This chapter first reviews the basic oneand two-port circuit elements and then highlights the basic characterization and impedance inverting property of the gyrator. To place the scope and the contents of this monograph in the right perspective, this chapter then discusses several other issues such as commercially available passive inductors and Coilcraft, difficulties in micro-miniaturization of inductors, integrated circuit spiral inductors on the chip and use of ANSYS and COMSOL software in the analysis and characterization of on-chip inductors. The chapter ends by highlighting the need for and the importance of the simulated inductors which constitute a dominating topic in this monograph.

Chapter Contents:

• Abstract
• 1.1 Prologue
• 1.2 Basic one-port circuit elements
• 1.3 Basic two-port circuit elements
• 1.3.1 The transformer
• 1.3.2 The gyrator
• 1.3.3 The two-port impedance converters and inverters
• 1.4 The pathological elements
• 1.5 Multi-terminal gyrator
• 1.6 Multiport inverters/converters
• 1.7 Commercially available inductors and Coilcraft
• 1.8 Basic difficulties in micro-miniaturization of inductors
• 1.9 Integrated inductors and transformers on the chip
• 1.10 Power gyrators
• 1.11 Use of ANSYS and COMSOL for the analysis of inductor designs
• 1.12 The need for simulated inductors
• 1.13 Concluding remarks
• References

Inspec keywords: inductors; gyrators; two-port networks

Other keywords: passive inductors; impedance inverting property; ANSYS software; integrated circuit spiral inductors; gyrator; on-chip inductors; simulated inductors; coilcraft; COMSOL software; inductor microminiaturization; two-port circuit elements

Subjects: Active filters and other active networks; Inductors and transformers