MaskEngineer

MaskEngineer provides the professional designer with a parametric design environment for mask layout. Parametric layout has as basic concept that layout and function of a MEMS or MST component are related; changing the layout will change the functional parameters of a component.

Describing these relations in a mathematical way allows to reduce design time considerably by being able to re-use design much easier. During prototype stages variations in the design can be made trivially.
Parametric layout has demonstrated its use in the micro-optics, where the concept was introduced around 1994, but is much more broadly applicable. The essential idea is to split up the layout of a component from its function and to describe the layout as a function of component properties. A simple example is an office, you can describe it as "it is 4.2m * 4m, with a door in the middle" or you can say "it's big enough for 2", which could lead to a formula "4.2m * (amount of employees * 2m)". MaskEngineer provides an extensive programming language, focussing on the layout of micro components.

This module contains:
• extensive mathematical functions and element libraries and advanced expression capability to describe their relations
• hiearchy, simplifying re-use of earlier designs
• iterations / conditional parts
• connectivity and coordinate transform support
• C-like text based input format, with import and export to formats like GDSII and CIF.
• Boolean operations.
• Element Library for:
  • Micro-optics
  • Micro-fluidics
  • Micro-mechanics / mems

If you are interested in the actual masks, PhoeniX can offer Order your masks at PhoeniX too.
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