ANSYS, TSMC & Microsoft Team Up to Advance Silicon PIC Simulation

ANSYS Inc (ANSS) , TSMC and Microsoft (MSFT) have successfully tested a solution that enhances the simulation and analysis process of silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). The joined forces have yielded a 10X speed-up in Ansys’ Lumerical FDTD photonic simulations using Microsoft Azure’s NC A100v4-series virtual machines powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing technology operating on Azure AI infrastructure. Silicon PICs (category of optical communications) are a critical component of hyperscale data ...