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Mentor/Lumerical Real world design flow for real world designs with CompoundTek
December 4, 2019

Overview
CompoundTek, Mentor and Lumerical present their seamless integrated design flow that equips you with what you need for your next real-world tape-out.
CompoundTek will introduce its world-class foundry services and silicon photonics PDK featuring a full suite of active and passive devices. Mentor and Lumerical will then demonstrate the PDK centered design flow, by taking a PAM-4 circuit from layout to simulation. Mentor will demonstrate its photonics implementation solutions including Tanner L-Edit Photonics and LightSuite Photonic Compiler. Lumerical will show how you can launch the PAM-4 circuit simulation in INTERCONNECT directly from Tanner L-Edit Photonics. The circuit is reproduced in INTERCONNECT with the CompoundTek compact model library (CML) and can be analyzed with both the frequency and time-domain simulations. Finally, physical verification of the circuit is demonstrated with Calibre DRC.
What You Will Learn
- CompoundTek, Mentor and Lumerical’s partnership that equips you with what you need for your next real world silicon photonics tape-out.
- CompoundTek’s foundry solutions and services, including their PDK with a full suite of active and passive devices.
- Lumerical’s photonic simulation software and ecosystem enablement, including support of compact model libraries for circuit level simulation and integrated design flows.
- Mentor’s photonics implementation solution including Tanner L-Edit Photonics and LightSuite Photonic Compiler

Lester CheungLester Cheung is a senior manager of engineering at CompoundTek. He has over 18 years of experience in semiconductors and EDA experience especially in physical verification. Since joining CompoundTek, he has been deeply involved in expanding CompoundTek’s EPDA ecosystem and continues to work closely with Mentor and Lumerical in enhancing customer experience and enabling customer tapeout success.

Dr. Ellen SchelewEllen Schelew is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Lumerical Inc. She focuses on photonic integrated circuit ecosystem enablement. Her work includes developing EDA-style workflows with photonic simulation and generating compact model libraries calibrated to foundry processes. She holds a PhD in Physics from the University of British Columbia.

Alan ShermanAlan Sherman is the Photonics Product Specialist for Mentor Graphics IC Design Systems division. He has over 20 years of EDA experience in custom IC design. Alan is located in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States.
Who Should Attend
- Design engineers
- PDK engineers
- Researchers
- Master/PhD students
- Managers
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