Date: 4th December 2019

Time: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Singapore) / 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (US/Pacific)

Presenting a seamless, integrated design flow that equips you with what you need for your next real-world tape-out, this first webinar to be jointly hosted by CompoundTek, Mentor and Lumerical will see:

• CompoundTek introducing its world-class foundry services and silicon photonics PDK featuring a full suite of active and passive devices.
• Mentor and Lumerical demonstrating the PDK-centred design flow by taking a PAM-4 circuit from layout to simulation. 
• Mentor will additionally showcase its photonics implementation solutions including Tanner L-Edit Photonics and LightSuite Photonic Compiler.
• Lumerical to bring to life the launch of the PAM-4 circuit simulation in INTERCONNECT directly from Tanner L-Edit Photonics. 

The circuit is reproduced in INTERCONNECT with CompoundTek’s compact model library (CML). 

Join us to also discover how this can be analysed with both the frequency and time-domain simulations and to better appreciate the physical verification of the circuit with Calibre DRC. 

Learn more about the event or register: https://www.mentor.com/tannereda/events/mentor-lumerical-real-world-design-flow-for-real-world-designs-with-compoundtek

SANTA ROSA, Calif; LIVERMORE, Calif.; SINGAPORE, November 14, 2019 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM), a leading provider of essential test and measurement technologies along the full IC life cycle and CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging silicon photonic solutions (SiPh), have joined forces to accelerate integrated photonics innovations.

Integrated photonics, also called silicon photonics, is a revolutionary technology that multiplies data transfer capacities while reducing power consumption and cost.

Keysight, FormFactor and CompoundTek, have jointly developed an advanced photonics on-wafer testing solution that delivers industry-first capabilities including automated alignment, simultaneous optical-optical and optical-electrical device tests.

The joint solution, to be offered by CompoundTek includes:

• The FormFactor CM300xi-SiPh, with automated wafer level photonics positioning combined with Keysight’s industry standard IL/PDL engines and N7700A Photonics Application Suite (PAS), to support wavelength repeatability of ±1.5 pm at two-way sweeps up to 200 nm/s within 1240nm to 1650nm to ensure accuracy and repeatability from O-band to L-band.
• Keysight’s N4372E 67 GHz Lightwave Component Analyzer which delivers unpreceded bandwidth for both optical receiver testing and optical transmitter testing with guaranteed specifications for electro-optical S-parameter measurements for device traceability.
• Keysight’s PathWavesoftware platform which provides a consistent user experience, common data formats and control interfaces.
• FormFactor’s SiPh software that enables automated calibrations and alignments and simplifies integration with Keysight’s PathWave software platform, as well as optical instrumentation, to ensure ease of use.

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Design Cycle Time to Tape Out Reduced to Two Weeks

Singapore, and Vancouver, BC, 8 November 2019 – CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging silicon photonic solutions (SiPh), today announces the tapeout of a reduced footprint grating coupler for photonic I/O. The grating couplers were designed and optimised using photonic inverse design (PID) in conjunction with Lumerical’s industry leading FDTD nanophotonic simulator. Lumerical’s PID capability enables photonic designers to rapidly develop entirely new functionality with improved performance, reduced footprint, and more robust manufacturability.

“With this successful tapeout in partnership with Lumerical, customers will be able to access Lumerical’s PID solution with confidence when taping-out to CompoundTek in the future. The integration into our design flow, design partners and open SiPh manufacturing platform ecosystem will accelerate the adoption of SiPh solutions for various applications ranging from datacom transceivers, smart sensor, bio-medical, automotive LiDAR, quantum computing and artificial intelligence,” said KS Ang, Chief Operating Officer, CompoundTek.

The SiPh grating coupler is a key functional block for photonic I/O, enabling light to be coupled from fibre into and out of a photonic integrated circuit. Unlike end-fire edge couplers, grating couplers can be located anywhere on chip, enabling additional applications such as sense and test. With this flexibility comes the requirement for reduced footprint while maintaining high coupling efficiency. However, with over 100 design parameters, grating couplers are geometrically complex, rendering traditional optimisation techniques impractical. Lumerical’s PID technology enables designers to automatically and reliably generate optimal grating couplers with hundreds of free parameters. Testimony to its effectiveness, CompoundTek’s SiPh new grating couplers have been reduced in size by 20x and promise improved coupling efficiency.

“These new grating couplers will enable our customers to create improved commercial designs with higher yields and faster time to market,” said Lumerical CTO, James Pond. “PID’s powerful optimisation algorithms leverage adjoint sensitivity analysis to explore design spaces that are impractical by other means. Coupled with Lumerical’s industry leading FDTD solver, PID enables designers to efficiently explore and optimise designs with hundreds or more design parameters. In contrast, traditional design approaches are limited to a small number of established device designs, exploring much smaller parameter spaces, typically fewer than ten parameters.”

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Singapore, 23 Aug 2019 – CompoundTek continues to advance Singapore’s global footprint in niche semiconductor capabilities as it moves into the final stages of formalising its plans to build a new state-of-the-art silicon photonics testing services hub. In collaboration with select government partners, the facility will centre on SiPh on-wafer testing, housing state-of-the-art equipment, instrument controls and test methodologies that are custom-built by CompoundTek and its technology partners.

Catering to the development of solutions that revolutionises data-transmission capabilities sought after in data centres, interconnectivity, Lidar, smart sensors and other high-growth applications; the testing hub is poised to serve the explosive volume production expected in the next five years. It aims to strengthen Singapore’s designing and commercialisation capabilities while driving the public-private partnership agenda within the industry.

Designed to achieve fast and reproducible optical coupling, including 6-axis probe-position optimisation and polarisation alignment; wafer probing for conventional DC and RF electrical testing in the optical domain; and supports both O and C-band; the facility will enable test of electro-optical components up to 67GHz and is ideally suited for electro-optical components for 400Gbit/s or higher.

With added on-wafer level automated Si photonics Optical/Electrical/RF testing facility, customers will be able to limit packaging costs to good dies (Known-Good-Die) only and avoid module packaging level testing turn-around time losses. This complements CompoundTek’s current market solutions in mass production volume with fast cycle-time, offered alongside world-class commercial foundry capabilities that accelerates time-to-market to achieve customers’ commercialisation goals.

The facility, manned by the company’s technical experts, will combine CompoundTek’s existing capabilities in SiPh commercialisation of technologies and its partnerships with global renowned research institutes.

More details on this exciting expansion, to follow.

For technical and product development, please contact enquiries@compoundtek.com

Singapore, 22 Aug – CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging silicon photonic (SiPh) solutions recently partnered with Luceda Photonics, a leader in integrated photonics design automation. Together they will expand CompoundTek’s silicon photonics Process Design Kit (PDK) offering to enable Luceda’s IPKISS platform for a global commercial customer base.

Photonic IC technology is maturing fast with designers needing PDKs as the foundation of their design flow. Providing a reliable and scalable design flow, the PDKs additionally facilitate knowledge transfer between foundries and designers on layout and simulation models. The IPKISS platform combines layout, smart physical simulation and circuit level design and simulation, in one single quality-controlled PDK. The PDK can be used from IPKISS.flow, and from IPKISS.eda integrated in the Siemens / Tanner flow, enabling customers to make significant strides forward in creating design flows that are more reliable and scalable.

Pivotal to the consolidation of knowledge in the context of a fast-moving industry, the IPKISS platform is instrumental to producing a scripting environment that covers the complete photonic IC design flow up to measurement feedback for true component validation. This is suited for niche solutions spanning interconnectivity, datacom transceivers, bio-sensing, smart sensors, LiDAR, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.

The IPKISS platform offering is in line with CompoundTek’s vision in driving the adoption of niche SiPh-based applications and in facilitating the commercialisation goals of its global customer base. 

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Singapore, 6 Aug –  CompoundTek confirms its partnership with leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) vendor Mentor, a Siemens business, and leading photonic simulation software provider Lumerical to deliver CompoundTek’s SiPh Process Design Kit (PDK) across its global commercial customer base. Available immediately, the PDK’s predictive capabilities enable photonics designers to validate designs prior to manufacturing thus enabling reduction of the time from product design to market launches.

The photonics design automation solution by Lumerical and Mentor, combined with CompoundTek’s open SiPh manufacturing process platform, will accelerate SiPh adoption for applications ranging from datacom transceivers, bio-sensing, smart sensors, LiDAR, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, explains KS Ang, Chief Operating Officer, CompoundTek.

The PDK includes active and passive devices such as optical waveguide devices, fibre-to-waveguide couplers, high-speed waveguide Ge photo-detectors and high-speed modulators. SiPh designers can leverage these pre-developed blocks to design and verify their photonics products more quickly and efficiently before fabricating physical prototypes.

A complete design flow enabled by the PDK includes photonic simulation, schematic capture, custom layout, layout automation, and physical verification. Tools enabled include Lumerical INTERCONNECT, as well as Mentor’s L-Edit Photonics, LightSuite Photonic Compiler, and industry-leading Calibre™ platform physical verification tools.

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Booth No: 1A64-9, Hall1, Optical Communications Expo, Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Centre, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Date: 4-7 September 2019

CompoundTek, a global market leader in silicon photonics foundry services will exhibit its portfolio of pioneering disruptive silicon photonic technologies at the 21^st China International Optoelectronic Expo 2019 (CIOE 2019), the largest optoelectronic expo in the world.

This annual event is recognised as a premier gathering to network and discover future trends for global optoelectronic professionals and forms a communication platform promoting continued development of worldwide optoelectronic technologies.

To be held in Shenzhen, CompoundTek’s China, CompoundTek’s solutions designed for niche applications in telecommunication, data center, bio-medical diagnostics, smart sensor, artificial intelligence, quantum optical computing, and automotive industries will be showcased.

The company offers the marketplace the latest technologies in silicon photonics fabrication with a fast turnaround time that addresses both the issues of capacity and process technology gaps in the industry.

Its business ecosystem includes strategic partnerships with leading research institutes and silicon photonic design teams.

Join us at 1A64-9, Hall1, Optical Communications Expo, Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center and chat with our experts about your product fabrication needs and exciting partnership opportunities. We look forward to sharing our unconventional solutions and innovations with you and your team.

To book an appointment or for more information on CompoundTek’s exhibit, please contact:

Victor Tan

Sales Director

+65 6515 0170

enquiries@compoundtek.com

Booth No: #3, Vista Ballroom, Hilton Singapore

Date: 28-30 August 2019

CompoundTek, a global market leader in silicon photonics foundry services confirms its Bronze sponsorship at the 2019 IEEE 16^th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP 2019), a forerunner of current and future insights in Group IV element-based photonic materials and devices.

The event consists of scheduled single-track conference with oral and poster sessions of both contributed and invited papers as well as plenary session discussing important Group IV element photonics topics.

CompoundTek, based out of Singapore, will share with visitors its expanding range of solutions and services designed for the growing silicon photonics market.

Since its entry into the market in 2017, the company has steadily grown its global footprint in recognition of its cutting-edge capabilities in silicon photonics fabrication. Offering customers fast turn-around time that addresses both the issues of capacity and process technology gaps in the industry, CompoundTek continues to strengthen its technology portfolio with established strategic partnerships that include leading research institutes and silicon photonic design teams.

At the upcoming GFP 2019, CompoundTek aims to showcase its latest solutions in silicon photonics fabrication for telecommunication, data center, bio-medical diagnostics, smart sensor, artificial intelligence, quantum optical computing, and automotive applications.

Join us at Booth #3, Vista Ballroom, Hilton Singapore and chat with our experts about your product fabrication needs and exciting partnership opportunities. We look forward to sharing our unconventional solutions and innovations with you and your team.

To book an appointment or for more information on CompoundTek’s exhibit, please contact:

Victor Tan

Sales Director

+65 6515 0170

enquiries@compoundtek.com

Singapore, 5 May 2019 – CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging Silicon Photonics (SiPh) solutions joins LUX Photonics Consortium, an initiative established by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) to serve as a catalyst and an industry networking platform “translating cutting-edge research into ground-breaking light-enabled technologies”. Through this collaboration, CompoundTek aims to leverage its pioneering commercialisation capabilities which include 8” SiPh fabrication services on an open platform, proprietary enhanced Process Design Kit (PDK) and process control monitoring structures (PCM) to drive Singapore’s global footprint in niche semiconductor solutions. Combined, these capabilities offer customers mass production volume and fast cycle-time to advance the adoption SiPh technologies in the marketplace.

Supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, the consortium boosts of over 45 industry members including Institutes of Higher Learning focusing on photonics research for diverse applications.

Bringing a unique business proposition into the consortium, CompoundTek solutions include world-class commercial foundry capabilities and cutting-edge Silicon Photonics research for real-world solutions in Datacom/Telecom, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Sensors, Bio Medical/Life Science and Car LiDar. Industry analysts believe that the SiPh will see a Target Addressable Market (TAM) over USD$200 billion dollars by 2025. A key driver to SiPh’s growth is its capabilities in smaller form factor with higher level of integration and lower cost than conventional Indium Phosphide (InP) based photonics or other competing technologies.

Since its launch in 2017, Singapore-based CompoundTek has over 15 global commercial customers and 19 research institutes and universities in various applications such as telecommunications, automotive radar, data communications, bio-sensing, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and smart sensors.

Singapore, 28 Mar 2019 – CompoundTek, a global foundry services leader in emerging silicon photonic (SiPh) solutions, closed its exhibit held earlier this month in San Diego, California on a high note following a successful showcase that saw engagements with over fifty organisations, at its booth.

Highlights from the event included CompoundTek’s exhibit on the recently inked partnerships with University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC), and Lumerical. Led by Prof. Graham Reed, a pioneer in silicon photonics, the CompoundTek-ORC partnership will focus on providing customers’ silicon photonics product design while the photonics design automation (PDA) is CompoundTek’s newest offering backed by Lumerical’s capabilities in this area.

CompoundTek’s COO K.S.Ang (right) together with Uni of Southampton’s Prof. Graham Reed who leads Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) at OFC2019

Live demos at CompoundTek’s booth with Lumerical and other PDA vendors provided insights to the unique product development kit (PDK) offering for commercial customers from different market sectors. These value-added design services complement CompoundTek’s current solutions portfolio that spans telecommunications, data communications, artificial intelligence, biomedical sensors, automotive LiDar, smart sensors – key point of interests from many commercial visitors to its booth.

CompoundTek engaging customers at OFC2019

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