Openlight design enablement

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What does open PDK really mean?

OpenLight’s open PDK (product development kit) 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:

https://openlightphotonics.com...

More Press releases

OpenLight and their revolutionary approach to photonics
Dec 2022

OpenLight and their revolutionary approach to photonics

Dan is joined by Dr. Thomas Mader, Tom is the Chief Operating Officer of OpenLight, a newly formed independent company by investments from Synopsys…

OpenLight and their revolutionary approach to photonics
Silicon Photonics enables fast, energy-efficient data processing.
Nov 2023

Silicon Photonics enables fast, energy-efficient data processing.

The EE Times Europe, Q and A interview with Adam Carter, CEO of OpenLight, looks at the company’s vision to bring silicon photonics to the masses.

Silicon Photonics enables fast, energy-efficient data processing.
OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Demonstrate 400G/lane Modulators Built on Silicon Photonic Wafers for Data Centers and AI Optical Connectivity
Mar 2025

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Demonstrate 400G/lane Modulators Built on Silicon Photonic Wafers for Data Centers and AI Optical Connectivity

Innovation paves the way for a high-volume, silicon photonics 400G/lane platform to meet next-generation 3.2T optical communication architectures…

OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Demonstrate 400G/lane Modulators Built on Silicon Photonic Wafers for Data Centers and AI Optical Connectivity