Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits

The recent popularity of RFID tags has generated research for accompanying miniature, low-power reader circuits. This work illustrates the design of RF complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process compatible spiral inductors. Several simulators such as AWR Microwave Officereg, SONNETreg,...

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Main Authors: Uddin, Md. Jasim, Nordin, Anis Nurashikin, Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn, Reaz, Mamun Ibn, Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni, Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/3716/1/15.pdf
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author Uddin, Md. Jasim
Nordin, Anis Nurashikin
Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn
Reaz, Mamun Ibn
Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni
Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul
author_facet Uddin, Md. Jasim
Nordin, Anis Nurashikin
Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn
Reaz, Mamun Ibn
Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni
Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul
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description The recent popularity of RFID tags has generated research for accompanying miniature, low-power reader circuits. This work illustrates the design of RF complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process compatible spiral inductors. Several simulators such as AWR Microwave Officereg, SONNETreg, and finite element program CST were used to provide its S21 and S31 transmission characteristics, approximate and finalized design layout values respectively. This design utilized Silterra 0.18 mum RF-CMOS technology process parameters. Simulation results indicate that inductors core diameters must be adequately large (more than 100 mum) to ensure high quality factor characteristics and its conductor spacing should be minimal to obtain larger per unit area inductive value. The proposed design methodology optimizes the conductor width of inductors to allow alignment of the peak quality factor with the circuit's operating frequency, thereby enhancing the input/output matching characteristics and S-parameter extraction in the GHz region.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:37162011-09-23T00:58:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3716/ Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits Uddin, Md. Jasim Nordin, Anis Nurashikin Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn Reaz, Mamun Ibn Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul TK7885 Computer engineering The recent popularity of RFID tags has generated research for accompanying miniature, low-power reader circuits. This work illustrates the design of RF complementary metal- oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process compatible spiral inductors. Several simulators such as AWR Microwave Officereg, SONNETreg, and finite element program CST were used to provide its S21 and S31 transmission characteristics, approximate and finalized design layout values respectively. This design utilized Silterra 0.18 mum RF-CMOS technology process parameters. Simulation results indicate that inductors core diameters must be adequately large (more than 100 mum) to ensure high quality factor characteristics and its conductor spacing should be minimal to obtain larger per unit area inductive value. The proposed design methodology optimizes the conductor width of inductors to allow alignment of the peak quality factor with the circuit's operating frequency, thereby enhancing the input/output matching characteristics and S-parameter extraction in the GHz region. 2009-04 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3716/1/15.pdf Uddin, Md. Jasim and Nordin, Anis Nurashikin and Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn and Reaz, Mamun Ibn and Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni and Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul (2009) Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits. In: 2009 IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED), 3 Apr 2009, Boise, ID, USA. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4816153&tag=1
spellingShingle TK7885 Computer engineering
Uddin, Md. Jasim
Nordin, Anis Nurashikin
Ibrahimy, Muhammad Ibn
Reaz, Mamun Ibn
Zulkifli, Tun Zainal Azni
Hasan, Muhammad Asfarul
Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits
title Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits
title_full Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits
title_fullStr Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits
title_full_unstemmed Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits
title_short Design and simulation of RF-CMOS spiral inductors for ISM band RFID reader circuits
title_sort design and simulation of rf cmos spiral inductors for ism band rfid reader circuits
topic TK7885 Computer engineering
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3716/1/15.pdf
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