Optoelectronics-VLSI technology is inherently a multi-disciplinary field. The building of systems require the gathering of experts such as optical hardware designers, opto-mechanics engineers, semiconductor (optoelectronic) manufacturers, system architects, computer scientists, VLSI circuit designers in the digital and analogue domains, specialists in hybrid integration, assembly engineers, packaging and testing engineers. Research groups tend consequently to be very large and to have sufficient resources for the fabrication of prototypes.
Do you know of any software and tools? Do you have any suggestions?
Dear Sir,
These comments apply to any system-on-chip project today, not just opto-etlectronic SoC. IP and EDA software tools are available from many vendors for the task of SoC design. You may wish to do an online search for EDA software tools specifically intended for optoelectronic ICs.
You may be interested in looking at the DLP or Digital Light Processing chip sets from TI. www.dlp.com
Best wishes!
Dear sir,
Myself a researcher working in the area of photonic multicore systems. During my research i have come across both photonic device simulation tools as well as photonic multicore simulators. Some of the tools and resources are as follows:
1. For photonic devices,
a) proprietary tools are: Lumerical FDTD, DEVICE, INTERCONNECT and MODE. Some others are Sentaurus TCAD, SILVACO, PHOENIX Software, Synopsys RSOFT.
b) free tools (not completely opensource): University of Ghent's IPKISS tool suite and CAPHE circuit simulator. There is another tool by university of taiwan called WTU-DDC. It is a MATLAB based 2D - 3D optoelectronic Device simulator.
c) opensource tools: MEEP by MIT. For Photonic Crystals they have a tool called MPB. THese two tools run only in linux (Ubuntu).
2. For photonic SoC and multicore:
a) Proprietary tools: Synopsys RSOFT. Cadence has recently included support for Photonic SoC.
b) Opensource tools: GRAPHITESim by MIT (Runs only in 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04).
I hope the above helps.
Thanks and Regards,
Soumyajit Poddar
It has to be understood that due to the difference in maturity of technology, no simulation software exists that can fully simulate the OEIC. Also keep in mind that a simulation consists of the algorithms as well as the parameter values. The latter are only known for mature foundry processes. For photonics this is being established, e.g., by OPSIS, IME and IMEC for silicon photonics.
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