CompoundTek and Luceda release PDK for IPKISS integrated photonics design platform

Singapore-based silicon photonic (SiPh) foundry services provider CompoundTek Pte Ltd recently partnered with integrated photonics design automation firm Luceda Photonics of Dendermonde, Belgium. Together they will expand CompoundTek’s silicon photonics process design kit (PDK) to enable Luceda’s IPKISS platform for a global commercial customer base.

Photonic IC technology is maturing fast with designers needing PDKs as the foundation of their design flow, says CompoundTek. Providing a reliable and scalable design flow, the PDKs additionally facilitate knowledge transfer between foundries and designers on layout and simulation models. The IPKISS platform combines layout, smart physical simulation and circuit-level design and simulation in one single quality-controlled PDK. The PDK can be used from IPKISS.flow, and from IPKISS.eda integrated in the Siemens/Tanner flow, enabling users to make significant advances in creating design flows that are more reliable and scalable, CompoundTek adds.

Pivotal to the consolidation of knowledge in the context of a fast-moving industry, the IPKISS platform is instrumental to producing a scripting environment that covers the complete photonic IC design flow up to measurement feedback for true component validation. This is suitable for niche solutions spanning interconnectivity, datacom transceivers, bio-sensing, smart sensors, light detection & ranging (LiDAR), quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The IPKISS platform is in line with CompoundTek’s aim to drive the adoption of niche SiPh-based applications and in facilitating the commercialization goals of its global customer base.

“Our strategic partnership with Luceda Photonics leverages CompoundTek’s open manufacturing process platform,” says KS Ang CompoundTek’s chief operating officer. “Backed by an ecosystem that includes our design partners and foundry, the photonics design automation solution will further accelerate time-to-market in cutting-edge SiPh solutions,” he adds.

“The PDK with CompoundTek has been created following demand of some of our most important customers,” says Luceda’s chief technology officer Pieter Dumon. “In adding an influential foundry to our portfolio, we open new design opportunities to mature yet innovative design teams.”

CompoundTek is hosting a technology showcase in booth #3 at the 16th IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP 2019) in Singapore (28-30 August) while Luceda is conducting the PDK showcase in booth #4.

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