Integrated circuits (ICs) form the heart of today's technology thanks to their prominent
features such as minimal size, reduced cost, high reliability, and low power consumption …

The ever expanding wireless and consumer electronics market necessitates the integration
of more and more multiple functions and there is a growing demand for small size, low cost …

Inductances have been widely used in the semiconductor chip technology with the intent of
extending the amplification band and compensating transmission characteristics in high …

An active inductor (AI) circuit is a widely used component in tuning circuits, filters, oscillators,
etc. These circuits offer various advantages over spiral inductors, namely less chip area …

Active Inductors are useful in reducing the large chip area typically consumed by spiral
inductors, as well as providing larger inductance values and higher quality factors that …

CMOS spiral inductors have found a broad range of applications in highspeed analog signal
processing and data communications. These applications include bandwidth enhancement …

Many Radio frequency circuits such as low noise amplifiers, voltage-controlled oscillators,
and RF filters need inductors for realization. Passive and spiral implementations of the …

This paper represents the relative differences between the previously proposed active
inductor designs. The parameters such as quality factor, power consumptions, and …

In this paper, an improved design of a high-Q factor CMOS active inductor operating in the
mid MHz frequency range is introduced. Analysis of equations has been used to gain insight …

The lack of high quality factor integrated inductors is a significant impediment to realizing
high performance Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) within conventional digital …