Design of PCB Impedance Matching Inductors and Antennas for Single-Chip Communication Systems

Table 1

PCB inductor versus silicon inductor.

Tradeoffs for inductors built in:	Silicon	FR4 PCB	LTCC
Area/Cost	High	Low	Med
Fabrication Complexity	High	Low	High
Frequency Ranges	High	Low	High
Inductance	Low	High	Med
Q-factor	Low	High	High