新澳门六合彩开奖

2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference: A Comprehensive Wrap-up

Mitch Heins

Mar 16, 2023 / 5 min read

The  conference, held in San Diego, Calif. on March 5-9, is the largest global conference and exhibition for telecom and data center optics, with approximately 12,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors. OFC includes technical sessions, courses, and exhibitions that focus on research and the latest industry applications.

Topics at this year’s conference covered photonic modulation formats and receiver concepts, standards for high-speed optical networking, modeling and simulation of coherent communications, secure optical communications, high-speed lasers and modulators, networking for datacenters and machine learning, photonics for quantum key distribution, photonics for sensing, and much more.

Photonic IC Development Platform

新澳门六合彩开奖 participated as an exhibitor in the conference and showcased several new features of its OptoCompiler photonic IC design automation platform along with demonstrations of performance and interoperability successes of its 224G and 112G Ethernet PHY IP solutions, respectively.  新澳门六合彩开奖 demonstrations included:

  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 OptoCompiler Python-based scripting and automation capabilities
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 OptoCompiler electronic/photonic schematic-driven-layout IC co-design flow
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 IC Validator electronic/photonic layout-vs-schematic and design rule checking flow
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 PrimeSim and OptSim electronic/photonic co-simulation
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 PrimeSim and OptSim electronic/photonic Monte Carlo and variability analysis
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 Photonic Device Compiler suite of Maxwell’s Equations Solvers
  • MetaOptic Designer capabilities for inverse metalens design
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 224G Ethernet PHY IP performance
  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 112G Ethernet PHY IP interoperability

新澳门六合彩开奖 also supported 224G & 112G Ethernet PHY IP interoperability demos at the  (OIF) booth.

新澳门六合彩开奖 demonstrated many new software and IP features at OFC, including:

  • OptoCompiler: A new Python interface for photonic Pcell creation that ties directly into 新澳门六合彩开奖 OptoDesigner curvilinear shape engine functionality. This new capability ensures seamless any-angle abutments and analytic curvilinear shape generation and polygon discretization to adjust for Cartesian grid snapping.
OptoCompiler Python Debugger

  • OptSim: Ability to model frequency-dependent electrical impedance effects of photonic devices during co-simulation of electronic drivers and transimpedance amplifiers with photonic devices. Ability to perform variability analysis on electronic and photonic IC performance using Monte Carlo simulations with stochastic models taking advantage of running parallel simulations across hardware-compute farms.
Monte Carlo and Corner Analyses of Transmitter OMA

  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 Cloud SaaS: Software-as-a-Service model that makes available a complete front-to-back electronic/photonic IC design flow through a flexible cloud-based environment, giving designers unprecedented flexibility for provisioning hardware and design tools.
SaaS Photonic Instance

  • MetaOptic Designer: Inverse design tool that takes user-specified criteria and generates metalenses/metasurfaces for the ultimate in low-profile design performance.
MetaOptic Designer

  • 新澳门六合彩开奖 High-Speed SerDes IP: 224G Ethernet PHY IP and low-power 112G Ethernet PHY IP, interoperating with OpenLight silicon photonics IC transmitter.
新澳门六合彩开奖 112G Ethernet PHY IP with OpenLight SiPh EAM

In addition to live software demonstrations and discussions, Yuval Shay, 新澳门六合彩开奖 Marketing Director, participated in a Silicon Photonics Industrial Workshop panel organized by ePIXfab and Soitec to discuss 3D heterogenous integration and co-design of electronic and photonic ICs in a common package.

新澳门六合彩开奖 staff and industry partners held a series of live presentations and Q&A sessions in our booth to discuss their work to support the industry to adopt photonics and photonic IC technologies. Presenters and their talks included:

Company / Speaker Talk Title
Tower Semi
Ed Preisler
Enhancements in Silicon Photonics Foundry Technology and Design Enablement
OpenLight Photonics
Jae Shin
Design Enablement of an Open Silicon Photonics Platform with Integrated Lasers
iPronics
Diogo Costa
Programmable Photonic Processors: from Lab to Market
PhotonDelta
Carol de Vries
Enabling the Next Wave of Integrated Photonic 新澳门六合彩开奖 Through the PhotonDelta Growth Fund Program
AIM Photonics
Amit Dikshit
AIM Photonics Design Enablement in 新澳门六合彩开奖 Platform
新澳门六合彩开奖
Yuval Shay
新澳门六合彩开奖 Photonic 新澳门六合彩开奖 Overview
新澳门六合彩开奖
Jigesh Patel
53-GBd PAM4 Transmitter for Data Center Interconnects using GF Fotonix Monolithic Silicon Photonics
新澳门六合彩开奖
Madhumita Sanyal
Lighting the Way for HPC with 新澳门六合彩开奖 Photonic IP
新澳门六合彩开奖
Yuval Shay
Introducing 新澳门六合彩开奖 Photonic Solution in the Cloud
新澳门六合彩开奖
Remco Stoffer
Device Development Flow with Python Pcells and Photonic Device Compiler

In terms of industry trends at OFC, it was interesting to see the number of eco-system and intellectual property offerings now coming to the integrated photonics domain including an industry-first, field-programmable photonic processor. It’s also amazing to see large sums of money being invested into start-ups focused on new applications using integrated photonics from government agencies such as PhotonDelta in Europe. It feels like integrated photonics is really starting to take off, as judged by the number of people attending the conference and visiting our booth, as well as the number of companies large and small that are now interacting with 新澳门六合彩开奖.

While OFC is known to be an optical communications conference, attendees from a variety of photonic end application segments including datacom, high-performance computing, LiDAR, bio-sensing, AI hardware accelerators, optical compute engines, and quantum computing were in attendance.

In summary, this year’s OFC was an excellent showcase of photonic technology and an evolving eco-system that shows great promise for growth over the next several decades!

OFC Showcase

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