Keysight Brings Radio Frequency and Photonic Design Together for Tower Semiconductor
Keysight Brings Radio Frequency and Photonic Design Together for Tower Semiconductor
Designers can simulate the complete signal path across electronic and optical domains before tapeout
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has certified Advanced Design System (ADS) Photonic Designer to support Tower Semiconductor’s PH18 silicon photonics process design kits (PDKs). Engineers can now work from schematic through simulation and layout in one environment. Teams already working on high-speed digital and radio frequency (RF) projects in ADS can use Tower processes to design photonic integrated circuits (PICs) or co-design them with electronic circuits in the same tool.
As optical link rates climb to 1600G and beyond, electrical and optical interactions impacted by interdependent physics determine performance. Verification must cover the PIC and the system in which it will operate, which has meant design teams working in separate tools to transfer different data and translate models, limiting what can be simulated. Integrating electrical and optical work removes that.
Tower RF processes have run on Ke...