OpenLight and Tower Semiconductor Expand PH18DA Photonics Ecosystem to Accelerate Photonic IC Development
OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous III‑V‑on‑silicon photonic integration and custom Photonic Application‑Specific Integrated Circuits (PASICs), and Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of OpenLight’s photonic Process Design Kit (PDK) for Tower Semiconductor’s PH18DA indium phosphide (InP)-on-silicon photonics platform in Cadence’s electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Developed through close technical collaboration between the companies, the PDK now enables customers to design advanced photonic integrated circuits (PICs) within a widely adopted IC design environment and accelerate development toward production.
Advantest Partners with OpenLight to Develop Silicon Photonics Test Solutions for High-Volume Manufacturing
Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) and OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous silicon photonics integration and custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design, today announced their plans to partner and develop solutions for scalable, high-volume silicon photonics testing.
OpenLight Secures $50 Million in Series A-1 Funding to Accelerate Global Deployment of Next-Generation Photonics
OpenLight, the world leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) design leveraging its patented heterogeneous silicon photonics process, today announced it has raised an additional $50 million in a Series A-1 round, bringing the company’s total funding to $84 million. The financing reflects growing commercial momentum and accelerating customer adoption across AI infrastructure, automotive and industrial sensing, medical and quantum computing applications.
