Openlight design enablement

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Customers design PASICs using OpenLight's Process Design Kit.

OpenLight is focused on design enablement to provide customers with everything they need to design their own, bespoke PASIC - Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit.

OpenLight licenses customers with an open-platform, Process Design Kit (PDK). The PDK takes engineers through all the steps necessary to design a world-leading PASIC. It provides access to a comprehensive library of active photonics components, such as tuneable DFB lasers, EA modulators, optical amplifiers, and photo detectors.

OpenLight’s Heterogeneous Integration technology means that all these active components can be fabricated as part of the same silicon photonics PASIC, removing the need to source and assemble separate lasers on silicon die. In addition, optical performance is improved, due to very low loss between active components and waveguides.

OpenLight – making photonics simple.

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OpenLight Introduces 3.2T DR8 Silicon Photonics PICs as well as 1.6T  DR8 LRO and LPO Variants
Mar 2026

OpenLight Introduces 3.2T DR8 Silicon Photonics PICs as well as 1.6T DR8 LRO and LPO Variants

First 3.2T DR8 prototype photonic integrated circuits  ( PICs) have been sampled to multiple transceiver manufacturersFirst orders received for 1.6T…

OpenLight Introduces 3.2T DR8 Silicon Photonics PICs as well as 1.6T DR8 LRO and LPO Variants
OpenLight 1.6T platform reduces manufacturing costs with a fivefold increase in efficiency
Dec 2024

OpenLight 1.6T platform reduces manufacturing costs with a fivefold increase in efficiency

The OpenLight 1.6T PASIC platform has a huge, beneficial impact on the operation and capital equipment costs for silicon photonics, chip…

OpenLight 1.6T platform reduces manufacturing costs with a fivefold increase in efficiency
MaxLinear Unveils RushmoreTM: Low-Power 1.6T PAM4 DSP for AI/ML and Data Center Networks
Apr 2025

MaxLinear Unveils RushmoreTM: Low-Power 1.6T PAM4 DSP for AI/ML and Data Center Networks

Rushmore integrates our latest advancements in DSP technology to address power demands and drive performance in the rapidly expanding AI/ML space.

MaxLinear Unveils RushmoreTM: Low-Power 1.6T PAM4 DSP for AI/ML and Data Center Networks