Users can now download evaluation (trial) licenses compatible with Ansys License Manager for all solvers using the ‘Evaluate’ button in the Lumerical Launcher.
DEVICE Suite Enhancements
New ‘Layout Geometry Wizard’ in FDTD allows users to import PCell information from Virtuoso Layout and automatically create a 3D geometry for the Pcell using a compatible foundry process file via layer builder.
Layer builder now supports having multiple masks patterns for the same doping process and generates individual doping objects for each mask pattern.
Sharing solve licenses when running concurrent FDTD simulation on local computer (localhost) is now supported when launching simulation directly from command line.
SYSTEM Suite Enhancements
The new Traveling Wave Optical Modulator Measured (TWOMM) model in INTCTERCONNECT now support complex source and terminating impedances.
CML Compiler updates:
New menu option in the Virtuoso EPDA environment will allow users to automatically set up simulation and environment settings for their photonic Verilog-A simulations. Note that while running photonic Verilog-A simulation does not require setting up the EPDA environment, this new feature is only available when the EPDA environment is set up.
The Verilog-A ring_modulator photonic model now supports compact model generation for dual-bus ring resonators and dual-bus ring modulators.
Passive Verilog-A models generated by CML Compiler now support mode conversion allowing users to create compact models such as polarization coverters or polarization rotators.