Fully integrated Photonic design automation
One connected place to design, simulate, lay out, and verify photonic integrated circuits.
Built for Apple silicon. Designed for photonics.
Schematic, simulation, layout, and project context. Move through real workspaces without losing the design thread.
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Work with the circuit as an engineering system—not a collection of disconnected files.
Understand the circuit first
Run SAX simulations beside the schematic and save the result in the same project. Sweeps, traces, and design context remain connected.
Write less layout plumbing.
Describe the layout the way you think about it. Place components relative to one another, connect named ports, and let the PDK carry the routing details. Lumicron’s layout API is designed to turn engineering intent into physical geometry without burying it in coordinate math.
@lm.pcell
def MZI(
span: float = 300,
imbalance: float = 60,
):
c = lm.CELL("MZI")
splitter = c.add(
pdk.NxM_MMI(n_inputs=1, n_outputs=2))
combiner = c.add(
pdk.NxM_MMI(n_inputs=2, n_outputs=1))
(c.Place(combiner).right_of(splitter)
.move_by(span, 0))
c.Route(
splitter.ports["o2"],
combiner.ports["i2"],
profile=pdk.RP.silc_strip)
(c.Route(
splitter.ports["o1"],
combiner.ports["i1"],
profile=pdk.RP.silc_strip)
.jog("S", by=imbalance))
return c
Close the loop.
Check supported process rules using the project or PDK verification deck.
Compare the physical implementation against the intended circuit connectivity.
Why Lumicron exists
The design record should travel with the work—from schematic and simulation to physical layout, verification, and the lab.
The work moves between views. The project retains what the engineer meant.
Open your project and see what exists, what ran, and what still needs verification. Design files, the active PDK, saved simulations, and Phoebe stay together so the next decision starts with the whole project in view.
Mac native
Inspect directly. Automate in Python. Both act on the same PDK-aware project.
Phoebe
Fully functional offline. Connect online to a commercial AI provider of your choice when you want frontier capabilities.
Phoebe can inspect the current project’s source, PDK, layout, schematic, and saved results through the access you grant. Here, it answers from Oriel1’s recorded simulation.
Design on Mac. At the probe station, use the iPad companion to navigate a chip, locate devices, and record supported measurements in layout context.
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