GlobalFoundries & Synopsys

GF Fotonix™ is a monolithic platform that combines 300mm photonics and 300 GHz-class RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer. It is ideal for applications such as HPC, datacom, LiDAR, IoT, and optical computing. The Synopsys unified electro-optical co-design solution supports the process design kit (PDK) offered by GF with an end-to-end seamless design flow that includes schematic capture and layout synthesis with OptoCompiler™, simulation with Synopsys PrimeSim™ and Synopsys OptSim™, and design rule checking (DRC) and layout versus schematic (LVS) with Synopsys IC Validator™. The flow also supports PDK-driven design and custom design with Synopsys’ Photonic Device Compiler.

Integrated technology-proven process design kits (PDKs) and silicon-proven standard cell libraries are included in the jointly-developed reference flows. These “starter kits” provides customers with a built-in test case for out-of-the-box physical implementation, testing and analysis of performance, power and area considerations. Most recently, Synopsys has qualified its GF 22FDX reference flow on AWS. Designing in the cloud offers speed and efficiency advantages by overcoming compute capacity bottlenecks and utilizing dynamic scaling at all stages of design. The qualified flow is a result of a multi-year collaboration on co-optimized tools and methodologies that maximize the power, performance and area benefits of the GF 22FDX process. Synopsys’ automotive reference flow for ASIL-D designs on GF's 22FDX process leverages DesignWare ARC® Processor IP to provide designers with a comprehensive solution that accelerates time-to-market for SoC-level ISO 26262 qualification.