Cadence to run workshop on system level Photonic integration
Cadence, Lumerical and PhoeniX to demonstrate the latest innovations and solutions
Cadence Design Systems along with Lumerical Solutions, and PhoeniX Software, plan to demonstrate the latest innovations and solutions in photonic ICs at the Photonics Summit and Workshop on September 6th and 7th at Cadence headquarters in San Jose, California. This free, two-day event features presentations from industry experts on day one and a hands-on workshop with photonics experts on day two.
On day one, Andrew Wheeler, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow and deputy director of Hewlett Packard Labs, will share how HPE's ongoing stream of innovations in VCSEL and silicon photonics will enable the industry to meet bandwidth, power, cost and packaging challenges as we move into the petascale era and look towards the exascale. Wheeler is one of the key minds behind Memory-Driven Computing, a new, scalable architecture that uses photonic communication as an essential component. In this session
Paul Fortier, advisory engineer, optoelectronic and semiconductor packaging development, IBM Assembly and Test Services, will talk about automated high-throughput assembly processes for photonic packaging. IBM has developed low-cost and scalable packaging approaches for optical fibre interfacing to the photonics die, using both a compliant polymer interface and a parallelized fibre array, as well as a photonic flip-chip approach for the integration of secondary photonic chips, such as lasers. This technology has reached the yield and reliability testing stage and is to be offered as a service at the IBM assembly and test manufacturing center in Bromont, Canada.
Other speakers include Michal Rakowski of IMEC who will talk about the iSiPP50G Platform and 300mm SiPh Interposer Platform; Dan Neugroschl president, Chiral Photonics, who will give an overview of optical I/O considerations for PICs; and Pavel Zivny, Tektronix High Speed Serial Data Measurements expert, will give a brief presentation assessing current state of the art in evaluation of optical transmitters for PAM2 and PAM4 links.
Aaron Rulison and Annette Grot from Pacific Biosciences will talk about optics and photonics of single molecule Ssquencing. Pacific Bioscience's uses fluorescence encoding to detect in real time the sequence of DNA nucleotides. We begin with a case study of our illumination instrumentation, which uses hybrid integrated and free space optics. We progress to the highly integrated sequencing devices and describe the variety of different modeling tools needed for design.
On day two there will be a hands-on photonics workshop for designers who want to experience the system-level electronic and photonic design flow first hand.
