User Guide

• GUI Features
  • Useful hotkeys
  • Placing Elements
  • Modifying Element parameters
  • Modifying waveguides
  • Converting elements placed in GUI into code
• Point-and-click workflow tutorial
• Python workflow tutorial
  • File system hierarchy
  • Structure of PCell code
    • Element class
    • PCell Libraries
    • Parameters
    • Build
  • Example of defining an Element
  • Example of defining a Chip and inserting elements into it
  • Refpoints
  • Faces
• Macro development
  • Basic workflow
  • Debugger
  • Reloading libraries
  • Examples
• Exports
  • Mask export
    • Tutorial
      • Basic mask script and export
      • Ground grid
      • Adding and modifying chips
      • Multi-face masks
  • Export for external simulation tools
    • Creating simulation object
      • Geometry from Klayout GUI
      • Geometry from KQCircuits library
    • Ansys export
      • Ansys scripts
        • Main scripts:
        • Optional scripts:
    • Sonnet export
    • Gmsh/Elmer export
• Creating cross section images
• Terminology