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GlobalFoundries certifies Ansys Lumerical design tools for its platform

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The four photonic solvers will help customers to design high-performance photonic components for the next generation of PICs on the GF Fotonix platform for silicon photonics

Ansys and GlobalFoundries have announced that they have collaborated to certify four Ansys photonic solvers, empowering engineers to simulate passive and active photonic components with high-fidelity in the GF Fotonix platform. Together, the companies aim to enable access to reliable, multiphysics simulation solutions that address design challenges for a range of high-capacity chips – including those used in generative AI, autonomous vehicles, hyperscale datacentre communications, and IoT.

According to GlobalFoundries, GF Fotonix is a feature-rich and highly flexible silicon photonics platform and is the only commercially available foundry platform for the monolithic integration of photonic and electronic components with the option of a photonics-only flow. The photonic components include active devices such as Mach Zehnder and micro-ring modulators and germanium photodiodes, and passive components such as splitters, multi-mode interferometers, phase shifters/rotators, tapers, bends, and filters for wave division multiplexing. The platform allows designers to develop custom solutions for their system applications for high-speed optical communications to address their high-bandwidth, low-latency data transmission, and low power consumption requirements, the company adds.

GF Fotonix has certified four Ansys Lumerical solutions for the GF Fotonix platform: FDTD, MODE, CHARGE, and HEAT. The certifications span a wide range of capabilities, from passive to active photonic component design, including modelling the effects of electrical and thermal stimulus on optical behaviour. Ansys and GlobalFoundries note they have benchmarked the solvers against real measurement data, ensuring high-fidelity simulations for mutual customers.

“The certification of Ansys solutions for the GF Fontonix Platform Development Kit establishes an array of physical design capabilities – including optical, thermal, and electrical – that are critical for our customers,” said Ziv Hammer, senior vice president of design platforms and services at GlobalFoundries. “We are happy to partner with Ansys to help our customers overcome challenges in photonic chip design and empower them to develop tomorrow’s technologies.”

John Lee, vice president and general manager of the electronics, semiconductor, and optics business unit at Ansys, added: “The benefits of photonic communication are immense, but designing PICs is time consuming, costly, and offers no room for error once they go to manufacturing. Naturally, the demand for such high-capacity chips has skyrocketed due to the emergence of compute-heavy technologies like AI. Ansys’ Lumerical solutions are versatile enough to keep pace with these evolving customer needs, empowering them to respond to design challenges with agility and confidence.”

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