Shipla, Can you provide a picture and a brief desc...
# analog-design
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Shipla, Can you provide a picture and a brief description of the kinds of circuits (Are the signals expected to be DC or AC, What kinds of signals are you concerned about and how close are they?) In general a qquard ring is referring to a tap or set of tap connections on substrate or in Nwell that is isolating one region from another by absorbing charge. I think you are referring to a metal shield. Often just referred to as a shield. It will tend to act to absorb capacitive coupling between adjacent circuits but will have very limited effect on magnetic field as aluminium and copper are both not magnetic materials. What this means in practical terms is that shields can protect from Capacitive coupling from DC to Ghz but have no impact on preventing magnetic field coupling from far field EM waves
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Hi Andrew, I have drawn a spiral structure on metal 5 to get a particular value of inductance and is connected to the ground on metal 1 through the intermediate vias and metals. So, is there any other options (other than a guard ring) to follow to protect this structure from the causing EMI/EMC issues?
Here is the screenshot of the layout
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Are you trying to protect the chip from EMI or the environment around the chip from emi? The normal method is to put a metal shield over the chip o the board or put a metal slug over the inductor in the package.
to protect devices under the inducor simply don't put anything underneath it.
Asl I'd suggest having a waffle block layer on the indutor metal layer and immediately around it so there are no metal fill polygons added altering your inductor. Last point is that most people drawing larger inductors tend to use 45degree corners (octagon not square).