OpenLight’s photonics process-design kit became available for Tower Semiconductor’s PH18DA indium-phosphide-on-silicon platform within Cadence tools.

OpenLight made its photonic process-design kit available for Tower Semiconductor’s PH18DA indium-phosphide-on-silicon photonics platform. A process-design kit supplies design rules, models and related resources used to create components compatible with a manufacturing process.

The kit is integrated into Cadence electronic-design-automation tools. This lets designers work on photonic integrated circuits using the PH18DA process within an established chip-design software environment.

OpenLight focuses on heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration and custom photonic application-specific integrated circuits. The announcement concerns design enablement for Tower’s manufacturing platform, rather than the opening of a new fabrication facility or a disclosed production-capacity increase.