Designing Electro-Optical Chips

Key Takeaways: Silicon photonics is moving into mainstream AI, data center, and communications systems, but the design flow still needs tighter integration between photonic, electronic, package, thermal, and system-level tools. Existing EDA infrastructure can be reused for photonics, but waveguides, optical phase, wavelength, polarization, thermal drift, and compact modeling require specialized simulation and verification methods. The biggest unresolved gap is functional verification, because ph