I am struggling to properly interface between gdsfactory, klayout and interconnect.Currently, I am able to generate a layout in klayout based on gdsfactory scripts. I can also confirm that I can launch and run a circuit simulation in Interconnect from KLayout when following this tutorial:
https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/4411329984147-KLayout-INTERCONNECT-interoperability-Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing-WDM-
In my circuit, I’d like to use gdsfactory and the siepic/ubcpdk components. I expected that I should be able to define a circuit in gdsfactory, look over the layout in klayout, and then export it to Interconnect to run circuit simulations. However, that doesn’t seem to work. When I try that, Interconnect throws some errors such as “Error loading netlist: the element ‘straight_c2dabf47’ is not available in the library.” “Straight” is the name of the straight waveguide component, as described here:
https://gdsfactory.github.io/ubc/components_plot.html#straight
I think the reason that this error doesn’t come up when following the tutorial is because it uses the Lumfoundry PDK. Each component in this PDK (waveguides, couplers etc) has a PCell and an associated Lumerical compact model.
Alternatively, we’ve figured that hand-drawn paths in Klayout can be converted to working waveguide objects in Interconnect using the “SiEPIC > Waveguides > Path to Waveguides” menu item.
But I haven’t been able to use any ordinary routing/waveguide components in Interconnect. There just doesn’t seem to be a compact model for those components. How do we get these to work to complete the workflow?
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