Module
OptiLUCEDA CoSim
Fully simulate your PIC-based products in a unified system environment by combining Luceda's PIC layout and modeling capabilities along with Optiwave's system-level design and simulation features. Efficiently design, simulate and analyze your PICs from chip to system level, avoiding costly errors before fabrication.
PIC design in Luceda IPKISS
PIC validation in Luceda IPKISS
System design in OptiSystem with circuit imported from IPKISS
System validation in OptiSystem
About this module
The disconnect between the design platform of a PIC and that of the optical system in which it operates is a common challenge faced by PIC designers. Multiple feedback cycles are required, making the design process difficult, time-consuming, and error-prone. What if you could effortlessly combine Luceda’s design and modeling capabilities with the system simulation power of Optiwave?
With OptiLUCEDA CoSim you can directly embed your IPKISS-designed PIC into OptiSystem, allowing you to simulate your PIC-based products in a unified system environment. This integration eliminates manual translation efforts, allowing designers to rapidly iterate on new parametric photonic architectures while seeing their impact on the complete system.
Utilize the vast array of components and examples in OptiSystem, and explore PIC-based applications such as coherent optical communication, quantum key distribution, LiDAR systems, spectroscopy based on arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs), and more!
PIC designer benefits
- Augment the flexible Python-driven PIC design flow in IPKISS to include system-level simulations in Optisystem.
- Plug your IPKISS-designed PIC into Optisystem without any manual translation of the circuit netlist, saving time and reducing errors.
- Perform end-to-end link simulations, and identify PIC and system performance bottlenecks early in your design cycle.
- Leverage co-simulation to explore trade-offs between PIC and system performance, accelerating design iteration.
- Take advantage of OptiSystem’s expansive component library with over 600+ components and 1000+ examples to cater to a broad array of optical links and scenarios. Just replace a component(s) in the example by OptiLUCEDA CoSim to add the PIC into the layout.
Check out our webinar to find out more:
This module works within the Luceda Photonics Design Platform as add-on to Luceda IPKISS.
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