Hi everybody,

I am trying to design an LC-VCO using a bondwire inductor. I wander if anybody who is experienced in modeling the bond-wire inductor could recommend papers/books on this topic? And are there good softwares on modeling it?

Any answers will be appreciated!

acezhy wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2008, 3:24am:

In Agilent ADS, there are bondwire models. These are available also in RFDE.

See Chapter 4: Passive RF Circuit Components of the followings.

http://eesof.tm.agilent.com/docs/adsdoc2005A/pdf/ccdist.pdf

BONDW_Shape (Philips/TU Delft Bondwire Parameterized Shape)
BONDW_Usershape (Philips/TU Delft Bondwire Model with User-DefinedShape)
BONDW1 to BONDW50 (Philips/TU Delft Bondwires Model)

If you need accurate analysis, I recommend you to use Ansoft's HFSS software to model bonding wire including package.