After the fab
Everything you need to test the chip you just designed
A die comes back as a bare sliver of silicon. It does not plug into anything. This catalog is the rig that powers it, feeds it signals and measures what comes out, so you can compare the real chip with what the simulator predicted. Links go to the vendors. Nothing is sold here.
- Vendor pages checked September 2026
- Thorlabs part numbers show list prices; everything else is a typical range; services are quoted per project
- Curated by the people who wrote the simulators
Start from a kit
Curated bundles for the usual situations. Expand one to see what is inside, add it, then add or remove parts.
Before you tape out
Put test structures on the chip: straight waveguides of several lengths, a lone ring and a coupler pair for photonics; a ring oscillator and a scan chain for digital. Without them you cannot tell a design mistake from a fab variation, whatever bench you buy.