Press releases
What does open PDK really mean?
OpenLight’s open process design kit (PDK) allows customers to design their own, next-generation PASIC, for existing, new and emerging applications.
It gives customers access to a comprehensive library of photonics components which are heterogeneously integrated on the PASIC. This includes active components like tuneable lasers, optical amplifiers, DFB’s, EA-modulators and photo detectors. OpenLight’s heterogenous, integration approach removes the need to source and package separate lasers on silicon photonics chips and improves device performance, with very low loss between active components and waveguides. In addition, OpenLight will guarantee PASIC designs developed with its PDK, with the option to produce the PASICs for customers using its foundry partners.
Many Silicon Photonics manufacturers are claiming open PDK capability, however, the PIC design must be produced entirely on their own platform, using their own components.
Read more about OpenLight’s open platform PDK, here:
More Press releases
Shaping the future of silicon photonics at OFC.
Thank you to everyone who visited OpenLight at OFC and saw us shaping the future of silicon photonics!
How OpenLight and Synopsys are reimagining datacenters through silicon photonics
Steven Alleston, business development director at OpenLight, co-authored this article with Jigesh K. Patel and Keivan Javadi Khasraghi of Synopsys.
Come and see OpenLight at OFC, Booth #4231
1 – 3 April, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco.