Design Rules & PDK

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SiN MPW #9

CORNERSTONE users are invited to submit designs to SiN MPW #9. The sign-up deadline is Friday 15th November 2024. The mask submission deadline is Wednesday 11th December 2024.

For more information, full design rules and quick reference design rules, please download the SiNi MPW #9 Design Rules documents and the .GDSII template files. To help you comply with the design rules, we offer a downloadable design rule check (DRC) checklist.

CORNERSTONE Silicon Nitride MPW #9 – Design Rules

CORNERSTONE Silicon Nitride MPW #9 – GDS Template

CORNERSTONE Silicon Nitride MPW #9- Standard Components

CORNERSTONE SiN Refractive Index Data

Klayout DRC script SiN

 

Design Area [mm2] 15.45 x 11.47 Delivery Time
Access Cost with Heaters (Priority)* £17,900 6 weeks
Access Cost without Heaters (Priority)* £9,700 4 weeks
Access Cost with Heaters (Standard)* £14,250 12 weeks
Access Cost without Heaters (Standard)* £7,750 12 weeks
Access Cost for Enterprises and Academia based in UK† 50% off 12 weeks

*Quoted prices are exclusive of VAT, import duties/customs fees, withholding taxes etc. 

†Are you a UK company? UK companies and universities may be eligible for a 50% discount on the cost of this MPW run with support from the CORNERSTONE Photonics Innovation Centre (C-PIC) (EP/Z531066/1), funded by UK Research and Innovation. Support will be provided under the Subsidy Control Act (2022) via Minimal Financial Assistance. To be eligible you will need to demonstrate the potential impact of receiving assistance against one or more of the following categories: impact on jobs and skills, access to new technology, accelerating product development. Following submission of your sign-up form, you will receive correspondence with more details of how this support will be provided. The support is only available to UK companies using CORNERSTONE for prototyping and product development.
Priority batches are designed to accelerate delivery times by utilizing expedited services for obtaining reticles, prioritizing access to cleanroom tools, working out-of-hours, and simplifying intermittent quality checks during the fabrication process, instead relying on the inherent repeatability of the lithography and etching processes. Additionally, the submitted layouts will not undergo further inspection against design rules after the submission deadline. Consequently, users opting for the priority option are required to submit designs that pass the Design Rule Check (DRC) on or before the submission deadline. The CORNERSTONE team would be grateful for the opportunity to work with you prior to the submission deadline to ensure your designs pass DRC. For information about setting up CORNERSTONE as a supplier to your institution, please contact cornerstone@soton.ac.uk.

Get Discount

We encourage users to include the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded CORNERSTONE (EP/L021129/1) or CORNERSTONE 2 (EP/T019697/1) in the “Funding” section of relevant journal publications. This is crucial for us to demonstrate the impact of the funding.

If you share the digital object identifier (DOI) of your published journal paper that references one of the CORNERSTONE projects, you will receive a 5% discount on the access charges listed in Table 1 for your first paper. For two or more journal papers, you will receive a 10% discount.

Process Design Kit (PDK)

The CORNERSTONE Process Design Kit (PDK) is accessible through Luceda’s IPKISS software, which requires the appropriate license for usage. To acquire the software and obtain a license key, please reach out to Luceda via their website. When contacting them, make sure to specify that you require a license for CORNERSTONE PDK usage.

It’s important to note that if you already possess a valid IPKISS license, the CORNERSTONE PDK is available to you free of charge.

Open source standard components

The CORNERSTONE platform has a number of open source standard components available for use for each of its platforms.

The documents below detail the standard device dimensions for each platform, as well as measured performance data:

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