Keysight Technologies has introduced Photonic Designer, a new photonic design automation (PDA) software aimed at improving accuracy, streamlining workflows, and ensuring compliance for photonic integrated circuit (PIC) engineers. As part of Keysight’s Advanced Design System (ADS) tool suite, Photonic Designer addresses common industry challenges such as fragmented toolchains and simulation inconsistencies by providing an end-to-end design, simulation, and validation environment.
The software integrates real-world measurement data into its simulation engine to enhance model precision and compliance verification. Engineers can now validate photonic circuit designs against industry modulation standards before fabrication, customize models to match foundry process conditions, and ensure compatibility with photonic foundry PDKs. Photonic Designer is built to optimize both optical-only and electro-optical-electrical workflows, helping reduce costly design iterations and accelerate time-to-market for PICs.
CompoundTek, a leading photonics foundry service provider, will also offer a verified PDK for Keysight’s Photonic Designer, enabling engineers to design silicon photonic circuits with foundry-ready components. Keysight highlights this new platform as a unified solution that reduces unnecessary tool-switching, simplifies compliance, and delivers high-fidelity results from initial concept to full manufacturing handoff.
• Keysight launches Photonic Designer as part of the ADS suite, streamlining photonic circuit design and simulation.
• Provides physics-based simulations with real-world measurement data integration for enhanced design accuracy.
• Enables pre-fabrication verification against modulation standards and foundry-specific PDK alignment.
• Supports combined optical and electro-optical-electrical workflows in a single design environment.
• CompoundTek releases foundry-verified silicon photonics PDK for Photonic Designer users.
“Photonic Designer provides a single, unified platform that integrates physics-based simulations, PDK customization, and compliance verification, ensuring high-fidelity results from concept to manufacturing,” said Nilesh Kamdar, EDA Design & Verification General Manager at Keysight.
