pan>)--Luxtera today announces that it is teaming up with the new foundry
service for Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon (OpSIS). Under
the agreement, Luxteras Silicon
CMOS Photonics device library and process is now open to the OpSIS
community, which shares the cost of fabricating complex chip-scale
systems across many projects. Luxtera is the industry leader in Silicon
Photonics and offers the worlds only solution that is in significant
volume production.
“In working with
OpSIS we are able to advance the wide scale impact of our Silicon
Photonic offering as well as push the envelope for future
commercialization.”
Silicon Photonics continues to be a driving force that supports growing
bandwidth demands of equipment in high performance computing (HPC), next
generation datacenters and cloud computing. Providing key benefits in
reliability, power consumption and signal integrity, Silicon Photonics
is critical to the next generation of system design. In working with
OpSIS, various projects can now have direct access to Luxteras complete
technology platform and proven library of Optical Device Elements that
work with a volume 200mm Silicon CMOS process.
In addition, Luxtera supports a standard tool flow based on industry
leading EDA tools, supporting electronic-photonic co-design. The Luxtera
PDK has been production proven in subsystem and system level
opto-electronic transceiver architectures. The companys and design kit
are the result of years of innovation, all covered by over 115 issued
and pending patents.
Luxtera will be discussing Scaling CMOS photonics transceivers beyond
100 Gb/s at this years SPIE Photonics West Conference taking place in
San Francisco during January 21-26. The panel discussion is scheduled to
take place Tuesday, January 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in conference
room 130. Professor Michael Hochberg will be giving an invited talk
about the status of the OpSIS processes on Wednesday, January 25 at 8:10
a.m. in room 123.
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We are thrilled to be able to offer our community access to Luxteras
unique process. It provides the opportunity to leverage the significant
investment and maturation of the worlds first production proven CMOS
Photonics design flow, said Michael Hochberg, director of OpSIS and
associate professor at the University of Delaware. We believe that this
will significantly accelerate the growth of the Silicon Photonics
ecosystem. Im particularly excited that this process will offer both
academic and industrial users a chance to leverage a full electronics
PDK as well as yield models for the key photonic components in order to
accurately predict the performance and yield of complex
systems-on-a-chip. I see this as a major step forward for the field as
historically much of the innovation has been centered on process
development. Were now moving into an era where Silicon Photonics can
enable a great deal of innovation at the system and architectural level.
Luxtera continues to focus its design resources on delivering products
to high volume applications for Silicon Photonics. There is
significantly more market opportunity than Luxtera can service directly.
With OpSIS, smaller projects are now granted access to Luxteras Silicon
Photonics library, said Greg Young, CEO of Luxtera. In working with
OpSIS we are able to advance the wide scale impact of our Silicon
Photonic offering as well as push the envelope for future
commercialization.
About Luxtera
Luxtera, Inc. is the world leader in Silicon CMOS Photonics. It is the
first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with
integrating high performance optics directly with silicon electronics on
a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct fiber to the chip connectivity
to market. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Luxtera is a fabless
semiconductor company that was founded in 2001 by a team of
industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the
communications and semiconductor industries. Luxtera has received
funding from leading venture capitalists including August Capital, New
Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds and Lux Capital. More
information can be found on the companys web site: www.luxtera.com.
About OpSIS
Our goal at OpSIS is to make the processes for making optoelectronic
integrated circuits available to the community at large, at modest cost,
by sharing the cost of processing across many users of a single mask
set. This model called a shuttle can reduce costs of building new
silicon photonics devices by more than 100x. The OpSIS program will help
advance the field by bringing prototyping capability within reach of
startups and academic research groups.
OpSIS provides design rules, device design support, and assistance with
design-flow development so that even non-specialists can design and
build functioning chips that integrate photonics and electronics. OpSIS
coordinates regular shuttle runs and manages the relationships with its
foundry partners.
OpSIS is in the process of relocating from the University of Washington
to the University of Delaware, and is loosely based on the model
pioneered by MOSIS, the original and highly successful electronic
integrated circuit multi-project wafer service, which was founded in
1981. http://depts.washington.edu/uwopsis/

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