OptiSPICE

OptiSPICE is the only product of its kind, empowering engineers with a tool to meet the growing need for the design of complex optoelectronic devices.

Traditional optoelectronic design involves design of the optical part by optical engineers and the electrical part by electrical engineers. The optical and electrical designs are then typically put together by a team of experts trained in aspects concerning both domains. The process is expensive and time consuming.

OptiSPICE can significantly reduce product development costs through its comprehensive design environment to co-simulate optical and electrical circuits in one simulation engine. The product produces self-consistent solutions of optoelectronic circuits that contain feedback spanning both optical and electrical parts.

Supporting a wide variety of electrical circuit elements such as diodes, transistors, BJTs and MOSFETS along with optical components such as laser diodes, optical fibers and photodiodes; OptiSPICE will provide transient time domain, small-signal frequency, and noise analysis.

“OptiSPICE is an industry first,” said Jan Jakubczyk, President and CEO of Optiwave Systems. “There is a growing need for electronic engineers to work with optical components in today’s marketplace and this is the only tool available which meets product development requirements.”

Optiwave will release OptiSPICE in the first half of 2008.