Acceleware and Synopsys announced new software that enables faster electromagnetic simulation of optoelectronic devices.

The solution, which links Synopsys' TCAD Sentaurus Device simulation software to Acceleware's ClusterInABox Quad Q30 workstation, enables speed-up of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modeling algorithm used in Sentaurus Device software. This performance increase reportedly allows engineers to incorporate FDTD in designing and optimizing optoelectronic devices while shortening the product development cycle.

"Customers can now take advantage of this combined software and hardware solution to explore more design options and to optimize performance, manufacturability and yield for these complex optoelectronics device structures." said Terry Ma, director, TCAD Business Unit at Synopsys.

"Process and device engineers are continuously challenged with improving product performance in a shorter development cycle," said Ryan Schneider, Acceleware's CTO. "Our deskside supercomputing solutions provide the fastest FDTD processing on the market, opening up new possibilities in innovation and product delivery for engineers working with Synopsys' sophisticated TCAD solution.”