Hi there, I am a postgraduate student and I need to design a couple of PCB printed spiral inductors for my project. To do that we have purchased Ansoft Ensemble 8.0 full version 3D simulator included. So, I would like to know a couple of things about this. 1.- As far as I know I need to get any sort of empirical formula to relate the dimensions of my inductor with the value of the inductance. Does anybody know any reference or any website useful for me? 2.-The second step is to simulate the model... Does anybody know if with the Ansoft package there is any straight forward method to extract the value of the inductance and the Q? I mean the kind of simulation I have to do, what kind of analysis. Thank you very much, ___________________________________________________________________ Rafael Martinez Catala Rossa Avenue, Bishopstown, Postgraduate student Cork, Ireland Cork Institute of Technology Fax: +353 21 4326625 Electronic Engineering Dep. Tel: +353 21 4326858 http://www.cit.ie ___________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu