Developing photonic engineering talent in Spain

Valencia, Spain, 24th of November 2022 – UPVfab in cooperation with Synopsys Photonic Solutions, organized a hands-on training for Synopsys Photonic IC design solution. This training at 14, 15 and 16 of November is part of the photonic integration eco-system development in Spain. Design teams from companies iPronics, VLC Photonics, Photonics Research Labs at Universitat Politècnica de València, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, were trained with Synopsys OptoCompiler, OptSim and Photonic Device Compiler.

Dr. Gloria Micó, Facility Manager for UPVfab shared “UPVfab is carrying out process development to establish a manufacturing technology platform. The top-down design flow enabled by OptoCompiler will be key to allow lean access to fabrication, by incorporating our new process design kits to this tool”. The interest in OptoCompiler stems from Synopsys presentations in recent events, such as PIC International. “We have been educating our teams and grade / master /doctoral students following a bottom-up approach, from technology, through basic building block design, up to circuit level. The new tool by Synopsys links schematics, with circuits and layouts, mimicking the flow established in micro-electronics design”, said Prof. Pascual Muñoz, Director for UPVfab.

“I like to thank UPVfab for hosting this training event and the participants from our customers and partners in Spain for a their positive feed-back on the OptoCompiler design cockpit and worfkflow”, says Twan Korthorst, Group Director Photonic Solutions at Synopsys.

About UPVfab
UPVfab is the micro-fabrication R&D and pilot line facility at Universitat Politècnica de València. The facility comprises 500m2 cleanrooms ISO-7 (class 10.000) and positions to serve with automation tools for backend processing of semiconductor wafers.

About Synopsys
https://www.synopsys.com/company.html 

For more information, contact:

UPVfab
Dr. Gloria Micó
Facility Manager, UPVfab Microfabrication Facility,
Universitat Politècnica de València
+34.963.879.760 – gloria.mico@upv.es
https://www.fab.upv.es/

Synopsys
Twan Korthorst
Group Director Photonic Solutions
Synopsys
https://www.linkedin.com/in/twank/