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Optical Communications ∙ Sensing and Imaging Applications Using Photonic and PIC Technologies ∙ AR/VR ∙ Silicon Photonics
Design photonic products quickly and accurately with our comprehensive solutions portfolio
Photonic Integrated Circuits
OptoCompiler is the industry’s first unified electronic and photonics design platform for fast, flexible photonic IC design
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Photonic Systems
OptSim provides comprehensive simulations of photonic ICs and optical communication systems
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Photonic Devices
RSoft Photonic Device Tools provide the industry's widest portfolio of simulators for passive and active nanoscale devices
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News Release
Synopsys Extends OptoCompiler Support for New GF Fotonix™ Platform
Synopsys OptoCompiler solution will enable designers to leverage the new GlobalFoundries silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix™. It is the first to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering best-in-class performance at scale.
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Blog
Designing PAM-4 Transmitter PICs for Higher Bandwidth and Energy Savings in Data Centers
Explore the design of a PAM-4 transmitter chip that provides higher bandwidth compared to NRZ, avoids use of energy-inefficient electronics, and achieves PAM-4 signaling in the optical domain by using segmented-electrode phase-shifters.
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News Release
Synopsys Chosen by Juniper Networks to Accelerate Development of Photonic ICs for Next-Gen Data Centers
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, has adopted the Synopsys OptoCompiler™ platform, including the OptSim™ and PrimeSim™ HSPICE® simulation solutions.
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Our latest releases create an even more seamless flow from photonic device development and PDK creation to PIC circuit design, layout implementation, and verification.
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- Communication Systems
- 5G
- Radio-over-fiber networks
- Microwave photonics
- AR/VR
- Quantum computing
- Photonic components: passive and active
- LiDAR
- Chemical sensing
- Metalenses and metasurfaces
- Spectroscopy
- Silicon photonics, InP, SiN, PLC, polymers and more
- Transceivers for coherent and non-coherent fiber optic communication systems
- Photonic systems with multipath interference (MPI), reflections and resonances
- Ring resonators, ring modulators, Traveling-Wave Mach-Zehnder Modulators (TW-MZM), optical filters
- Biophotonic sensors