Photonic Design Automation

Accelerated Photonic Layout and Verification with DW Suite

Advanced Photonics Design Tools

Streamlined Design for Efficient Results

Photonic Design Automation (PDA) refers to software tools specialized in designing photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and photonic systems. DW Suite, a leading solution in PDA, enables precise and efficient design processes, significantly reducing complexity and improving accuracy for engineers specializing in photonics.

The photonic design process involves creating systems and devices that manipulate light for a wide range of applications such as optical communication, sensing, computing, and more. It shares similarities with electronic design but involves unique considerations due to the behavior of light and optical materials.

Here’s an overview of the typical photonic design process:

1

Modeling and Simulation

The early and intermediate stages of developing photonic devices or systems, where ideas are formed, analyzed, and optimized.

2

Waveguide Layout and Routing

Create the physical layout that precisely arranges and interconnect waveguides and other components. Ensuring optimal optical signal integrity and minimal loss.

3

Photonic Verification

Advanced verification to ensure all designs meet stringent photonic specifications, crucial for reliability in production.

4

Fabrication-Ready Outputs

Automatically generate precise fabrication files tailored to your specific manufacturing processes, ensuring your designs transition smoothly from virtual concepts to real-world photonic components.

DW Suite integrates effortlessly within the PDA workflow, enabling lower costs, accelerated design cycles, and unparalleled user experience.

Why choose DW Suite for Photonic Design

Solutions Tailored for Innovations

Customer-Centric Support

DW Suite collaborates closely with photonic engineers, addressing specific industry challenges to create tailor-made design solutions that enhance user satisfaction and project success.

Maximized Efficiency

Automate and accelerate complex photonic design processes, significantly reducing time-to-market and increasing productivity.

Intuitive Interface

A user-friendly design environment ensures a short learning curve, enabling designers at all skill levels to efficiently execute and modify photonic designs.

Superior Design Accuracy

Detect and correct potential design issues early, resulting in higher-quality photonic circuits and minimizing costly revisions.

Cost Optimization

Precise photonic modeling and verification reduce errors, resulting in cost savings during design and production phases, especially important in competitive markets.

Scalability and Versatility

DW Suite supports projects of varying complexity, from basic photonic circuits to highly integrated systems, providing scalable and flexible design automation.

Seamless Integration

Compatible with leading third-party software and standard file formats, DW Suite enhances workflow continuity and interoperability within your existing ecosystem.

Commitment to Innovation

DW Suite continuously evolves, incorporating the latest advancements in photonic technology to ensure your designs remain competitive and cutting-edge.

Testimonials

Satisfied and loyal users are what keeps a company successful

As a CAD « power user », I find DW to be a great program to use, that I can work with quickly and efficiently. The flow of work for the user is quite well designed, and the user interface is optimized for the user. I think what sets DWT aside from most competitors is the extremely powerful programming language, which provides immense extendibility and customization of the entire program.

Richard J.Bojko – Senior Engineer, Seagate Technology

We would like to thank Design Workshop Technologies for supporting Lightwave Microsystems in our goal to be the world-leading manufacturer of integrated optical components. For over four years, Lightwave Microsystems has been using DW as our mask layout software of choice to build our integrated optical components. DWT has been supportive by responding to our specific needs and requirements. DWT has an excellent technical support team that is responsive and knowledgeable. We look forward to building a great business relationship in the future.

Calvin Ho – CAD Engineering Manager, Lumentum

Cree Inc. utilizes DW as our preferred CAD tool for the implementation of, primarily, next generation microwave FET and microwave MMIC amplifier designs in SiC (Silicon Carbide), and GaN (Gallium Nitride). Refer to Cree’s website at www.cree.com for more information regarding specifications, target applications, partnerships, and customers. We have also employed DW in power device design including SiC power mosfets and schottky diodes. The power of the DW boolean tools has enabled designs that would have been previously too labor intensive to have been cost/time effective to pursue.

Dan Fritz – Test Engineer, Cree Inc.

I particularly appreciate the versatility of DW that we use to design photomasks for diffractive optics as well as for MEMS-like devices such as microbolometers, lightvalves or micromirrors. DW prevents any positioning error of MEMS on the CMOS circuitry because the design is made directly on top of the CMOS library. I also want to mention the GPE programming capabilities of DW for automatic generation of very complex structures that would be otherwise very difficult to build.

Christine Alain, M. Eng. – Program Manager, Microfabrication, INO

Here at Ultratech Stepper, Inc. we decided back in 1991 that it was time to purchase mask layout software to bring this capability in-house, rather than depend upon outside sources. After our investigation into the various options, we chose Design Workshop Technologies’ DW and have been using it for the past 12 years. We started with the Apple platform, and now have licenses for both the Apple and the PC platforms. We have completed cad layout for hundreds of Ultratech Stepper reticle designs for the steppers we produce, and have also found DW very useful for the verification of device layouts of our Customers. The ease of use of the Layout Editor of DW has always been a big plus.

Alan Walther – Senior Reticle Engineer, VEECO

At RSC, we’re an independent privately owned company focused on creating innovative technologies and delivering the winning technical edge in partnership with our customers. With intense time-to-market pressures our designers need proven layout software that works reliably and DW fills this need. DW is an impressive layout tool. Two outstanding features of DW are the native GDS database that guarantees seamless conversion and export of layout data to the GDS format, and the graphical programming environment (GPE) that gives access to all the capabilities of DW for automating advanced layout tasks.

Jonathan B. Hacker – Manager RF Circuits and Applications, Teledyne, Scientific and Imaging LLC

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