Lumerical

The Lumerical company specializes in the field of modeling of silicon photonics.

2020: Entry into the structure of Ansys

On June 29, 2020 the KADFEM of Si — Ah-Es company reported that the Ansys company purchased developer company of solutions for modeling of silicon photonics of Lumerical. It will allow to add software products for modeling of photonics to the multifizichny Ansys portfolio and to provide to clients a set of solutions for the questions connected with design of products of the next generation.

As of June, 2020 the Lumerical company develops the software for modeling at the component level using multidisciplinary workflows for modeling of optical, electric and thermal effects at the physical layer. The company provides the solution for modeling at the system level, with a set of analytical opportunities for design and optimization of characteristics of electrooptical devices. The products Lumerical are used by the companies developing photon devices.

Ansys aims to expand a scope and to provide technologies of modeling for all segments of the industry, and Lumerical technologies open the photonics industry for Ansys. The silicon photonics is an extending market, and Lumerical, similarly traditional environment of design automation of electronics, provides a full range of tools for design and the analysis of components of photon integrated circuits and systems. Lumerical supplements Ansys SPEOS, actually acting as a light source for forecasting of illumination and optical characteristics of such systems as internal lighting of the car.

"The photonics represents rather extensive set of the different markets anyway using photon technologies, is and information technologies, biophotonics, defense and security, power and lighting. It is also possible to note existence of specialization of the countries on photonics specific market segments. So, South Korea, Japan and the People's Republic of China specialize in the markets of mass products: production of displays, lighting and photovoltaics. Segments of communications, IT and machine vision develop in the USA and in the European countries. Photonics potential as for the traditional markets (ICT, defense/security), and forming (biophotonics) attracted interest in this direction and in Russia. For June, 2020 in Russia more than 1000 organizations in the field work, at the same time many Russian companies show high export activity that demonstrates existence in our country of competitive developments. On the other hand, the Russian market of photonics represents extremely limited segment of the world market, with specialization in the field of security and defense. Use of modern computer technologies such as, Ansys, Lumerical DEVICE Suite and SYSTEM Suite at the earliest design stage of photon devices will allow the Russian companies to enhance competitiveness of the products developed and put on the market, and in full to realize the export potential", Denis Hitrykh, the Marketing director "KADFEM of Si - Ah-Es" noted

With the advent of applications with a 5G and also autonomous vehicles, the organizations will be forced to process bigger amount of data for shorter terms, than ever. Traditional transmission media of data will be replaced with more productive optical networks. The products Lumerical for modeling of nanophoton devices photonics which includes the interconnected optical, electric and thermal effects allow developers to solve complex problems. The solutions Lumerical can improve performance of architecture of data centers, having eliminated bottlenecks in network, having potentially reduced total cost of ownership. In addition acquisition of Lumerical will allow clients of Ansys to predict behavior of light in complex photon structures and systems.

"Ansys has a complete solution for modeling of semiconductors and electronics. With Lumerical acquisition we expand possibilities of Ansys for solving of tasks of silicon photonics further to allow the clients to develop products of the next generation, such as autonomous transport and other smart interconnected devices", 'Shane Emswiler, the senior vice president of Ansys, physical business divisions noted'

"Lumerical corresponds to Ansys. Potential of silicon photonics in such spheres as a 5G, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and pilotless vehicles can be implemented only thanks to the solution of a large number of the questions connected with multifizichny problems of the equipment and systems. Together, Lumeric and Ansys have opportunities for providing necessary solutions", 'James Pond, the general and technical director of Lumerical noted'

It is expected that the transaction will not have significant effect on the summary financial statement of Ansys in 2020.