importtemperaturemap

INTERCONNECT

Imports an Icepak data file (4 column csv file with columns x, y, z, temperature) and some optional arguments to an INTERCONNECT schematic design. It interpolates the temperature map to assign temperature to the elements in the schematic with an active "temperature" property and overwrites the existing temperature expressions, unless this has been deactivated in the optional argument struct.

Syntax	Description
importtemperaturemap(filename, option);	Import the Icepak data file (.csv file) from the specified filename with the optional arguments in the struct "option".

Parameter

Default value

Type

Description

filename

required

string

The name of the csv file to import. May contain complete path to file, or path relative to current working directory

option

optional

struct

The optional arguments are:

'x', 'y': to shift imported temperature map. Default is 0 for both.
'z': to define the z location of the photonic layer (center of silicon layer). Default is 0.
'z span': to define the thickness of the photonic layer. Default is 200 nm.
'visualize': to plot the 2D temperature map with a rectangle showing the circuit inside it. Default is true.
'apply to schematic': to enable/disable applying temperature to circuit. Default is true. The purpose of this option is for when users want to simply check where their circuit fits inside the temperature map. When set to false, there is a warning alerting the user that the temperature map has not been applied to the schematic.

Example

The following script command will import the temperature map data in "myfile.csv" to the current INTERCONNECT schematic design.

importtemperaturemap("myfile.csv",{"x": 100e-9, "y": 100e-9, "z": 0, "z span": 200e-9, "visualize": true, "apply to schematic": true});

Associated files

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