VPItoolkit PDK GPIC, illustrating the interface between VPIphotonics Design Suite and Siemens EDA L-Edit & S-Edit tools, was updated to support the schematic-driven layout design of photonic ICs.
The workflow can start now with the schematic in S-Edit. The design is then simulated in a photonics test bench using VPIphotonics Design Suite or converted to its layout in L-Edit.
To illustrate this, we added the application example of dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DP-MZM) used for four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4).
PAM4_Example
We also provide a detailed simulation tutorial for the DP-MZM example to help the users get started.
We added illustrating application examples and a set of templates to simplify the creation of virtual test benches in S-Edit in the new version.
Learn more about electronic-photonic co-simulation and layout-driven design workflow here.