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Photonic Solutions Enewsletter
Photonic Solutions 2021.09 Releases Now Available
We are pleased to announce the availability of version 2021.09 of the RSoft Photonic Device Tools, OptSim and our Photonic IC Solutions. New features and improvements include:
RSoft Photonic Device Tools:
- New far-field calculation in inhomogeneous regions, enabling faster and more accurate calculations for total-scattered field calculations and LED extraction and radiation pattern calculations
- Native support for LSF Batch Schedulers for FullWAVE FDTD and MOST clustered simulations that simplifies the use of high-performance computing systems
- The RSoft Advanced BSDF UDOP now includes optical phase, enabling use with coherent ray tracing and compensating for the optical path length (OPL) in the Synopsys LightTools ray tracing simulator
- Increased number of concurrent processes per license seat to 32, enabling customers to simulate larger problems and more fully utilize computers with many CPU cores. This change applies to FullWAVE FDTD, BeamPROP BPM, ModePROP EME, DiffractMOD RCWA, and FemSIM FEM. Note that this change was first included in v2021.03-3
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
OptoCompiler:
- Flexible bus waveguides, including:
- Interactive waveguide routing of a whole bus of waveguides
- Automatic fan-in and fan-out
- Optional enforcement of length differences among the waveguides in the bus
- More flexibility for single flex connectors
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
OptSim:
- Support for Linear Time Invariant simulation speed-up with OptoCompiler
- Monte Carlo simulation enablement with PrimeWave
- Ease of use and speed improvements for electro-optical co-simulation
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Photonic Device Compiler:
- Additional Custom PDK Utility workflow to simplify automatic cell creation for OptoCompiler and OptSim symbol, model, layout and LVS views
OptoDesigner:
- New bus framework with automatic length adjustments allows designers to easily route many waveguides with prescribed length differences around the chip, without the need for cumbersome manual adjustments
- Script function override control to ensure that a function or layout definition is not accidentally overwritten, avoiding errors
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
Software and License File Instructions
Direct-Sales Customers
Software and license key files for customers are available on the Synopsys SolvNetPlus website. If you need assistance accessing SolvNetPlus or obtaining the software and license codes, please contact photonics@synopsys.com.
International Customers
Some of our customers will obtain the software and license key files from their local software distributor. See the Synopsys Optical Solutions Group Global Contacts page for contact information. If your country is not listed on the Distributors page referenced above, please contact us at photonics@synopsys.com.
Photonic Symposium – Save the Date
21-22 September 2021
Join our Photonic Symposium to hear about the latest developments, application requirements, best practices, and future outlook.
The first day of the symposium will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about the photonic IC landscape, including market analysis, vision of hyper-scalers and chip suppliers, disruptive applications, and future developments. The second day of the event will feature application-based training with Synopsys solutions for implementation, analysis and verification of photonic ICs.
To see the agenda and learn more about our speakers, visit our website.
Student Optical Design Competition 2021 Winners
Students from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Columbia University, the University of Arizona, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of Rochester received awards for their entries in the 2021 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition.
One winner used the RSoft Photonic Device Tools to design a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide, a nano-scale photonic component used in telecommunications while another used PIC Design Suite to design a dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) receiver system for data communications.
On-Demand Resources
Tech Talk Recording: From Optical Fibers to Transceivers: Inter-Datacenter System Design
Learn how Synopsys provides your teams the exact tools they need for efficient photonic inter-datacenter systems design. This presentation covers how the market is driving optical fiber design and photonic transmitter architectures in new directions. You will learn how to optimize system design for increased efficiencies.
See our latest on-demand resources to optimize your use of our product portfolio:
- E-newsletters with product quick tips
- Presentation recordings
- Application notes
Customers can access RSoft Photonic Device Tools, OptSim, and PIC Solutions resources and content at any time on our Customer Support Portal (https://opticsportal.synopsys.com).
If you haven’t already registered for Portal access, consider registering for an account today!
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Upcoming Events
Photonic Symposium
Virtual Event
21-22 September 2021
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RSoft Photonic Device Tools Discovery Training
30 September 2021
3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. CEST
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PIC International
17-18 November 2021
Brussels, Belgium
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