IntroductionThe research position requires design experience for photonic integrated circuits, either through PhD study or equivalent industrial design. The ambition is to develop and validate standard workflows for circuit specification, simulation, modeling, layout and verification. The candidate should have an affinity for software engineering, an awareness of software package interoperability issues, and an ability to work with both commercial and open source tools and methods. The role is expected to enable the integration of design kits, intellectual property and compact models into automated design processes for photonic circuits.
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Job DescriptionPhotonic integrated circuits enable cutting-edge technology that is shaping the future of our digital society – ultrahigh bandwidth telecommunication, quantum computing, AI datacenters, non-intrusive sensing, LiDAR, and intelligent manufacturing. This fast-moving field has abundant opportunities for innovation and valorization, yet market visibility into photonics skills requirements remains fragmented and incomplete. You will have the opportunity to work on highly complex and high capability platforms and workflows for designing and validating photonic and electronic integrated circuits. You will be part of a team bringing the latest design methods and fabrication processes together for prototypes and production in various market segments including wireless sensing, new forms of computation, communications, biomedical sensing, quantum technologies and more.
The role is funded by the European Chips Design Platform (EuroCDP) – an EU-wide initiative targeted at integrating chip design resources to offer a one-stop shop to designers. By streamlining access, the platform aims to help reduce the economic and technical barriers of chip design, facilitating fast prototyping and upscaling, and thus stimulating the EU semiconductor industry.
Within the project you will develop a full cloud-based photonic integrated circuit design flow using open-source methods and tools. The work includes the necessary improvements and identification of missing open-source EDA tool features, as well as requirements in terms of quality acceptance and documentation. One of the tasks is interfacing open-source tools and defining data flows between them. Integration of the (existing) PDKs and IP blocks into design tools is another activity to be performed in the project. In this role you will interface with various engineering teams from open-source tool developers, cloud service providers, IP block developers, EDA tool developers to integrated circuit designers.
This position will be in the Photonic Integration group, which has played an important role in open standards such as openEPDA.org and within the open access community jeppix.eu.
JePPIX: http://www.jeppix.eu/
EU chip design platform: https://eurocdp.eu/
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