Optiwave.com - Optical SPICE
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OptiSPICE is the first circuit design software for analysis of integrated circuits including interactions of optical and electronic components. It allows for the design and simulation of opto-electronic circuits at the transistor level, from laser drivers to transimpedance amplifiers, optical interconnects and electronic equalizers.
OptiSPICE produces self-consistent solutions of opto-electronic circuits that contain feedback spanning both optical and electrical parts. OptiSPICE is a fully-integrated solution for parameter extraction, schematic capture, circuit simulation and waveform analysis.
With the imminent coexistence of electrical and optical components at the chip and board level, it is important to provide designers with a reliable simulation framework that can accurately and efficiently predict signal behaviour in opto-electronic integrated circuits and boards.
Simulation of optical and electrical components simultaneously is a multi-disciplinary problem. Equations governing optical and electrical components are incompatible for co-simulation within traditional numerical engines. In addition, optoelectronic components are temperature dependent and this dependence needs to be incorporated into the simulation to obtain correct results. Temperature effects are particularly important for the modeling of optical devices integrated on a common substrate with high power electrical components such as laser drivers. In this case the close proximity of the electronics and optical elements such as lasers produces significant thermal coupling. The coupling of the electrical, optical and thermal domains in such a situation requires a self-consistent solution.
OptiSPICE is the only circuit design software for the self-consistent simulation of optical, electrical and thermal energy domains. The optical elements are represented by delay-differential equations, the electrical circuit by algebraic differential equations and the thermal circuit by a set of first order nonlinear heat diffusion equations. Supporting a wide variety of electrical circuit elements such as diodes, transistors, BJTs and MOSFETS along with optical components such as laser diodes, optical fibers and photodiodes; OptiSPICE provides transient time domain, small-signal frequency, and noise analysis.
Specific Benefits
Significantly reduce product development costs and boost productivity through OptiSPICE comprehensive design environment to simulate optical and electrical circuits in one simulation engine.
Run state-of-the-art transient time domain, small-signal frequency, and noise analysis to accurately predict behaviour of advanced opto-electronic circuits.
OptiSPICE Schematics offers direct schematic entry in an intuitive graphical user interface. It allows for greater ease of schematic capture, parameter specification, waveform probing and usage.
Waveform analysis using OptiSystem for complex post-processing functionality. Advanced visualization tools produce OSA Spectra, signal chirp, eye diagrams, polarization state, constellation diagrams and much more.
Includes parameter extraction tools for OptiSPICE model creation. From measurement data, parameter extractors are used to find the best set of OptiSPICE model parameters to fit the measurement.
Applications
Design and simulation of opto-electronic circuits at the transistor level, from laser drivers to transimpedance amplifiers, optical interconnects and electronic equalizers.
Signal integrity analysis of opto-electronic circuits, including eye diagram analysis with BER patterns
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Optiwave's suite of software tools include OptiSystem, OptiFDTD, OptiBPM, OptiSPICE, OptiGrating, and OptiFiber.
