T-COIL NETWORK DESIGN FOR IMPROVED BANDWIDTH AND ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE IMMUNITY

摘要

An embodiment of a method to generate a circuit design comprising a T-coil network can include determining inductrance for inductors and a parasitic bridge capacitance of the T-coil network (305-340). The panasitic bridge capacitance can be compared with a load capacitance metric that depends upon parasitic capacitance of a load coupled to an output of the T-coil network (345, 355). An amount of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of the circuit design that is coupled the output of the T-coil network and/or a parameter of the inductors of the T-coil network can be selectively adjusted according to the comparison (350, 360). The circuit design, which can specify inductance of the inductors, the amount of ESD protection, and/or the width of windings of the inductors can be output.