In the following dialogue, Adam Carter chats about OpenLight’s new process design kit (PDK) - a tool to help accelerate designing photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
Laser Focus World: What inspired your PDK Sampler?
Adam Carter: The PDK was inspired by the need to enhance familiarity with evolving process technologies and increase the accessibility of PICs. With increasing compute demands and the pace of advancements, customers can find the process of adapting new technologies to be daunting. OpenLight sought to address this challenge by providing customers with a shortcut to test individual PDK elements within their own lab and become more confident using the Tower PH18DA process.
LFW: Highlights of OpenLight’s PDK Sampler?
Carter: The PDK Sampler is a die-level PIC, which contains OpenLight’s heterogeneous laser, optical amplifier, 100G PAM-4 electro-absorption modulator (EAM), and other active and passive components on Tower’s PH18DA process. With the PDK Sampler, customers can validate models and test individual PDK elements within their own lab to ensure first-pass success in a PH18DA tapeout and make the most of the technology. As a result, they’re set up for success at the get-go and have a better vantage point to sample every PDK component available through our open platform.
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