Development of SMART Photonics PDK for Synopsys’ PIC Design Suite Enables a Complete and Seamless InP-Based Design Flow MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Sept 24, 2018 Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) and SMART Photonics today announced that a new, production-ready process design kit (PDK) based on SMART Photonics’ Indium Phosphide (InP) process is now available in Synopsys’ OptSim™ […]
VPIphotonics announces release of an updated VPItoolkit supporting the SMART Photonics Process Design Kit (PDK), which seamlessly integrates Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) simulation and automated mask layout extraction. The open-source Nazca framework, developed by Bright Photonics, is now fully supported, in addition to OptoDesigner developed by PhoeniX Software (part of Synopsys), for the generation of […]
We are very pleased to announce that this week SMART Photonics completed another equity investment round. CFO Robert Feelders: “We collected another € 6 million, mainly from informal investors. Besides this new investment, the majority of our existing informal investors converted their loans into shares (€ 4,5 million), which strengthens our financial position even more. […]
Photon IC technology is maturing and designers need process design kits as the foundation of their design flow. Process design kits facilitate knowledge transfer between foundries and designers on layout and simulation models. SMART Photonics is the world’s first pure-play foundry for Indium Phosphide (InP) photonic semiconductors and offers foundry services to its customers. The […]
SMART Photonics is one of the sponsors of the PIC Conference to be held in Eindhoven on the 2nd of October 2018. We have a booth and will be around to answer your questions. Further SMART Photonics will be participating in the matchmaking event which is co-orginised during the PHAPSS week. If you are around […]
A new paper co-authored by our CTO Luc Augustin has been published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. The paper describes the influence of the unique SMART Photonics scanner technology on our product performance. After registration one can download the paper here
We proudly announce that SMART Photonics’ CEO Richard Visser has been nominated for the EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2018! The nominated entrepreneurs will present themselves to an independent jury on 5 September. This jury selects the finalists. The winners of the title EY (Emerging) Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 will […]
This weekend both SMART Photonics head offices and the main part of the production facilities will move to the High Tech Campus! The High Tech Campus in Eindhoven is a great and vibrant area with a strong history in photonics development and production. This makes this relocation an important milestone in our development from a […]
Synopsys presents a four-day training on photonic design for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The training is aimed at application and R&D engineers as well as managers interested in understanding the development of PICs and the role of software automation in their design, simulation, and fabrication procedures. During this training, participants will receive an overview of […]
Robust time- and frequency-domain compact model library and SMART’s frequent MPW runs raise the bar for prototyping photonic integrated circuit (PIC) designs Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 9th, 2018 Today SMART Photonics announces the availability of a new compact model library (CML) for their InP integrated photonics platform and the associated PDK, resulting from a close […]