Spiral Inductor Assistant for Sonnet
Spiral Inductor Assistant for Sonnet is an add-on tool for Sonnet Professional, which is available to our foundry partners as a part of our consulting services.
Based on a pre-defined technology template file, the user only needs to define a few parameters to get a fully functional simulation model of the inductor. The simulation model can be opened in the Sonnet Professional editor and analyzed with a few mouse clicks, to obtain key parameters like inductance, Q factor, series resistance and substrate parasitics. With the appropriate Sonnet options, a broad band SPICE model can be extracted. A Sonnet equation file is included to plot typical RFIC inductor parameters in the Sonnet data display.
Key Features
- Efficiently generate layouts for single ended and differential inductor geometries, ready for EM analysis
- Single or multiple parallel layer(s) for spiral and underpass/overpass
- Estimated inductance read-out while geometry parameters are changed
- Read in technology information from existing Sonnet simulation models
- Write a full, complete Sonnet simulation model for accurate EM verification of the inductor,
ready for immediate analysis - Full wave EM analysis in Sonnet Professional provides accurate, calibrated S-parameters
- Plot L, Q, series resistance, substrate resistance and capacitance from the Sonnet results
- Extract a broad band SPICE model for Spectre and other time domain simulators for the inductor
- Available for Windows and Linux platforms
Related Documents
Spiral Inductor Assistant Quickstart Guide
Spiral Inductor Assistant Datasheet
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Spiral Inductor Assistant is only available to our foundry partners as a part of our consulting services.
The public version is no longer available for download.
