Jaeha Kim presents SystemVerilog/XMODEL models of three-channel silicon-photonic WDM links
At ASP-DAC 2025, Jaeha Kim, affiliated with Seoul National University and Scientific Analog, presents an invited paper on SystemVerilog/XMODEL simulation of silicon-photonic systems. The conference abstract describes mapping photonic elements to equivalent multi-port transmission lines and event-driven simulation of 5-Gb/s, three-channel WDM links using micro-ring, Mach-Zehnder and electro-absorption modulators. It reports 4.2, 8.3 and 8.3 simulated symbols per second for those examples. These are model-simulation results, not measured link throughput or demonstrated silicon correlation. January 21 is the scheduled presentation date; the publisher proceedings date is later.
Evidence
ASP-DAC 2025 official technical program and abstract: 1F-3 ↗
Session 1F-3 on January 21, 10:55–11:20, supplies the exact title, dual affiliation, model method, link conditions and simulation speeds.
Invited paper: Modeling and Simulation of Silicon Photonics Systems in SystemVerilog/XMODEL — SNU publication record ↗
University metadata identifies pages 141–146 and DOI 10.1145/3658617.3703934; its March 4 publication date is distinguished from the January conference presentation.
Introduction to Silicon Photonics Systems and Their Modeling with XMODEL — earlier tutorial record ↗
The November 9, 2020 tutorial already introduces combined photonic/electronic WDM modeling with the same modulator families. It supplies earlier methodological context, not evidence that the later quantitative results existed in 2020; it is not indexed as a second research milestone.