take control of your photonics design flow

Photonic-Electronic IC design and implementation

Pieter Dumon

27/09/2016

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Giving photonic IC designers“”the same power as electronic IC designers.

Make it possible to manage design complexity

Large-scale routing O+E co-design Technologies

Layout and verification Very custom design Optical circuit design

Layout driven design flow

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Handle layout complexity

Intuitive, visual

Drag and drop

Photonics + Electronics

Parametric + hierarchical

IPKISS.eda : Drag and Drop Parametric Cells (Pcells) in L-Edit

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Drag IPKISS Pcellsinto your design

Easy floorplanning

Adjust PCell parameters

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Draw connections Generate Waveguides

Circuit definition and layout in L-Edit

Drag and drop PCells

Photonic + Electronic hierarchical design

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Electro-opticcomponents

Grating coupler I/O

Electrical Pads

Process Design Kit based design

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• Imec ISIPP50G (SOI)• IME and CMC-IME (SOI)• IHP (SOI + BiCMOS)• Imec BioPIX (SiN)

Idea Design Implementation FabTechnology

Rules

Componentlibrary

Luceda supported foundry technologies

Design Rule Checking

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Calibre

L-EditLaunch Calibrefrom L-Edit

Inspect DRCerrors directly

in L-Edit

Functional Verification

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Circuit simulator (compact models)

Frequency and time domain

Incorporate layout effects (discretization)

Functional Verification

Resimulate the circuit based on the actual layout

Extract the connectivity and identify models

Include lengths, crossings, reflections, …

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Giving photonic IC designers“”the same power as electronic IC designers.

Make it possible to manage design complexity

Large-scale routing O+E co-design Technologies

Layout and verification Very custom design Optical circuit design

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Challenges: typical photonics design flow

Flexibility required

Specify own models and algorithms

Data processing

Integrate on solvers/solutions

Very custom design

Component CAD

Luceda design flow: Graphical UI + scripting

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IPKISS python script

L-Edit

Componentlibrary

Luceda design flow: Graphical UI + scripting

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IPKISS python script

L-Edit

Componentlibrary

Component CAD

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Simulation matching layout and technology definition

Do and re-do: save recipes

Automation

Propagate results to circuit level

Very custom design

CST Studio link

Virtual fabrication

3D FDTD through IPKISS – CST integration

Save recipe with the component

Extract S-parameters automatically

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S-params to CAPHE

circuit simulator

IPKISS Filter design tools

AWG, Echelle, MZI lattice filters, Rings, …

Design routines

Simulation based on dispersive models and actual layout

Access to all individual filter parameters

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layout

field simulation

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Giving photonic IC designers“”the same power as electronic IC designers.

Make it possible to manage design complexity

Large-scale routing O+E co-design Technologies

Layout and verification Very custom design Optical circuit design

Managing routing complexity

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Optical and electrical

Start from schematic

Re-use electrical router

Schematic

SDL

Auto routeS-Edit

IPKISS.eda on L-Edit

IPKISS.eda on L-Edit

Managing routing complexity

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IPKISS.eda on L-Edit

Optical pin-out > 100

Electrical pin-out > 50

Manage complexity: optical and electrical simulation

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S-Edit schematic

Waveform exchange T-Spice – IPKISS (Caphe)

TSpice IPKISS (Caphe)

Manage complexity: optical and electrical simulation

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Simulated time traces

Waveform exchange T-Spice – IPKISS (Caphe)

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High flexibility Easy customization

Fast implementation of fab-specific IPKISS-based photonic Process Design Kitson circuit and layout design levels.

Optical design and layout – manage optical design complexity

VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits Cross-Connect IPKISS

24www.lucedaphotonics.com

Layout DRC & Functional verification EM simulation

Component-centric Intuitive GUI Powerful scripting

Software partners

Giving photonic IC designers“”the same power as electronic IC designers.

Foundry partners