GDS Factory: Build Better Hardware with Better Software

(11:04 + Q&A) Joaquin Matres, GDS Factory
From the 2024 IEEE Symposium on Reliability for Electronics and Photonics Packaging
Summary: For efficient design, verification and validation of integrated circuits and components it is important to have an easy to customize and extend workflow. Python has become the industry standard programming language for machine learning, scientific computing and engineering. GDSFactory is a Python library to build chips  (Photonics, Analog, Quantum, MEMs, …) that provides you a common syntax for design, simulation (Ansys Lumerical, tidy3d, MEEP, MPB, DEVSIM, SAX, Elmer, Palace, …), verification (Klayout DRC, LVS, netlist extraction, connectivity checks, fabrication models) and validation. The paper describes the capabilities of GDSFactory, showcasing its end-to-end workflow for layout, simulation, verification, and validation, enabling users to turn their chip designs into validated products.
Bio: Joaquin Matres is a veteran chip designer with 15 years of experience at top companies such as Intel and Google X. He founded the successful open-source project gdsfactory in 2019, driving innovation in Python-based chip design with over 2 million downloads.

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