METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A COIL DESIGNER

A computerized PCB coil circuit design system includes an input engine to receive PCB coil design parameters based on manufacturing rules including trace width and conductor thickness, to receive input parameters including LC sensor capacitance, coil shape, and number of coil layers, and to receive updates to any of the PCB coil design parameters or the input parameters. The system further includes a PCB coil solution generation engine to calculate output coil parameters including total inductance, sensor frequency, and Q factor as a function of the PCB coil design parameters and received input parameters, to graphically plot one selected output parameter as a function of one input parameter, and upon an update to one parameter selected from the parameters based on PCB manufacturing rule and input parameters, to recalculate the output coil parameters and to replot the one selected output coil parameter as a function of one input coil parameter.