The invention relates to the field of electronics, more particularly to
the wire bonds incorporated into an integrated circuit package such as a
quad flat pack, a ball grid array or hybrid style module. The present
invention takes the normally undesirable wire bond inductance and uses it
in an operational circuit where positive inductance is required. The
circuit in which the wire bond inductance is used is located primarily in
the integrated circuit die housed in the integrated circuit package, but
may also include off-die components. In one example, a wire bond is used
as the required series inductance in a discrete circuit impedance
inverter which consists of two shunt-to-ground negative inductances and
one series positive inductance. One of the negative inductances is
located on-die, while the other is located off-die.