ubcpdk 0.0.8

UBC Siepic Ebeam PDK from edx course

# UBC PDK 0.0.8

UBC SiEPIC Ebeam PDK from [edx course](https://www.edx.org/course/silicon-photonics-design-fabrication-and-data-ana)

## Installation

### Installation for users

You can install directly from pip pip install ubcpdk specify a specific version pip install ubcpdk==0.0.8 and update to the latest version with pip install ubcpdk –upgrade

If you are on Windows, I recommend you install gdsfactory with Anaconda3 or Miniconda3.

I also reccommend you install the gdsfactory link to klayout gt tool install

` conda install -c conda-forge gdspy pip install ubcpdk --upgrade gf tool install `

### Installation for developers

For developers you need to git clone the github repository, fork it, git add, git commit, git push and merge request your changes.

` git clone https://github.com/gdsfactory/ubc.git cd ubc pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade pip install -r requirements_dev.txt --upgrade pip install pre-commit pre-commit install python install_tech.py gf tool install `

## Acks

UBC pdk top contributors:

• Lukas Chrostowski (UBC professor): creator of the course and maintainer of the PDK cells

• Joaquin Matres (Google): maintainer of gdsfactory

• Alex Tait (Queens University): maintainer of lygadgets

Open source heroes:

• Matthias Köfferlein (Germany): for Klayout

• Lucas Heitzmann (University of Campinas, Brazil): for gdspy

• Adam McCaughan (NIST): for phidl

• Alex Tait (Queens University): for lytest

• Thomas Ferreira de Lima (NEC): for pip install klayout

Links:

• [UBC docs](https://gdsfactory.github.io/ubc/) and [repo](https://github.com/gdsfactory/ubc)

• [edx course](https://www.edx.org/course/silicon-photonics-design-fabrication-and-data-ana)

• [siepic Ebeam PDK](https://github.com/lukasc-ubc/SiEPIC_EBeam_PDK)

• [gdsfactory](https://gdsfactory.github.io/gdsfactory/)

• [awesome photonics list](https://github.com/joamatab/awesome_photonics)