Highlights:
- New interface with PhoeniX Software's OptoDesigner facilitates photonic integrated circuit development path from simulation to fabrication
- Expanded application design libraries provide customers a resource to quickly build and simulate fiber-optic communication systems
Synopsys announces the latest release of its RSoft Photonic System Design Suite, the company's software for the design of optical communication systems and photonic integrated circuits at the signal propagation level. Version 2016.06 of the Synopsys RSoft Photonic System Design Suite introduces a new interface to PhoeniX Software's OptoDesigner chip and mask layout tool to streamline design and fabrication processes for photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
In addition, the release expands the software's application design libraries to help engineers quickly build optical communication systems for a variety of applications, including high-speed optical networks, data center interconnects, silicon photonics and automotive fiber-optic links. The new project design files and application notes reflect emerging trends and innovations in the industry.
Enhanced PIC design with PhoeniX Software's OptoDesigner
Synopsys OptSim Circuit interface, part of the RSoft Photonic System Design Suite, is used to design, optimize and simulate next-generation PICs. OptSim Circuit delivers a new interface with PhoeniX Software's OptoDesigner that supports the PIC design flow from simulation to fabrication. In OptSim Circuit, users can load foundry process design kits (PDKs), create a PIC schematic from PDK building blocks and simulate and optimize the PIC. Users can then export netlist information to OptoDesigner to synthesize PIC mask layouts for fabrication. The interface uses an application programming interface (API) compliant with PDAFlow standards for interoperability with a wide range of foundry PDKs to enhance PIC design reliability.
Expanded libraries of application examples
Version 2016.06 adds new project design files and application notes to the Photonic System Design Suite's pre-supplied design libraries to help customers quickly build and simulate fiber-optic systems and PICs. The application notes provide pre-built design files for a number of emerging areas of research and industry innovations, including silicon photonics and photonic integration, spectrally efficient data center networks, high-speed optical interconnects and automotive large-core fiber links.
OptSim library enhancements:
- Updated n-PAM digital signal processing (DSP) library functions, including a more accurate analytical bit error rate (BER) calculation, improved automatic threshold calculation and support for nonlinear level spacing for systems using Mach-Zehnder modulators.
- New application notes analyzing and estimating penalties from total jitter, crosstalk, ground noise pickup, multipath interference and intermodulation distortions. The notes are useful for designers of Ethernet systems, data center links, high-speed optical interconnects, analog radio-over-fiber systems and optical networks.
OptSim Circuit library enhancements:
- New application notes for designers of silicon photonics, PICs, photonic sensors and transceiver chips.
ModeSYS library enhancements:
- New application notes for designers of multimode fiber-optic communication systems, large-core, step-index (LC-SI) fiber-based automotive links and interconnects.
Availability & resources
The RSoft Photonic System Design Suite version 2016.06 is available now. Customers with a current maintenance agreement can download the software from the Synopsys website using their SolvNet account.
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