FSIC 2024 Conference Presentation

FSIC 2024 Conference Presentation#

This page involves the outline and resources related to of the presentation: Integrating Mixed-Signal Microelectronics and Photonics: A Co-Design Approach with piel for the 2024 Free Silicon Conference (FSiC).

Presentation#

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Outline#

  • Motivation

    • Most people will have an electronics background.

    • Why co-design?
      • Basic applications of photonics and electronics

        • Opto-electronic control

        • Electro-optic control

        • Concurrent electronic-photonic-system modelling

      • Modelling concurrent photonic-electronic systems

        • Diagram picture here.

        • This is what we want to model.

  • Introduction to piel

    • Python library, container of a collection of examples of co-design flows, and useful functions that streamline interaction between toolsets specifically for co-design, proper dependency management for reproducibility*

    • Uses existing functionality from toolsets, aims to proper dependency management functions and interactions so you don’t get horrible conflicts.

    • Why?

      • Applications of electronic-photonic systems. Massive pain of proprietary toolsets, not easy to interact with.

      • Power of open source PDKs in this context.

      • Was working on quantum photonic systems and it was a massive pain to simulate how the system behaved.

    • An intro to design flows.

  • Let’s go through an example.

    • Towards 07_full_flow_electronic_photonic_demo.

    • Say, we have an optical function we want to demonstrate or implement, extract the logic for that.

    • Go through the flow of implementing that logic via amaranth, synthesizing that logic via openlane, extracting performance parameters accordingly, modelling the analog amplifier accordingly and implementing it via gdsfactory with sky130

    • Model the component with analog, digital circuits simulators accordingly. In the future, add the mixed-signal with full-concurrency for photonic time-domain signals.

    • This is a good example.

    • We can explore say, a cocotb-signal being used to model the transmission of a photonic network.

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