[SI-LIST] Re: resend - Specctraquest model: mounted inductance

  • From: "Grasso, Charles" <Charles.Grasso@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'bart.bouma@xxxxxxxxx'" <bart.bouma@xxxxxxxxx>,"'larry.smith@xxxxxxx'" <larry.smith@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:55:40 -0600

Why not have a sample measured by GigaTest and
have the equivalent model generated. ?

That should answer any performance questions!!.

Best Regards
Charles Grasso
Senior Compliance Engineer
Echostar Communications Corp.
Tel:  303-706-5467
Fax: 303-799-6222
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Bouma [mailto:bart.bouma@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:41 AM
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Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: resend - Specctraquest model: mounted inductance
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Larry,
I'm involved in X2Y for almost 2 years now.
My impression of  X2Y is that they were and are very willing - maybe even 
eager -  to share every technical detail with everybody. Patents did go
through and still run. (As you maybe know, Yageo/Phycomp is 
a licensee of X2Y).
Back to the discussion:
=> " .. one of the responses is low and flat over a large frequency range, 
indicating a lot of insertion loss. .... .... , but no DC current will 
flow."
You're absolutely right, this measurement shows that there will be minimum 
crosstalk between two powerplanes. We noticed the same high-frequency 
performance for this attachment mode and the A&B shunt mode. In the latter 
both Y-caps are tied together, i.e. connected in parallel.

=> The intrinsic ESL of a 0306 is indeed about 1/3 that of a standard 0603 
cap. We measured aprox 180-200 pH for our 0306-220nF and 0306-470nF. I
noticed a lower ESR too, but not 1/3 that of a normal geometry 
capacitor. I tend to say about 2/3 of it. But it strongly depends on 
internal structure etc.
As you mentioned, mounting inductance is very important. It easily can 
dominate the total inductance.
An experience from my former job (dev. TV and Satellite tuners):  for some 
types of tuners we were using pads in vias, until our PCB-supplier forced 
us to stop using this. We encountered big problems after positioning the 
vias "far" away from the capacitor pads, due to the increased mounting 
inductance.
Sometimes we had to use 2 or even more vias.
The use of multiple vias is also valid for the X2Y ground terminals. One 
via at each gnd terminal, thus one at each side of the X2Y, improves the 
insertion loss performance by more than 15 dB, i.e. much more than can be 
expected from just paralleling two vias! One would expect a theoretically 
improvement of 6dB.
X2Y describes it as follows: the X2Y changes from a series device (like a 
standard MLCC) into a device that is parallel to the powerplanes!

Please look also at  following App.Notes at : www.x2y.com / The Technology 
/ Application Notes.
App. Note #1001: this note shows the above mentioned effect of connecting 
one or two grounds.
App. Note #1006: discusses Circuit Configurations.

When decoupling capacitors are used in a 1 Ohm or lower environment like a 
PDS, is it useful then to measure these caps in a circuit  with a 1 Ohm 
reference impedance?  Like the way Istvan Novak did ("Measuring milliOhms 
and PicoHenries in Power Distribution Networks" presented at 
DesignCon2000). In this paper he is a.o. describing a method to lower the 
reference impedance to 0.1 Ohm by doing a 0.1 Ohm through connect 
calibration i.s.o. using the system's 50 Ohm. Is there anything that 
speaks against measuring in a 50 Ohm system, and calculate the Insertion 
Loss back for a 1 Ohm system? Assuming the VNA's dynamic range is 
sufficient.

I read the ECTC_2001 and ECTC_2002 papers some time ago, and looked 
through them again. 
ESR increasing past series resonance, I can understand this. I assume this 
is caused by the skin-effect.
What I don't see, how does the inductance decrease? What's the mechanism?
But this phenomenon is indeed ideal to suppress the "anti" resonances. 
Sometimes parasitics are useful!
Hi Q-caps (low ESR caps) do show sharp and high parallel resonance peaks, 
which is unwanted. On the other hand high ESR caps are unwanted too. Lower
inductance is of course the best to avoid, or at least to 
minimize,such resonances. For this reason a lot of people are using 
capacitor arrays which exhibit lower loop inductance - including mounting 
inductance - when paralleling two capacitors.
I noticed you mentioning the mounting impedance in the transmission line 
model in fig.3 of the ECTC_2002_caps.pdf document (R-mount and L-mount).

This brings me back to my original post: is there a method to extract the 
mounting inductance for this X2Y?
Can the following method be justified?
We are able to measure the intrinsic inductance of the X2Y in our 
3-terminal ICM-fixture, this fixture can be de-embedded by a 
TRL-calibration. Say we find a value "ESL-intrinsic".
When we subtract this intrinsic value from the inductance value we find on 
the pcboard (ESL-pcb) as described in the document mentioned in the former 
mail (X2YMLCC.pdf), do we then get the inductance associated with 
mounting?
For the PCB value will show the part's own inductance together with the 
pcb's (mounting) inductance.
Thus: ESL-mount = ESL-pcb minus  ESL-intrinsic .
This must then be done for all attachment modes, I suppose.

best regards,
Bart Bouma
Appl. Eng.
www.yageo.com



Bart - thanks for setting me straight on the X2Y cap.  The X2Y publication
has much more detailed information than what they were giving out a few
years ago.  Perhaps the patents went through..?  I can see now that the two
reference terminals can be treated as a "feed through" capacitor.  The other
two terminals are isolated capacitors to the "through" terminals. There are
several ways to hook up this capacitor, which will give several 
impedance responses.  The measured responses are shown in figure 14 and 
the
simulated responses are shown in figure 16.  Note that one of the 
responses
is low and flat over a large frequency range, indicating a lot of 
insertion
loss.  That will be true if hooked up in that configuration, but no DC 
current
will flow through in that case.

Another way to hook up the X2Y cap is with both independent capacitor 
terminals to the Vdd plane and both reference terminals to the Gnd plane. In
this configuration, it behaves just like a normal decoupling capacitor. I
believe this is the way in which you intend to use it.  It has an inductance
advantage over a normal 2 terminal cap in that there are 4 
paths
for the current to go in and out.  Actually, you can do almost the same 
thing
with a two terminal capacitor if you use 2 vias per cap pad, 4 vias in 
all.
This makes a lot of sense if you have a reverse geometry (i.e. 0306), low 
inductance
capacitor.  The intrinsic ESL and ESR of an 0306 cap is about 1/3 that of 
an 0603 cap.
Unless you pay very close attention to your vias and pads, most of the
inductance is in the mount and very little is in the capacitor 
itself.

Several capacitor manufactures make capacitors with 8 terminals.  There 
are just
two sets of plates with 4 terminals per set of plates, arranged in a
checkerboard pattern of + and -.  It has even less inductance than the
previously mentioned caps.  The downside is that you have to put 8 vias 
under
the cap and solder the small structures.  If you already have blind vias, 
this might
not be too bad, but 8 through hole vias will really chew up wiring 
channels.
Anyway, the total mounted inductance of a capacitor is a stronger function
of via and pad design that it is of cap design.  If you want to decrease 
mounted
inductance, add more vias.

You have a nice 50 Ohm fixture for measurement of capacitors.  Yes, I 
would call
that a transfer impedance measurement.  But, you are measuring the capacitor
in a 50 Ohm environment.  The power plane environment where the capacitors
are normally used is more like 1 Ohm and capacitors behave differently.
When caps are mounted with low inductance vias and 
pads to PCB power planes that are near the
surface of the PCB and separated by thin dielectric (2 to 4 mils), they
exhibit very interesting resonances.  The ESR goes up and the intrinsic 
inductance
goes down as the frequency increases past series resonance.  This is a 
very nice
property because the anti-resonance (parallel resonance with another 
capacitor
or power plane) is greatly diminished by this mechanism.  Please see our 
ectc_2001.pdf
and ectc_2002_caps.pdf papers for more details.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/files/Signal%20Integrity%20Documents/P
ublished%20SI%20Papers%20from%20Sun/

regards,
Larry Smith
Sun Microsystems

Bart Bouma wrote:
> 
> Larry,
> thanks for your very detailed answer. I like the Transfer Impedance 
> approach. You are right when mentioning that the pcb will have 4 vias 
> (Vdd1, Vdd2 and 2 gnd vias)
> I will concentrate on the X2Y: it's the most interesting three (or 4 )
> terminal capacitor.
> I'm afraid that your idea on how the model of the X2Y looks like is more
> or less based on the feeedthrough capacitor.
> The X2Y is not a feedthrough capacitor, e.g. it has no DC-connection 
between the the "terminations" Vdd1 and
> Vdd2.
> It should be used as a bypass or shunt component, providing a low 
> impedance path to ground over a broad frequency range. Compare this to 
> what you wrote: "If on the other hand, we obtained -120 dB "transfer 
> impedance" by keeping the series L and R small and by having a very 
> low capacitive impedance (high capacitance), we have a DUT that may be 
> able to conduct the 100 amps from vdd1 to vdd2".
> The good insertion loss figures that the X2Y shows are not because it 
has
> large LLL's, but because of a very low impedance of the capacitor to 
> ground, and the X2Y is very well capable of passing by large currents.
The
> X2Y doesn't carry DC-current.
> 
> The X2Y described simply: the X2Y capacitor consists of 2 capacitors 
> in one package. These two caps can be assumed as connected in series, 
> and have a common centre node (the 2 ground connections) formed by two 
> side-terminations (so from the outside, it looks like a feedthru, but 
> it behaves quite differently). This is the key to the X2Y's low 
> inductance: currents flow in opposite directions and magnetic fields 
> cancel. This has been shown with careful placement of 2 standard 
> capacitors in a paper by University of Missouri-Rolla and even in a 
> patent by Dell. The X2Y is in fact the same, but optimized and 
> integrating the 2 caps in one shielded package.
> 
> A third capacitor is formed by the 2 above mentioned capacitors in
series.
> This results in 2 line to ground capacitors (2 Y-caps) and 1 line to
line
> capacitor (1 X-cap).
> In other terms: 1 cap between Vdd1 and Vdd2, and 2 caps placed between 
> Vdd1 & Gnd1, and Vdd2 & Gnd2.
> 
>                vdd1 o
>                     L
>                       R
>                    ---
>                gnd1---------gnd2
>                    .-.
>                     L
>                       R
>                vdd2 o
> 
> To be complete: here is a link to a paper that shows the internal 
> structure and the X2Y model: 
> http://www.x2y.com/cube/x2y.nsf/(files)/InternalModel060303.pdf/$FILE/
> InternalModel060303.pdf
> 
> We have been carrying out S21 Insertion Loss measurements on a small
pcb,
> this 2-sided pcb had one large ground plane at the bottom, the 
> top-side consists of a 50 Ohm microstrip line, with two smaller ground 
> planes at each side of it. Multiple vias conected the top-ground 
> planes with the bottom ground plane. The pcb was mounted in a Wiltron 
> Universal fixture, and the X2Y soldered on the 50 Ohm microstrip line 
> and grounded at the ground planes. See for a more detailed document on 
> this the link below. Port 1 and port 2 connected to the same ground 
> plane and to the same 50 Ohm line, but not at the same position.
> Parallel to this the X2Y, which is located between the 50 Ohm line and
> ground.
> The X2Y was measured in 2 modes: 1 Y-cap only (your Vdd1 and Gnd1
> terminals open) and both Y-caps connected.
> You wrote:
> " If you want to obtain a model for the capacitor to be used in SQPI
> simulation, you would have to make a "transfer impedance" measurement by
> connecting both port 1 and port 2 of the VNA to the vdd2
> and gnd2 terminals of the DUT and leave the vdd1 and gnd1 terminals 
open. "
> I think that what I described is comparable to your "transfer 
> Impedance" measurement.  Do you agree?. See also the link below.
> ? But how to differentiate the intrinsic inductance from the mounting
> inductance ?
> 
> Re. to S11 and S22: when a well defined fixture is used, I believe 
> that these two parameters can be measured quite well upto high 
> frequencies.
> Condition: a well done calibration.
> But I am aware that by the limitations of the Vector Network Analyzer 
low
> impedances, or high impedances (i.e. far away from the 50Ohm of the 
> system), can't be measured in this way. I think the limit lies at 
> aprox 100 milliOhm or at -48dB.
> 
> Larry, one last issue: you mentioned folowing:
> " This measurement will be far different than the "insertion loss" 
> measurements given by the 3 terminal cap manufactures.  One 
> measurement has to do with power going "through" a component, the 
> other measurement has to do with power getting "past" a component on 
> highly conductive power planes."
> 
> The "through" measurement refer to feedthrough capacitors, I assume. 
> But is this "past" measurement not identical to your transfer
measurement?
> 
> When using higly conductive power planes, one can assume that both 
> ports are connected to the same power planes. Or do I overlook 
> something? I think I do understand your S21 measurement and how you 
> extract the Z21 transfer impedance from the S21 data.
> I think that the measurement method I described, i.e. the X2Y on a small
> pcb,  is identical to your transfer measurement.
> What do you think?
> We don't carry out the S21 to Z21 conversion. Just showing the S21
> Insertion Loss data.
> 
> Here a link to measurements we did on the X2Y mounted on this pcb: it 
> shows clearly the better performance of the X2Y over standard MLCCs. 
> The X2Y performs at least 10dB better - at frequencies beyond its 
> resonance frequency - than 2 standard MLCCs connected in parallel. 
> http://www.x2y.com/cube/x2y.nsf/(files)/X2YMLCC.pdf/$FILE/X2YMLCC.pdf
> 
> Thanks again,
> kind regards,
> Bart Bouma
> appl. eng.
> www.yageo.com
> 
> 
============================================================================
=
> 
> Bart - To directly answer your question about mounting inductance, I 
> believe you will want to treat the mount as if the capacitor is a 4 
> terminal device.  As I understand it, the PCB will have 4 vias with 
> the two end vias going to vdd1 and vdd2 and the two middle vias going 
> to gnd on a PCB that has a stackup something like this:
> 
>                  pads
>                  vdd2
>                  gnd
>                  vdd1
>                  more layers...
> 
> Since there are 4 vias and 4 pads, an inductance matrix involving 4 
> conductors will handle the situation.  An EM solver can be used to 
> find the inductance matrix.  Measurement of this matrix will be 
> difficult.
> 
> This brings up some questions about how many terminals the "3 terminal 
> capacitor" has?  What is the topology of the circuit model that will 
> be simulated?  Several years ago, I asked similar questions to the 
> manufactures of the X2Y capacitor but did not get any clear answers. 
> They basically told me not to worry about what is inside the caps and 
> just look at the measurements.  That is when I got really worried...
> 
> To go any further in this discussion, we need to clearly define some 
> terminology.  For this discussion, I would like to distinguish between 
> "insertion loss" and "transfer impedance".  People use both of these 
> terms when referring to an S21 measurement but I would interpret these 
> very differently, even though the magnitude and phase may be 
> identical.  First, we need a circuit topology.
> 
> I don't know what is inside of an X2Y package, but I will speculate 
> with the following circuit diagram (hope this works out...):
> 
>     vdd1    o--LLL-----LLL-----LLL-----LLL-----LLL-----o   vdd2
>                     |       |       |       |
>                    ---     ---     ---     ---
>                    .-.     .-.     .-.     .-.
>                     |       |       |       |
>     gnd1    o--LLL-----LLL-----LLL-----LLL-----LLL-----o   gnd2
> 
> Please consider each inductor (LLL) to also have a resistance.  I 
> believe that if you attached an ohm meter to the vdd1 and vdd2 
> terminals, current would flow through the part with some resistance. 
> The gnd1 and gnd2 terminals would behave the same way.  You would 
> measure a capacitance between either of the vdd and gnd terminals. 
> (Somebody please correct me if I am wrong about this..)  The above 
> diagram behaves in this way.  Let's say that the VRM (power source) is 
> attached to vdd1 and the load (power sink) is attached to vdd2.  Gnd1 
> and Gnd2 will end up being attached to the single gnd plane through 
> two inductive vias.  Vdd1 and Vdd2 are connected to different power 
> planes through two more vias, 4 inductive connections in all.
> 
> Now, back to "insertion loss" and "transfer impedance".  You might 
> make a full 2 port measurement of this device by connecting port 1 of 
> a VNA to vdd1 and gnd1; and connect port 2 to vdd2 and gnd2.  Gnd1 and 
> gnd2 may even be shorted together if the measurement is made with the 
> DUT mounted on a PCB.  The S21 measurement will tell us how much of 
> the wave from port 1 made it to port 2.  If this is a good DUT, we 
> will probably see something like -60dB for S21 in some frequency 
> range. This is the traditional meaning of insertion loss.  Not much of 
> the signal got through.  Note that we could get large insertion loss 
> by two different means: we could make the L and R series impedance 
> very large, or we could make the capacitive admittance very large 
> (capacitive impedance very small).
> 
> In fact, we could make the LLL's high inductance (and high resistance, 
> nearly an open circuit) so that there was little conductivity from 
> vdd1 to vdd2 and have extreme insertion loss, perhaps -120 dB.  But 
> should this be interpreted as a low impedance power distribution 
> system (PDS) that is capable of bringing 100 amps from vdd1 to vdd2?  
> Absolutely not.
> 
> If on the other hand, we obtained -120 dB "transfer impedance" by 
> keeping keeping the series L and R small and by having a very low 
> capacitive impedance (high capacitance), we have a DUT that may be 
> able to conduct the 100 amps from vdd1 to vdd2.  From the S21 
> measurement, you cannot tell what you have.  If you could make clean 
> S11 and S22 measurements on the DUT, you could figure out how the DUT 
> will perform in a PDS.  But S11 and S22 measurements below about 60 dB 
> and above 10 MHz are very inaccurate because the inductance of the 
> fixture dominates and it is very difficult to to calibrate or 
> compensate it out.  Yet this is the frequency and impedance range 
> where power distribution is very important.
> 
> Therefor, the engineers at Sun Microsystems have been using the phrase 
> "transfer impedance" when we refer to the S21 measurement that 
> involves port 1 and port 2 of the VNA connected to the same 
> conductors.  A good example of this is when we take power plane 
> measurements with port 1 and port 2 each connected to vdd and gnd of 
> the same power planes, but at different locations.  An ohm meter would 
> tell you that port 1 and port 2 are connected in parallel, but at high 
> frequency, this is not the case.  Istvan Novak has discussed a good 
> way to obtain the "self impedance" (S11 at one point on the power 
> planes) by probing the same Vdd and Ground vias with port 1 on top and 
> port 2 on the bottom of the PCB.  The probe inductance does not hurt 
> you in this "transfer impedance" measurement.  It is a lot like 4 port 
> kelvin probes for DC measurements.
> 
> In a similar way, I often solder port 1 and port 2 of the VNA to a two 
> terminal decoupling capacitor to obtain the impedance vs frequency. 
> With PDS and capacitor measurements made in this way, it is possible 
> to obtain accurate S21 readings of -80 dB at more than 100 MHz 
> (transfer impedance), which is far beyond the published accuracy of 
> the instrumentation.  But, this should not be interpreted as insertion 
> loss, if you understand my distinction between the two terms.  Istvan 
> has published several papers at Design Conn on the measurment of low 
> impedances at high frequencies.  We really want to know the S11 
> (actually the Z11) for the PDS but that is too difficult to measure, 
> so we measure S21, convert it to Z21 and call it a transfer impedance. 
> Subtle, but important.
> 
> Now, back to the 3 terminal capacitor...  Be very careful about 
> interpreting the insertion loss measured on a 3 terminal capacitor as 
> being the low impedance presented to a power distribution system.  It 
> is not.  If you want to obtain a model for the capacitor to be used in 
> SQPI simulation, you would have to make a "transfer impedance" 
> measurement by connecting both port 1 and port 2 of the VNA to the 
> vdd2 and gnd2 terminals of the DUT and leave the vdd1 and gnd1 
> terminals open.  This measurement will be far different than the 
> "insertion loss" measurements given by the 3 terminal cap 
> manufactures.  One measurement has to do with power going "through" a 
> component, the other measurement has to do with power getting "past" a 
> component on highly conductive power planes.
> 
> Essentially, the 3 terminal capacitor isolates the vdd1 node from 
> noise on the vdd2 node, and vice versa.  This may be very useful for 
> providing clean power to analog circuits such as a PLL.  But we have 
> to be very careful in the interpretation of the S21 measurements for 
> PDS components.  This discussion is closely related to the discussion 
> that we had on ports and terminals several weeks ago under subject 
> thread "N-port model limitations in simulators"
> 
> regards,
> Larry Smith
> Sun Microsystems
> 
> > Larry,
> > Thanks for your answer.
> > Yes, we are looking for mounting inductance of a decoupling 
> > capacitor
> for
> > use in the SQPI tool.
> > As you know, models for this require inductance values for the part
> itself
> > (intrinsic inductance) and inductance associated with mounting. You 
> > wrote: " .. measure the loop inductance on an existing product or
> test
> board ...", I agree, this can be done quite well on a two terminal
device
> > (standard MLCC).
> > But how to measure this for a three terminal device, like an 
> > feedthru
or
> a
> > X2Y-capacitor?
> > Especially the latter: the X2Y consists of 3 embedded capacitors and
> forms
> > actually 3 current loops.
> >
> > Following describes how we think how to attach a three-terminal
device,
> > like the X2Y.
> > The ideal situation would be that both end-terminations - as a
standard
> > two terminal capacitor has - are attached to two powerplanes, e.g. 
> > as
> you
> > mentioned Vdd and Vdd2. The third terminal, which actually consists 
> > of
> two
> > side connections (internally connected to each other) must be
connected
> to
> > a ground plane in between with at least 2 via's. One at each side of
the
> 
> > part..
> > Stackup: Vdd - Gnd - Vdd2 with equal distances between the planes.
> >
> > There will be a power flow through the feedthru capacitor, which 
> > will result in some power loss due to its series resistance. But not 
> > in case of the X2Y, which is attached in bypass (shunt). In case of 
> > the X2Y, measurements have shown that a very low impedance
> over
> > a broad frequency range can be reached, due too its low intrinsic 
> > ESL,
> and
> > low ESR (as presented at CARTS2002 USA & Europe).
> > The intrinsic inductance of the part itself can be extracted very 
> > well
> by
> > a VNA 2-port measurement (as described in some SUN-papers). The part 
> > is mounted in a low inductance fixture, designed for three-terminal 
> > devices and is de-embedded by a TRL-calibration.
> >
> > Now back to the mounting inductance:
> > almost needless to mention, but to fully employ the low inductance 
> > character of e.g. the X2Y, mounting should be paid attention too. 
> > How to measure/determine/extract/estimate the mounting inductance 
> > for these three terminal devices. Can I assume the mounting 
> > inductance to be half the value of a
standard
> > capacitor with the same size?
> > For from mounting point of view the two halves of e.g. the X2Y are 
> > paralleled. Or is this too simple? Do you have any additional 
> > suggestion?
> >
> > best regards,
> > Bart Bouma
> > www.yageo.com
> >
> >
> >
> > Bart - Are you looking for the mounting inductance associated with a 
> > decoupling capacitor to be used in the Spectra Quest Power Integrity 
> > tool?  SQPI has a fast henry type of EM solver that will estimate 
> > the loop inductance for the Vdd/Gnd terminals.  Or, you can do as we 
> > do
and
> > measure the loop inductance on an existing product or test board and 
> > insert the inductance manually.
> >
> > I must confess, I don't really know what to do with 3 terminal 
> > capacitors for the decoupling application.  Where do you attach the 
> > 3 terminals?  Two of the terminals will be Vdd and Gnd, but where 
> > does the third terminal attach to the system?  The mounting 
> > inductance for your 3 terminal device will be highly dependent on 
> > where the current is flowing (current and return current).
> >
> > Does power flow through the 3 terminal device?  For example, do you 
> > hook it to Vdd, Gnd and Vdd2?  Is Vdd2 a separate power plane in the 
> > PCB stackup?  A 3 terminal capacitor used in this way may be very 
> > useful for a sensitive PLL or similar low power application.  But 
> > the power consumer will be downstream of the relatively high series 
> > impedance of the 3 terminal device.  It may be possible to meet a 
> > target impedance of several ohms using the 3 terminal device, but it 
> > will be very difficult to build a 1 mOhm power distribution system 
> > up to the 100 MHz range using 3 terminal capacitors.
> >
> > regards,
> > Larry Smith
> > Sun Microsystems
> >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I'm resending this post on Specctraquest mounted inductance. Until
now
> 
> > no
> > > reactions received on this topic.
> > > Is there no one on the si-list who can help a vendor to generate 
> > > Specctraquest models? I read so often that models are not 
> > > available from vendors, now is
> your
> > > chance!
> > > But I need some help. Please!
> > >
> > > Bart
> > > www.yageo.com
> 
> > > ================  original post
> ========================================
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am starting to develop Specctraquest models for three-terminal 
> > > capacitors, e.g. a feedthru capacitor. Does anybody know how to 
> > > extract, or how to determine, the mounted inductance of such a 
> > > three-terminal capacitor? Maybe someone already did this?
> > >
> > > For a two terminal device the loop-inductance can be determined
quite
> > > easily, but for a three terminal capacitor I could not find a 
> > > single reference. Of course it all depends on substrate thickness, 
> > > vias and layout,
but
> is
> >
> > > there a general method how to calculate the mounted inductance or 
> > > loop-inductance for such a device? Any information is welcome!
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Bart Bouma
> > > www.yageo.com
> > >
> 
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