Patent ID: 8050790

Claim:
A manufacturing method of an inductor or a transformer, wherein said inductor or transformer comprises a substrate, a stack of conductive layers, and a first conductive layer, wherein said conductive layers are on the substrate and said first conductive layer is on said conductive layers, comprising the steps of: inputting the inductance, the quality factor, and the self-resonance frequency of said inductor or transformer into a simulator; analyzing the inductance, the quality factor, and the self-resonance frequency of said inductor or transformer to generate, by said simulator, at least one group including: the area size, the number of conductive layers, the line width, and the number of turns, or to generate, by said simulator, at least one group including: the area size, the number of conductive layers, the line width, the number of turns, and the line space of said conductive layers and said first conductive layer; manufacturing said inductor or transformer according to the area size, the number of conductive layers, the line width, and the number of turns, or according to the area size, the number of conductive layers, the line width, the number of turns, and the line space of said conductive layers and said first conductive layer; proceeding with a process variability analysis of the manufactured inductor or transformer according to a Monte-Carlo simulation to generate a result for said process variability analysis; and modulating the area size, the number of conductive layers, the line width, and the number of turns, or modulating the area size, the number of conductive layers, the line width, the number of turns, and the line space of said conductive layers and said first conductive layer, according to said result of said process variability analysis of the manufactured inductor or transformer; wherein the total thickness of said conductive layers, and said first conductive layer is less than 1 μm, and the number of conductive layers is the sum of said conductive layers and the first conductive layer.