Virtuoso interoperability workflow

Virtuoso ADE Interoperability

Workflow for environment setup

This page provides the step-by-step workflow overview for the Virtuoso interoperability. At the preparation stage, please setup the EPDA environment based on the follow workflow diagram:

The details for each step are provided in the following pages:

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

Workflow for design and simulation with INTERCONNECT models

The following workflow is used for electro-optical integrated circuit co-design and co-simulation with INTERCONNECT:

And the details for each step are provided in the following pages:

Install EPDA environment to a new working directory
Load PDK libraries
Optical network analysis (ONA) using Virtuoso interop
Optical transient analysis (OTRAN) using Virtuoso interop
Electro-optical co-simulation (CoSim) using Spectre-INTERCONNECT interop

Workflow for design and simulation with photonic Verilog-A models

And the details for each step are provided in the following pages:

System Requirements and Environment Settings for Verilog-A CMLS
Install EPDA environment to a new working directory
Loading the Verilog-A Virtuoso Libraries
Running Verilog-A simulations

Workflow for environment setup

Workflow for design and simulation with INTERCONNECT models

Workflow for design and simulation with photonic Verilog-A models

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