PhoeniX Software Brings Integrated Photonic Solutions From A Concept Into A Manufacturable Design

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PhoeniX Software enables easy and cost-effective realization of integrated photonics chips and systems. The company is pioneering photonics design automation since 1991, today PhoeniX Software has a global presence and is a trusted and well recognized partner for a large number of organizations. Below is our interview with Niek Nijenhuis from PhoeniX Software:

Q: What is your core competence?

A: We help our customers bringing integrated photonics solutions from a concept into a manufacturable design. Supporting them to transition from research to development to successful product introduction in a variety of application areas. The challenge in this emerging industry is to bridge the gap between system and chip designers and the fabrication technologies. PhoeniX Software’s core competence is to enable easy and cost-effective realization of integrated photonics chips and systems, by means of our internally developed first-class design software covering the entire design flow and focusing on manufacturability. Based on our extensive knowledge of design and fabrication of photonic integrated circuits we are the only company selling software tools that support an efficient transfer from designer intent to final design, enabling better photonic chip designs in less time.

Q: Tell us something more about the company?

A: Pioneering photonics design automation already since 1991, today PhoeniX Software has a global presence and is a trusted and well recognized partner for a large number of organizations. We enable easy and cost-effective realization of integrated photonics chips and systems, by means of our internally developed superior products and services. Our customers range from large OEM’s to start-ups and include some of the world’s top universities and research institutes. As the leader in Photonic IC design solutions, we are further developing the market by anticipating market demand and customer needs. In combination with our strategic partnerships with fabs, packaging providers and other software vendors, this results in offering world class integrated design flows and access to all relevant fabrication technologies for our customers. PhoeniX Software is privately owned and headquartered in the Netherlands, a prominent integrated photonics innovation hub in the world.

Q: You’ve recently announced partnership with Sandia National Laboratories; tell us something more?

A: Silicon photonics holds the potential to become a cost-effective, scalable technology for the production of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to address applications including high-performance optical networking, data center interconnects, signal processing and biological and chemical sensing. A comprehensive photonics process design kit (PDK) is critical to enabling a design methodology that ensures predictable operation and reliable, repeatable fabrication of complex PIC designs for these demanding applications. PhoeniX Software and Sandia National Laboratories are jointly developing a photonics PDK for Sandia’s integrated photonics manufacturing processes. Collaborating with Sandia National Laboratories not only fits our company strategy, but also contributes towards our common goal which is creating an easy access and well-functioning ecosystem for our mutual customers to be able to realize their designs.

Q: What makes PhoeniX Software a good choice?

A: PhoeniX Software has a rich history in integrated photonics going back to 1991. By working with PhoeniX Software you get the benefit of our years of photonic knowledge and expertise as well as state-of-the-art design and verification tools for your photonics projects. Working with PhoeniX Software, you also benefit from our expert knowledge in fabrication technologies and our close ties with the leading photonics foundries. More recently there has also been a move in the industry towards more integrated photonic and electronic IC design work. As reckognized leader in photonic IC design, PhoeniX Software has announced work with both Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems, two of world’s premier electronic design automation companies, towards integrated design tool flows that use the best of both the photonic and electronic design automation worlds.

Q: Who is your ideal customer and why?

A: The ideal customer for PhoeniX Software is an organisation that understand the power of integrated photonics and is looking to leverage design re-use and block-based design methodologies to bring a family of high-value Photonic Systems-on-Chip (PSoC) IC solutions to bear in their market space. PhoeniX Software’s ability to enable designers to quickly synthesize photonic IC-layouts from a variety of building blocks lets designers explore a larger solution space in a shorter amount of time which improves overall product quality and lowers design costs and risks.

Q: What can we expect from PhoeniX Software in the future?

A: As the leader in Photonic IC design solutions, we will continue to develop the market by anticipating market demand and customer needs. PhoeniX Software will continue its efforts to increase designer productivity enabling them to produce more complex value-added solutions in shorter periods of time while simultaneously adding features that will help in lowering designer risk. In combination with our strategic partnerships, PhoeniX Software will also be working to bring world class design flows to market that enable the integration of photonic and electronic designs for both monolithic and multi-die/package solutions.

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