do ferrite beads count as inductors?

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@Felthry I've yet to see a ferrite bead with terminals

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@noiob digikey.com/en/products/detail they exist! and are really common actually

the kind you thread a wire through don't really work for high-density surface-mount boards
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@Felthry I guess, if you can call that a ferrite bead

@noiob I mean it's the same exact thing, a wire passing through a deliberately lossy ferrite
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@noiob just packaged up to be easily positioned with a pick-and-place machine, and to take as little board space as possible
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