the basic operation of ADS.