acezhy wrote on Aug 2nd, 2008, 3:24am: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?
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.pdfBONDW_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.