Silicon Photonics Design Course (3rd Edition)
17th to 21st June 2019 at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
Scope & target Audience
The Specialist Course on Silicon Photonics Design offers a focused, hands-on design course. It is targeted at researchers and engineers with an already fundamental understanding of photonic integrated circuits. The course focused on the process to translate a photonic circuit idea into a working chip, going from schematic design and circuit simulation to layout, routing and interactive design rule checking. As part of the course, the participants get the opportunity to actually tape-out a design that will be fabricated with an e-beam prototyping service and characterized. Based on these results, the design can be improved and submitted to a wafer-scale multi-project-wafer run of which the participants will receive the final chips.
Key features of the course
Gain fundamental understanding of silicon photonics design
Circuits, components, simulation, layout, tape-outs, …
Five days hands-on design lab going all the way from idea to PIC
Get your own design fabricated and tested by measurements
Practical information
Content of the course
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Introduction to the course |
Design flow of silicon PICs |
Circuit design and simulation (frequency and time domain) |
Construction and simulating circuits |
Introduction to Australian silicon photonics |
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Introducing the tape-outs and PDKs |
Silicon photonics ecosystem |
PCells, parametric and custom layout |
Simulation models for components |
Lean techniques in fabless environment and playing the “fab game” |
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Optical wavelength filters |
Component design and electromagnetic simulation |
Component designs, simulation and optimizations |
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CMOS process technology for photonics |
Design rule checking |
Project work and exercises |
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Design for manufacturability |
Variablity and parasitics |
Analysis of measurement data |
Tape-out process and design verification |
Data analysis and parameter extraction |
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