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Can someone tell me what the benefit of this is, and why it's been traditionally very hard? I've heard that many RF applications now do an S-i-P integration of an inductor, possibly for spatial and cost reasons.. What would be some considerations, though (i.e. does the inductor add any noise...

I'm a bit of a noob on all of this, but can anyone help me (or point to a great reference resource) on pro's and con's of each in designing a power management circuit? Specifically, I'm looking for what kinds of voltage and frequency applications each manufacturing process is used nowadays...