Photonic Integrated Circuit Design Tools
Driving the PIC Revolution with Synopsys' Photonic Solutions
Synopsys’ 30 years of leadership in EDA, combined with PhoeniX OptoDesigner’s and the RSoft products’ 25 years of leadership in photonic design automation (PDA), positions Synopsys to provide a best-in-class photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design flow.
We facilitate first-time-right PIC manufacturing.
Select from the industry’s largest portfolio of photonic device simulators to design waveguides, nanostructures, and other components for your PICs.
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Model and optimize PICs at the system level, including coupling and feedback of optical and electrical signal paths.
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Access photonic-aware physical layout capabilities to synthesize PIC layouts for fabrication, enabled by support for foundry-specific process design kits.
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With Synopsys’ solutions, IC design teams have access to widely used, high-quality IC and photonic design software from a single provider with a single support channel:
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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A detailed demonstration of how the Synopsys tool chain works for Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) on chip. In this webinar, RSoft BeamPROP is applied to design waveguide-based power splitters, including the comparison of an MMI and a Y branch.
Synopsys, an early partner of AIM Photonics, is driving the advancement of photonic integrated circuit technologies with its PIC Design Suite, which includes OptSim Circuit and OptoDesigner tools.
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This presentation covers key features of Synopsys’ comprehensive PIC flow, creating custom PDKs from RSoft Device Tools to OptSim Circuit, connecting HSPICE to OptSim Circuit for EIC-PIC co-simulation, the OptSim Circuit and OptoDesigner bi-directional interface and more.
A webinar demonstrating the world's first open commercial silicon photonics process from TowerJazz, enabled by Synopsys' PIC Design Suite.
iPhone X elevates niche optical technology to hot growth market. Now the question is what else it is good for? “With phones, there are lots of hidden and non-hidden cameras,” said Twan Korthorst, R&D director for photonic solutions at Synopsys. “Those cameras can identify whether you’re looking at the phone and take optical measurements, which is where VCSELs come into play. There is a detector, a light source and an image. VCSELs are a small discrete component.”
Read Full Article on www.semiengineeringcom.comNot only does Synopsys have the most complete photonics and optical solutions offering, but they also boast the most comprehensive PDK support for photonic foundries and package suppliers.
Read Full Article on www.semiwiki.comAuthors: Y. Zhou, A. Bhardwaj, J. Mason; et al. in OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2019
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