OpenLight and Tower expand PH18DA photonics ecosystem to accelerate photonic IC development

Photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) chip designer and manufacturer OpenLight of Goleta, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which launched as an independent company in 2022, introducing the first open silicon photonics platform with heterogeneously integrated III-V lasers, modulators, amplifiers and detectors) and specialty analog foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd of Migdal Haemek, Israel have announced the availability of OpenLight’s photonic process design kit (PDK) for Tower’s PH18DA indium phosphide (InP)-on-silicon photonics platform in Cadence’s electronic design automation (EDA) tools...