Electromagnetic Modeling And Design Methodologies For Passive Components In Multilayer Ceramic Integrated Circuits

RF designers and packaging designers are facing the challenges to make electronic products with high density, high stability and high functionality. Multi-layer Ceramic Integrated Circuits (MCICs) is a technique to solve this problem. An accurate electromagnetic simulation and an effective design procedure the primary factors for the development of this technique.The topics studied in this thesis all come from a practical design which is conducted at the beginning of this study. The design follows a commonly used design procedure, called a segmentation approach.A general Stoer-Bulirsch algorithm is employed to develop a new adaptive frequency sampling scheme, called S-B AFS. This approach leads to an extra wide bandwidth rational interpolation. The proposed approach greatly improves the efficiency of the traditional AFS techniques and accelerates the electromagnetic simulation of complex microwave circuits.A new efficient S parameter extraction technique by exploiting TRL calibration is introduced in this thesis. The technique facilitates the modeling of multilayered passive circuits using the hybrid mode matching and finite element method (MM/FEM). With the proposed technique, a passive component is viewed as a series of cascade transmission line discontinuities along the direction that is perpendicular to the layer surfaces.A multi-dimensional interpolation approach exploiting S-B AFS is developed for generating a library comprised by commonly used passive components. The S-B AFS technique is used in an SM-based neuromodeling process to eliminate the overhead for preparing a neural model of a passive component.