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About Rand Simulation Rand Simulation is focused on helping organizations bring their product vision to reality through incorporating engineering simulation technology into the product development process. Rand Simulation caters to product development organizations looking to compress the design process, maximize innovation, strengthen competitive differentiation and grow bottom-line profitability. Rand Simulation serves as both a North American reseller of Ansys engineering simulation software and as a trusted design consultant offering insights gained on over 3,000 design projects using engineering analysis software to balance design performance with size, cost, DFM and aesthetics. E L I T E C H A N N E L PA R T N E R simulation@rand.com | RandSIM.com | 888.483.0674 Photonic Integrated Circuits – A High-Level Overview 1. Component Design Flow For the photonic component designs, Ansys and Cadence built a direct integration bridge between the Candence Virtuoso Layout Suite and the Lumerical Multiphysics simulation tools to provide a simple design environment for component layout and simulation. It also includes the Lumerical Compact Model Library (CML) Compiler as a cross-simulator photonic compact model development platform, which takes the component simulation data and generates the compact models for the photonic PDKs. 2. Circuit Design Flows To facilitate the electronic photonics integrated circuit designs, Lumerical's photonic circuit simulator can integrate with the Candence Virtuoso. This design environment allows users to design hierarchical integrated circuit schematics using a virtual schematic editor and perform circuit analyses through the Virtuoso ADE. From the ADE, users can perform optical time and frequency domain analyses on their photonic circuits by using Lumerical's INTERCONNECT state engine. Users can also perform the full system simulation on both their electronic circuits and photonic circuits by leveraging Cadence Spectre and INTERCONNECT. This is also available for the Verilog-A platform. The schematic design can drive the circuit layout and the layout can be back annotated to the schematic for post layout simulations. Learn more and see several demonstrations of by watching the recording of this webinar, Ansys Lumerical for Photonic Integrated Circuit Design. Summary Ansys is the gold standard of simulation software. For more than 50 years, the company has developed software that helps engineers test design variations in virtual environments to minimize the chance of failure. When Ansys acquired Lumerical, which specialized in software tools for advanced photonics design, it expanded its capabilities to include enabling designers to model some of the most challenging problems in photonics. As an Ansys Certified Elite Partner, Rand Simulation helps companies of all sizes and in all industries realize the benefits of Ansys software through sales, training, and support as well as through consulting services. About the Author Yaelle Olivier, Optical Application Engineer, Rand SIM In her role as Optical Application Engineer in the Optics Business Unit (OBU) of Rand Simulation, Yaelle completes analyses of clients' designs, helps new customers find the right software for their needs, and provides support to existing customers. Yaelle has a background in spectroscopy and lens design, specializes in Ansys Zemax, and covers Lumerical and SPEOS. Yaelle can leverage optics and photonics simulations to meet customer needs in an ever-changing landscape.