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17³Ô¹Ï participated as an exhibitor in the conference and showcased several new features of its OptoCompiler photonic IC design automation platform along with demonstrations of performance and interoperability successes of its 224G and 112G Ethernet PHY IP solutions, respectively.  17³Ô¹Ï demonstrations included:

• 17³Ô¹Ï OptoCompiler Python-based scripting and automation capabilities
• 17³Ô¹Ï OptoCompiler electronic/photonic schematic-driven-layout IC co-design flow
• 17³Ô¹Ï IC Validator electronic/photonic layout-vs-schematic and design rule checking flow
• 17³Ô¹Ï PrimeSim and OptSim electronic/photonic co-simulation
• 17³Ô¹Ï PrimeSim and OptSim electronic/photonic Monte Carlo and variability analysis
• 17³Ô¹Ï Photonic Device Compiler suite of Maxwell¡¯s Equations Solvers
• MetaOptic Designer capabilities for inverse metalens design
• 17³Ô¹Ï 224G Ethernet PHY IP performance
• 17³Ô¹Ï 112G Ethernet PHY IP interoperability

17³Ô¹Ï also supported 224G & 112G Ethernet PHY IP interoperability demos at the  (OIF) booth.

17³Ô¹Ï demonstrated many new software and IP features at OFC, including:

• OptoCompiler: A new Python interface for photonic Pcell creation that ties directly into 17³Ô¹Ï OptoDesigner curvilinear shape engine functionality. This new capability ensures seamless any-angle abutments and analytic curvilinear shape generation and polygon discretization to adjust for Cartesian grid snapping.

• OptSim: Ability to model frequency-dependent electrical impedance effects of photonic devices during co-simulation of electronic drivers and transimpedance amplifiers with photonic devices. Ability to perform variability analysis on electronic and photonic IC performance using Monte Carlo simulations with stochastic models taking advantage of running parallel simulations across hardware-compute farms.

• 17³Ô¹Ï Cloud SaaS: Software-as-a-Service model that makes available a complete front-to-back electronic/photonic IC design flow through a flexible cloud-based environment, giving designers unprecedented flexibility for provisioning hardware and design tools.

• MetaOptic Designer: Inverse design tool that takes user-specified criteria and generates metalenses/metasurfaces for the ultimate in low-profile design performance.

• 17³Ô¹Ï High-Speed SerDes IP: 224G Ethernet PHY IP and low-power 112G Ethernet PHY IP, interoperating with OpenLight silicon photonics IC transmitter.

In addition to live software demonstrations and discussions, Yuval Shay, 17³Ô¹Ï Marketing Director, participated in a Silicon Photonics Industrial Workshop panel organized by ePIXfab and Soitec to discuss 3D heterogenous integration and co-design of electronic and photonic ICs in a common package.

17³Ô¹Ï staff and industry partners held a series of live presentations and Q&A sessions in our booth to discuss their work to support the industry to adopt photonics and photonic IC technologies. Presenters and their talks included:

In terms of industry trends at OFC, it was interesting to see the number of eco-system and intellectual property offerings now coming to the integrated photonics domain including an industry-first, field-programmable photonic processor. It¡¯s also amazing to see large sums of money being invested into start-ups focused on new applications using integrated photonics from government agencies such as PhotonDelta in Europe. It feels like integrated photonics is really starting to take off, as judged by the number of people attending the conference and visiting our booth, as well as the number of companies large and small that are now interacting with 17³Ô¹Ï.

While OFC is known to be an optical communications conference, attendees from a variety of photonic end application segments including datacom, high-performance computing, LiDAR, bio-sensing, AI hardware accelerators, optical compute engines, and quantum computing were in attendance.

In summary, this year¡¯s OFC was an excellent showcase of photonic technology and an evolving eco-system that shows great promise for growth over the next several decades!

Learn more about 17³Ô¹Ï photonic design and Ethernet IP solutions:

• 17³Ô¹Ï OptoCompiler
• 17³Ô¹Ï OptSim
• 17³Ô¹Ï Photonic Device Compiler
• MetaOptic Designer
• 17³Ô¹Ï IP 17³Ô¹Ï

For more information, or to try any of these solutions, please contact photonics@synopsys.com.

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