Luceda IPKISS Photonics Design Tool

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After June 2026, Luceda users will no longer have access to licenses through CMC, and should contact Luceda for free academic licenses.

Luceda is proud to serve academics in Canada with free licenses of our products. Contact Luceda directly for license access at [email protected]

This will also be accompanied by an onboarding session and ongoing support from our engineers. As a proud CMC partner, we work together to deliver workshops, as well as tapeout/foundry/PDK support. For these, please contact CMC directly

Luceda IPKISS is a Silicon Photonics design tool. It can be used with Tanner design suite to form an integrated design environment, with the following features:
 
  • IPKISS’ PICAZZO library Python-based Pcells
  • Silicon Photonics Schematic design capability through Tanner S-Edit
  • Circuit simulation with CAPHE simulator
  • Silicon Photonics Schematic-driven layout (SDL) generation
  • Layout design and manual modification through Tanner L-Edit
  • Auto Connection for Waveguide and performing Connection Errors checking, etc.
  • Design Example and User Guide Documentations

More information on Luceda IPKISS tool can be found online at https://www.lucedaphotonics.com/en/product/ipkiss-eda.

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