Quick Start: Create a Circuit

This section is a guide to create circuits and is designed for users to learn the design of a circuit from the basic components to the complete circuit.

Steps to create a circuit.

• Step 1: Build basic building blocks
  • Bend
  • Straight
  • Taper
• Step 2: Build basic circuits with basic building blocks
  • DirectionalCoupler
  • MMI
• Step 3: Build complex circuits using basic building blocks
  • target_length
  • waypoints
  • waylines
• Step 4: Drawing of common shapes and layout design by Boolean operations
  • Commonly_used_shape
    • Rectangle
    • Circle
    • Polygon
    • Ring
    • Regular_Polygon
  • Boolean_operation
    • OR
    • AND
    • NOT
    • XOR
    • Examples
• Step 5: Example(MMI Tree)