At 60 GHz and above, a badly designed inductor or a lossy transmission line will destroy your circuit. Voinigescu dedicates over 100 pages to on-chip passives. This includes:
Anyone searching for a high-frequency integrated circuits PDF is often stuck trying to design a 100 pH inductor; Voinigescu provides the EM simulation guidelines.
While not the full PDF, Google Books offers a substantial preview (~20% of the book). This is useful for checking specific equations or references before buying.
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Recommendation: Buy the Cambridge eBook or borrow via your university. The time you waste hunting for a clean free PDF is worth more than the $70 price tag.
The book is structured to guide the reader from fundamental device physics to complex system-level design. It is roughly divided into three major sections:
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