Cadence interoperability - Circuit Design Flows

The electronic-photonic design automation (EPDA) environment built upon Virtuoso-INTERCONNECT integration enables schematic-driven designs, simulation, and layout for monolithic/hybrid integrated electronic and photonics circuits.

Getting Started

Find what you need to learn about the Virtuoso-INTERCONNECT integration flows and run your first optical/electro-optical simulation from Virtuoso custom design platform.

Cadence interoperability introduction

• Cadence interoperability overview
• Cadence interoperability workflow
• Introduction video for electro-optical co-design and co-simulation

My first optical simulation from Cadence Virtuoso

• ONA/OTRAN simulation

My first electro-optical co-simulation

• Co-simulation example

My first custom EPDA library

• Workflow

Reference Guide

Find the details of the Cadence interoperability preparation steps. Please refer to environment setup steps in the specific order to properly setup the interoperability environment before building up and running your own simulation circuits.

EPDA Environment setup

• Tools & license requirement
• Install EPDA environment to a new working directory
• Verify EPDA installation
• Load PDK libraries
• Upgrade existing EPDA environment to new version

Simulation user manual

• Optical network analysis (ONA)
• Optical transient analysis (OTRAN)
• Electro-optical co-simulation (CoSim)

Statistical modeling and simulation

• Introduction to statistical CML models
• Statistical simulation

Build custom EPDA library

• Build INTERCONNECT CML model
• Element mapping rules
• PDK verification
• Electrical loads and setup

Application examples

In this section, some application examples on the Cadence interoperability are provided. Please refer to the specific example for different modes of the interoperability.

• PAM4 transceiver
• Statistical PAM4 transceiver

Rapid Adoption Kit

• Rapid adoption kit (host by Cadence)