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2002-05-02

Design Workshop Intros Design Tool For Optics

Design Workshop Technologies Inc., makers of the dw-2000 suite of tools, announces their new physical design verification tool for reducing the time-to-market of optical components - XDRC.

Many companies are taking advantage of planar waveguide technologies for their optical component applications ? this trend is expected to continue in the years to come. Companies using planar technology are able to create optical waveguides on substrates utilizing manufacturing processes similar to those used in the semiconductor industry.

Up until now the design automation tools for the photonic industry have been focused on modeling and simulation. However, semiconductor manufacturing requires specialized tools for creating masks and verifying that the established physical design rules for each process are obeyed. Design Workshop is the only company providing optical designers verification software that is perfectly suited for these types of designs.

XDRC provides designers with an automated tool for locating physical design rule violations that are typically found in Photonic devices, including: invalid bend radius, misaligned waveguides, off-grid geometries and gaps between waveguides. With the dw-2000 programming language, scripts can be written to locate errors resulting from more complex rules, or rules that are specific to the designers process technology. XDRC?s comprehensive set of rules and performance is comparable to tools that cost ten times as much.




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