Ecosystem Driven Standards Working Groups  
Ecosystem Driven Standards are not only are about driving standards at your company's level, but understanding one level up and one level down in the supply chain for more satisfied customers and suppliers.  If you do not see your company as a "driver", you still want to make sure your standards needs are in the mix so you can better understand and contribute to what is possible or what is not possible. 

Silicon Photonics - Manufacturing at Scale

The standard enables equipment and processes, making it common across customers in one segment and then across other segment markets.  We open the market with standardization to streamline cost effectiveness of packaging, testing, and validation. 

 

Approximately 80% of capital in a new PIC design goes to packaging.  This effort allows the industry to follow the CMOS route.  Standardizing the packaging process will allow a vibrant ecosystem to grow and ultimately emulating the success story of CMOS technology.

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The goal is to collaborate with foundries and enable a “tops down approach” to integrate the packaging guidelines into Silicon Photonics PDKs. Secondly, the see the industrial ecosystem for testing and validating the photonic integrated circuits. 

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Focus:

• silicon photonics based co-packaged optics (CPO)

• leveraging AI high volume manufacturability

• standardization of photonics chiplets inclusion in package

• test interface and strategy

• reliability for CPO, manufacturing volume and test tools

• working together within a proven ecosystem to drive standards
   

Ecosystem Standards Drive:

• Silicon Photonics Packaging Rules

• PDK - Foundry Design Rules

• ADK - Assembly design rules for packaging

• Fiber Attach Specs - (keep out zones, IL/ORL, Power)

• Test methodologies
   

 

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