Examples

List:

• Project Setup Example
  • Enter Docker Environment
  • Install piel
    • Verify your piel installation
  • Example Setup
  • Recommended Project Structure
    • Starting from a default example
    • Create an empty piel project
  • Interacting with the Environment
    • OpenLane v1 Environment
• Run OpenLane Flow
  • OpenLane V1 Flow
    • Interacting with Existing Designs
    • Run Flow spm Design using piel
    • Creating Parametric Designs
    • GDSFactory-OpenLane Layout Integration
    • OpenLane Output Analysis
    • Interacting with the piel flow
  • OpenLane V2 Flow
    • Design Metrics Analysis
• Digital Design & Simulation Flow
  • amaranth Design Flow
    • Integration with the openlane v2 flow
  • cocoTb Simulation
  • Data Visualisation
• Digital Simulation & Layout Design Space Exploration
  • Deployment and Timing of Large-Scale openlane 2
• SAX Integration Basics
  • Basic Generic Component Lattice
    • Extract Netlist
    • Individual Components
  • Passive Network Analysis
  • Phase-Dependent Network Analysis
• Digital & Photonic Cosimulation with sax and cocotb
  • Active MZI 2x2 Phase Shifter
  • Electronic-to-Phase Mapping
    • Ideal Digital-to-Phase Mapping
    • Example simulation from our cocotb simple_design outputs
  • Connecting into Active Unitary Calculations
    • Simple Active 2x2 MZI Phase Shifter
    • Ideal Electronic Load Inaccuracy
  • Active MZI 2x2 Component Lattice
    • Model Composition
    • Controlling our Phase Shifter Instances
    • Algorithmically Extracted Phase-Shifter Instances
    • Connecting this to our digital simulation
    • Plotting Multi-Port Multi-Switch Lattice Data
• Optical Function Verification
  • A Simple MZI Case
  • Circuit Construction
  • Data Extraction
    • Optical Function without \(\pi\)-phase Applied
    • Optical Function with \(\pi\)-phase Applied
    • Formal Verification
    • Automatic Verification
  • Switch Fabric Logic Verification
    • Setup
    • Validation
  • Further Analytical Modelling
• Further Analogue-Enhanced Cosimulation including SPICE
  • Start from gdsfactory
  • Extracting the SPICE circuit and assigning model parameters
  • SPICE Integration
    • Creating our Stimulus
    • Driving our Phase Shifter
• Model Capabilities
• Analogue Circuit Layout & Simulation
  • Going through the Basics
  • Using the gdsfactory-sky130nm Repository
  • Schematic-Driven-Layout
    • Manually editing the SPICE-generated gdsfactory component YAML
    • Automatically mapping layout instances to the YAML
  • (WIP, future integrations) Setting up the required tools: xschem, volare and the sky130nm PDKs
    • Automated schematic-driven-layout
• Quantum Integration Basics
  • Quantum Unitary Representation
    • Starting off from Composed Circuit
    • Quantum Models
    • Translating to Qutip
    • Fock State Evolution Probability
    • Fock-State Generation
    • Sub Circuit Unitary Analysis
  • Lossy Models
• Component Codesign Basics
  • Getting Started with Mode Analysis
    • Examining our Layer Stack
    • Starting where we always do: our heated MZI2x2
    • Getting Started with FDTD in this flow
  • Starting from our heater geometry
• Analytic Electronic-Photonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator Models
  • Coupler Modelling
    • 1x2 Coupler
    • 2x2 Coupler
  • Interferometer Models
    • 2x2 Mach-Zenhder Modulator
  • Phase-Shifter Models
    • More Ideal Model
    • Model Silicon Perturbation Effects (WIP)
    • MZI Transfer Matrix Model
  • Design Tradeoff
• Mixed-Signal & Photonic Cosimulation
  • Logical Electronic-Photonic Co-Design
    • Extracting Cross-Bar Optical Switch States
• Basic Interconnection Modelling
  • Starting from the Basics
    • Modelling a DC Wire
    • Modelling a Coaxial Cable
    • Larger System Modelling