Design Kit: Siemens L-Edit Photonics for the Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF) Silicon Photonics Fabrication Process

• Process Design Kit (PDK)—confidential, designed for Siemens L-Edit Photonics for the Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF) General-Purpose process. This PDK includes:
  • A complete process layer definition
  • Calibre design rule decks for Design Rule Check (DRC) to verify a design against the process specifications
  • Device Library supplied by AMF for Silicon-verified Design, including Basic Programmable Cells and Black Box Cells
  • Script of examples using User Programmable Interface (UPI) functions for creation of photonics device
  • Preliminary Build-in DRC rules using L-Edit checker
  • Component model for Lumerical Interconnect tool (in a future update)
  • AMF documentation
• PDK User Guide—confidential, provides instructions for installing and configuring the PDK for Siemens L-Edit Photonics for the AMF General-Purpose process. It describes these tasks:
  1. Installation of Tanner and PDK
  2. Layout Creation using AMF Library
  3. Creating UPI Macros and Programmable T-Cells
  4. Run Tanner DRC at L-Edit During Layout Creation Process
  5. Importing and Exporting a Design
  6. Running a Calibre Design Rule Check at CMC Cloud
  7. Running Tiling scripts and Merging Layouts at CMC Cloud
  8. Layer Map and General Layout Rules

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