gplugins 1.4.0

gdsfactory plugins

gplugins 1.4.0

GDSFactory plugins:

• Device simulators
  • Meshing
  • FDTD
    • Ansys Lumerical
    • tidy3d
    • Luminescent
    • FDTDz
    • MEEP
  • FEM
    • femwell Finite Element Method Solver (heaters, modes, TCAD, RF waveguides).
    • elmer for electrostatic (capacitive) simulations.
    • palace for full-wave driven (S parameter) and electrostatic (capacitive) simulations.
  • EME
    • meow Eigen Mode Expansion (EME).
  • Mode Solver
    • Tidy3d
    • Femwell
    • MPB
  • TCAD
    • devsim TCAD device simulator.
• Circuit simulations
  • sax S-parameter circuit solver.
  • vlsir for parsing GDS-extracted circuit netlists into Cadence Spectre, NgSpice and Xyce Schematic File formats.

Installation

You can install most plugins with:

pip install "gdsfactory[full]" --upgrade

or

pip install "gplugins[devsim,femwell,gmsh,schematic,meow,meshwell,sax,tidy3d]" --upgrade

Or install only the plugins you need. For example:

pip install "gplugins[schematic,femwell,meow,sax,tidy3d]" --upgrade

Non-pip plugins

The following plugins require special installation as they can't be installed with pip:

• For Meep and MPB you need to use conda or mamba on MacOS, Linux or Windows WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) with conda install pymeep=*=mpi_mpich_* -c conda-forge -y
• For Elmer, refer to Elmer FEM – Installation for installation or compilation instructions each platform. Gplugins assumes ElmerSolver, ElmerSolver_mpi, and ElmerGrid are available in your PATH environment variable.
• For Palace, refer to Palace – Installation for compilation instructions using Spack or Singularity. Gplugins assumes palace is available in your PATH environment variable.

Installation for contributors

We recommend uv for installing GDSFactory:

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Then you can install gdsfactory with:

uv venv --python 3.11
uv sync --extra docs --extra dev

Getting started

• Read docs
• Read gdsfactory docs
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