yieldWerx Delivers a Master Class in Co-Packaged Photonics Implementation

We all know the semiconductor industry is seeing a new era of data intensity. The industry’s response includes advanced semiconductor design strategies, the adoption of chiplets, and the integration of optical I/O and photonics to enable higher performance, faster AI computation, and increased modularity. Co-packaged photonics holds great promise, but implementation strategies are complex.

The graphic above illustrates the digital thread that must be followed for effective deployment. It turns out a lot of focus is on items 2 and 3. While useful, the complete lifecycle is needed. yieldWerx is a company that manages this kind of broad data and the required analytics. The company will be presenting a webinar soon that treats these topics and delivers many more critical insights needed to stay ahead of data intensity demands. A link to register is coming but first let’s look at some of the details of how yieldWerx delivers a master class in co-packaged photonics implementation.

The Webinar Presenter

The webinar is presented by Aftkhar Aslam, CEO, CTO and co-founder of yieldWerx. Aftkhar is a semiconductor industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience spanning manufacturing, test engineering, yield management, IP strategy, and enterprise digital transformation.

Prior to founding yieldWerx, Aftkhar held senior leadership roles at Texas Instruments, where he served as Worldwide Director of Test & Yield Management Solutions & Director of Digital Transformation in the space of design and delivery systems and solutions across hardware and software.

He also served as a Director within Accenture’s Industry X (IX) practice, where he advised leading global technology organizations including Intel, GlobalFoundries, Qualcomm, Lam Research, Microsoft, STMicroelectronics, and Skyworks. His consulting work focused on bridging the design-to-manufacturing divide — architecting digital thread and digital twin strategies that connected product design, IP management, manufacturing execution, test, and enterprise systems into unified operational frameworks.

Aftkhar brings a broad view of the problem to this webinar. His insights are quite valuable.

Webinar Topics

The webinar begins with an overview of yieldWerx capabilities and how the it serves the industry. The company delivers a trusted data and yield analytics platform supporting semiconductor companies across fab, assembly, test, advanced packaging, photonics, and AI-driven device manufacturing. Aftkhar explains how the yieldWerx platform enables organizations to unify fragmented manufacturing data into scalable, actionable yield intelligence. He gets into some details about the how the company works and what it delivers. You will find this overview quite valuable.

He then explores the key challenges faced in the photonics industry. The graphic at the top of this post serves as an initial overview of what’s involved. Aftkhar then explains in detail the many CPO challenges. There are about 12 items discussed. They span electrical, optical, thermal, packaging, test, assembly and reliability as well as many others. Items such as optical data complexity, test flow discontinuity and alignment data loss are also explored in detail.

Aftkhar then moves on to dynamic behavior vs. static test, lack of cross-domain correlation, data volume explosion, the lack of standard data model for CPO and the hidden problem of good die vs. bad module. He then brings it all together with an insightful summary. You will learn a lot.

Aftkhar then focuses on how yieldWerx addresses the challenges. Items discussed here include a unified data model, the importance of full genealogy, cross-domain correlation and using AI on non-standard data. Examples of how to apply these concepts on real data are discussed.

Details about how yieldWerx can accelerate your photonics journey are then presented in detail. The organization of the company’s broad services and how they are organized to achieve the required goals is explained. This is followed by specific examples of deployment in real design and manufacturing scenarios. Quite a few examples across a broad range of activities are covered.

After a short summary of the presentation there will be a Q&A session.

To Learn More

Aftkhar is extremely knowledgeable on the topics presented and he covers a great deal of very useful information clearly and concisely. If co-packaged optics is in your future, this webinar is must-see. The webinar will be on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 10AM Pacific Time. You can register here. And that’s how yieldWerx delivers a master class in co-packaged photonics implementation.