Quick Specs
Lumerical INTERCONNECT includes a broad set of features and workflows with an extensive library of primitive elements, as well as foundry-specific PDK elements.
Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT
Photonic Integrated Circuit Simulator
Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT simulates photonic integrated circuits in the time and frequency domains.
SOLVE THE UNSOLVABLE
INTERCONNECT is Ansys Lumerical's Photonic Integrated Circuit Simulator
INTERCONNECT, Lumerical’s photonic integrated circuit simulator, verifies multimode, bidirectional, and multi-channel PICs. Creating your project in our hierarchical schematic editor, you can use our extensive library of primitive elements, as well as foundry-specific PDK elements, to perform analysis in the time or frequency domain.
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Hierarchical Schematic Editor
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PIC Element Libraries
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EDA Interoperability
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Statistical Analysis
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Hierarchical design -
Transient Block Analysis -
Mixed Signal Representation -
Import Compact Libraries Models
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GUI and Lumerical scripting -
Transient sample model simulator -
Electronic-Photonic co-simulation -
Travelling Wave Laser Model
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Frequency Domain Analysis -
Multimode and Multichannel Support -
Parameter Sweeps -
Statistical Analysis
What's New
The 2021 R2 release delivers improvements to Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT to better support PDK development:
Netlist Import from Tanner S-Edit
Ansys FEEM now includes support for diagonal anisotropy.
Touchstone Format
Export S-parameters in Touchstone format from Ansys Lumerical FDTD and Ansys Lumerical MODE component simulations and then import into Lumerical INTERCONNECT.
Resources
Verify Multimode, Bidirectional and Multi-Channel PICS with Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT
Experience a depth of features and workflow for photonic integrated circuit simulation with Lumerical INTERCONNECT. Available workflows accelerate design time and improve manufacturing outcomes. INTERCONNECT contains an extensive library of passive and active building blocks and supports many foundry PDKs with calibrated compact models.
Key Features
Perform photonic integrated circuit simulations with analyses in the time and frequency domain.
- PIC Simulation and Design
- EDA and PDA Interoperability
- Statistical Analysis
- PIC Element Libraries
- CML Development and Distribution
With its hierarchical schematic editor, use INTERCONNECT to design and simulate photonic integrated circuits. INTERCONNECT includes frequency domain analysis, transient sample mode simulation, and transient block mode simulation. It includes sophisticated visualization and data analysis tools with support for parameter sweeps and design optimization.
Simulate and optimize your designs with familiar EDA design tools and workflows to accelerate design time and improve reliability.
Perform corner analysis to model the effects of process variation on circuit performance. Execute Monte Carlo analysis to assess circuit performance and yield by accounting for process variations
INTERCONNECT contains an extensive standard library of passive and active optoelectronic building blocks, along with supplementary elements that enable simulations and analyze results. It includes two library extensions:
- An element library extension for laser modelling
- An element library extension for advanced system modelling including sophisticated fiber, amplifier, FEC encoding and equalization models
INTERCONNECT, along with Ansys Lumerical's device level tools, provides an infrastructure that supports the development and distribution of compact model libraries (CMLs) for PIC simulation and design. Typically, a CML is built upon a combination of experimentally measured data and accurate component-level simulation results using Lumerical’s device-level photonics tools.
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