VPIphotonics

Keysight Technologies, Inc.于 2026 年 6 月 9 日宣布完成对 VPIphotonics 的收购。

VPIphotonics 于 1998 年首次提出“光子设计自动化 (PDA)”这一术语，用于描述设计复杂光子网络和产品所采用的设计方法、软件工具和服务。PDA 通过简化从研发到技术销售和市场营销的流程，帮助光器件和系统供应商管理知识产权并降低运营成本。

如今，VPIphotonics 提供灵活的软件环境，以支持光器件和系统设计需求，并优化设备选择的成本，最终生成性能报告和物料清单。

我们的客户可以根据其核心业务选择此矩阵的子集。他们之所以能够做出这样的选择，是因为他们确信，我们的系统能够与供应商和客户使用的工具、第三方软件（例如电子设计和无源器件设计软件）、实验室设备以及现有数据库无缝对接。

VPIphotonics 通过支持精简的设计流程，显著提升效率：

– 通过供应链实现协作设计

– 通过扩展可用资源激发创新

– 减少物理实验的需求

– 收集并传播设计流程知识

– 建立并支持稳健的决策流程

VPIphotonics first coined the term Photonic Design Automation (PDA) in 1998 to describe the design methodologies, software tools and services used to engineer complex photonic networks and products. PDA helps optical component and system vendors to manage intellectual property and reduce operating expenses by streamlining processes, from R&D to technical sales and marketing.

Today, VPIphotonics offers a flexible software environment to support requirements in optical component and systems design as well as cost optimization of equipment choices leading to performance reports and bill of materials.

Our customers choose sub-sets of this matrix according to their core business. This choice is in the secure knowledge that interfaces are available to the tools used by their suppliers and customers, third-party software (such as electronic design and passive component design), laboratory equipment, and existing databases.

VPIphotonics brings efficiency gains as it supports a streamlined design process:
– Enable collaborative designs via supply chains
– Stimulate innovation by expanding available resources
– Reduce the need of physical experimentation
– Capture and distribute knowledge of design processes
– Establish and support robust decision-making processes