OptSim Elite

Driving the PIC Revolution

Electro-Optic Co-Simulation of Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems

In co-packaged optics, it is imperative to accurately simulate electronic and photonic circuits together in the same simulation. How will your PIC perform when deployed in a system? Look no further – OptSim Elite is here! Traditional electrical designers can now easily simulate and analyze photonics in the same, familiar flow.

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Photonic integration is an answer to the ever-increasing bandwidth demands, energy efficiency, smaller footprint, and reliability. The adaptation of PICs is rapidly growing across the industry segments such as data centers, optical interconnects, automotive, sensing, aerospace & defense, artificial intelligence (AI) and photonic computing.

PICs are becoming complex and component count is increasing at a rapid pace. Co-packaged optics (CPO) are driving more complex trade-offs between electronics and photonics and gone are the primitive days when it was enough to model photonics as electronics in electrical circuit simulators.

With OptSim Elite, you can use the industry’s best electrical circuit simulators in conjunction with the most comprehensive photonic circuit simulator on the respective portions of the same chip within the familiar OptoCompiler platform.

Features & Benefits

Supports Simulation of Design Hierarchies

Extensive Library of Models

OptSim Elite supports the simulation of design hierarchies. Model bidirectional signal flow for both optical (single- and multi-wavelength) and electrical signals. Co-simulation with PrimeSim Continuum, which includes PrimeSim HSPICE and PrimeSim SPICE, and enables simulation of electronics in the PIC using industry leading electrical circuit simulators together with the simulation of photonic circuits. Additional features include:

Modeling capability for multipath interference (MPI), reflections and resonances from network and PIC elements
Measurement- and datafile-driven modeling of active and passive, photonic, and electronic components and circuits
PDK-driven PIC design including foundry and custom PDKs

In addition to supporting PIC design models and features of OptSim Circuit, OptSim Elite provides a rich library of single- and multimode fiber-optic system design models thereby allowing testing a PIC at the system level.

Integrated with Synopsys PrimeWave Design Environment

Enhanced Visualization

OptSim Elite is integrated with Synopsys PrimeWave Design Environment (PDE) for both electrical and photonic netlists allowing for the set-up of testbenches, specifying simulation engine and parameters, and performing scans and analyses.

OptSim Elite results and waveforms (logical, electrical, and optical) can be viewed via PDE in both the PrimeWave and OptSim Viewer.