PICs layout creation

Once the custom building blocks are available in the KLayout libraries together with Alcyon’s components, the user can combine them to create more complex layouts. However, either manually or from conventional scripting, building intricate PICs can be an arduous task.

For this reason, Alcyon has developed the Layout-Creator Module. This Python tool allows the user to easily build circuits just by calling blocks from the different libraries and connecting them by following a netlist.

The connection in between blocks is based on the mathematical concept of graphs and nodes.

A full description of the Layout Creator tool and complementary modules for the layout design can be found in the Alcyon Utilities Documentation.