masque/examples/tutorial/README.md

masque Tutorial

Contents

• basic_shapes:
  • Draw basic geometry
  • Export to GDS
• devices
  • Reference other patterns
  • Add ports to a pattern
  • Snap ports together to build a circuit
  • Check for dangling references
• library
  • Create a LazyLibrary, which loads / generates patterns only when they are first used
  • Explore alternate ways of specifying a pattern for .plug() and .place()
  • Design a pattern which is meant to plug into an existing pattern (via .interface())
• pather
  • Use Pather to route individual wires and wire bundles
  • Use BasicTool to generate paths
  • Use BasicTool to automatically transition between path types
• renderpather
  • Use RenderPather and PathTool to build a layout similar to the one in pather, but using Path shapes instead of Polygons.

Additionaly, pcgen is a utility module for generating photonic crystal lattices.

Running

Run from inside the examples directory:

cd examples/tutorial
python3 basic_shapes.py
klayout -e basic_shapes.gds