gplugins 1.1.4

gdsfactory plugins:

devsim TCAD device simulator.
meow Eigen Mode Expansion (EME).
femwell Finite Element Method Solver (heaters, modes, TCAD, RF waveguides).
gmsh mesh structures.
tidy3d Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations on the cloud using GPU.
lumerical For Ansys FDTD and Circuit interconnect.
klayout for fill, dataprep and testing.
ray for distributed computing and optimization.
sax S-parameter circuit solver.
schematic: for bokeh schematic editor and path_length_analysis.
meep for FDTD.
mpb for MPB mode solver.
elmer for electrostatic (capacitive) simulations.
palace for full-wave driven (S parameter) and electrostatic (capacitive) simulations.
vlsir for parsing GDS-extracted circuit netlists into Cadence Spectre, NgSpice and Xyce Schematic File formats.

Installation

You can install most plugins with:

pip install "gdsfactory[full]" --upgrade

pip install "gplugins[devsim,femwell,gmsh,schematic,meow,meshwell,ray,sax,tidy3d]" --upgrade

Or install only the plugins you need. For example:

pip install "gplugins[schematic,femwell,meow,sax,tidy3d]" --upgrade

The following plugins require special installation as they can't be installed with pip:

For Meep and MPB you need to use conda or mamba on MacOS, Linux or Windows WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) with conda install pymeep=*=mpi_mpich_* -c conda-forge -y
For Elmer, refer to Elmer FEM – Installation for installation or compilation instructions each platform. Gplugins assumes ElmerSolver, ElmerSolver_mpi, and ElmerGrid are available in your PATH environment variable.
For Palace, refer to Palace – Installation for compilation instructions using Spack or Singularity. Gplugins assumes palace is available in your PATH environment variable.