piel 0.0.33

Photonic and electronic co-simulation system design tools interfaced with open-source design software like GDSFactory and OpenROAD.

piel - Photonic and Integrated ELectronic tools

Photonic and electronic co-simulation system design tools interfaced with open-source design software like GDSFactory and OpenROAD.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://piel.readthedocs.io

Target functionality

• Co-simulation and optimisation between integrated photonic and electronic chip design.
• System interconnection modelling in multiple environments.
• Individual and interposer design integration.
• Multi-domain electronics and photonics component models

piel aims to provide an integrated workflow to co-design photonics and electronics. It does not aim to replace the individual functionality of each design tool, but rather provide a glue to easily connect them all together and extract the system performance.

Dependency Toolset

This package provides a wrapper to easily co-design microelectronics through the functionality of the IIC-OSIC-TOOLS and photonics via GDSFactory.

Some individual tools already integrated are:

• cocotb - a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python.
• GDSFactory - An open source platform for end to-end photonic chip design and validation
• OpenLane v1 - an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on several components including OpenROAD, Yosys, Magic, Netgen and custom methodology scripts for design exploration and optimization
• sax - S-parameter based frequency domain circuit simulations and optimizations using JAX.

Environment Requirements

• Please install the Linux Docker environment provided by IIC-OSIC-TOOLS.