Electrical Components¶

Electrical wires & components are an important piece of designs. While IPKISS doesn’t replace existing electronics design tools we provide basic functionality to place electrical wires on your design in order to integrate photonics and electrical components effectively.

ElectricalWire¶

The behavior of ElectricalWire is very similar to that of Waveguide.

class ipkiss3.all.ElectricalWire(*args, **kwargs)¶

A basic electrical trace ( wire )

Parameters

trace_template: PCell and ElectricalWireTemplate
external_port_names: str: Dictionary for remapping of the port names of the contents to the external ports
name: String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters: The unique name of the pcell

Other Parameters

contents: PCell and _Trace, locked

Notes

This is a very basic version of an electrical wire, variations exist to suit your more advanced needs

Examples

>>> from technologies import silicon_photonics
>>> from ipkiss3.pcell.wiring import ElectricalWireTemplate, ElectricalWire
>>> etpl = ElectricalWireTemplate('my_ewire_tpl')
>>> wire = ElectricalWire(name="my_ewire", trace_template=etpl)
>>> layout = wire.Layout(shape=[(0, 0), (0, 50), (50, 50)])
>>> layout.visualize(annotate=True)

Views

Layout = <class 'ipkiss3.pcell.wiring.trace.ElectricalWire.Layout'>¶

Netlist = <class 'ipkiss3.pcell.wiring.trace.ElectricalWire.Netlist'>¶

ElectricalWireTemplate¶

TraceTemplate used to create electrical wires.

class ipkiss3.all.ElectricalWireTemplate(*args, **kwargs)¶

A TraceTemplate to easily create electrical wires

Parameters

name: String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters: The unique name of the pcell

Views

Layout = <class 'ipkiss3.pcell.wiring.trace.ElectricalWireTemplate.Layout'>¶

Netlist = <class 'ipkiss3.pcell.wiring.trace.ElectricalWireTemplate.Netlist'>¶

ElectricalWindowWireTemplate¶

As with waveguides you can create new templates for your electrical wires. This way you can build more custom & specialized wires.

class ipkiss3.all.ElectricalWindowWireTemplate(*args, **kwargs)¶

An advanced trace template that is used to define electrical wires using ‘windows’. These windows will be extruded extruded along the shape of the wire

Parameters

name: String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters: The unique name of the pcell

Electrical Vias¶

Vias are components that connect a metal layer with another one that is above or below it using via shapes. Those shapes are also used in the electrical ports in the via. IPKISS only contains base classes for vias should you want to make your own.

`ElectricalVia`	Class for common electrical vias.
`GenericElectricalVia`	Most generic class for electrical vias.