In this paper two R‑L network simulator configurations employing a single VDDIBA, one resistance and one grounded capacitance are presented. The first configuration is a grounded series resistor-inductor (R‑L) network simulator and the second configuration is intended for grounded parallel resister-inductor (R‑L) circuit simulation. Both the proposed circuits enjoy several beneficial features s...

On-chip parasitic inductance has become an important design issue in high speed integrated circuits. On-chip inductance may degrade on-chip signal quality, affect transmission delay, and cause additional short-circuit power dissipation. The effects of onchip inductance on the output voltage, propagation delay, and shortcircuit power of a CMOS inverter are presented in this paper. Analytic equat...

This paper investigates the design curves of class E amplifier with nonlinear capacitance for any output Q and finite dc-feed inductance. The important results are; 1) the capacitance nonlinearity strongly affects the design parameters for low Q, 2) the value of dc-feed inductance is hardly affected by the capacitance nonlinearity, and 3) the input voltage is an important parameter to design cl...

Abstract − The switched-mode second-order Class E configuration with a generalized load network including the shunt capacitance, series bondwire inductance, finite DC feed inductance and series LC circuit is analytically defined with a set of the exact design equations. Based on these equations, the required voltage and current waveforms and circuit parameters are determined for both general ca...

Polypropylene metallized capacitors are of general use in power electronics because of their reliability, their self healing capabilities, and their low price. Though the behavior of metallized coiled capacitors has been discussed, no work was done about stacked and flattened metallized capacitors. The purpose of this article is to propose a simple analytical low frequency model of stacked capa...

An original multi-layer structure is proposed for the realization of monolithic differential inductors. Compared with standard differential topologies of equal inductance, it can reduce the area occupation by more than 50% and increase the self-resonance frequency fSR up to 30%. However, because of the high resistivity of the lower metal layers, the quality factor Q decreases by 25−40% and make...

This paper introduces a new global-tier interconnect scaling scheme which ensures that inductance effects do not start dominating the overall interconnect performance. It is shown that for unscaled global lines, inductance effects increase as technology scales while for the scaling scheme proposed by ITRS [1], interconnects become extremely resistive and, while inductance effects diminish with ...

Nuclear fusion has arisen as an alternative energy to avoid carbon dioxide emissions, being the tokamak a promising nuclear fusion reactor that uses a magnetic field to confine plasma in the shape of a torus. However, different kinds of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities may affect tokamak plasma equilibrium, causing severe reduction of particle confinement and leading to plasma disruptions. In ...