Description
Make Better Optical Designs Faster
CODE V is the most capable, powerful optical design software on the planet.
Intuitive, intelligent tools let you take on any optical design task, from the simple to the complex, and design better solutions faster than ever.
Key Features
- Design optimization (including Global Synthesis) that speeds time to market
- Fast, accurate tolerancing for superior fabrication support
- Accurate, groundbreaking beam propagation analysis
- CODE V’s Glass Expert provides AI-optimized glass selection to maximize design performance and control manufacturing costs
- Extensive built-in libraries of optical system models (patents, etc.), components, and optical glasses
- Comprehensive graphics capabilities (pictures, data plots, shaded displays), including 3D visualizations and diffraction-based image simulations
- Non-sequential surface modeling for unusual systems
- Fast 2D image simulation to visualize optical system performance
- High-fidelity transfer of models to LightTools for illumination, ghost image, and stray light analysis
New SagFit Utility
If you have measured sag data or CAD surfaces, you can use the new SagFit Utility to fit the surface to a native CODE V surface. Using native CODE V surfaces gives you additional flexibility and control to optimize your design. Here’s how it works in three easy steps:
- Open a sag data file or sample an existing surface in your current lens for the fitting process.
- Pick the surface type you would like to fit and define which terms you want to include. The process is interactive and reports statistics to help you evaluate the adequacy of the fit.
- Once you are happy with the fit, move to Export Surface where you can choose to apply your fitted surface to an existing surface, or insert the fitted surface as a new surface in your model.
CODE V SagFit Utility
New Example Model Library for Learning CODE V
The CODE V Example Model Library is a new resource to help you quickly learn how to use specific features in CODE V.
The library includes examples that cover a range of key CODE V features, including Global Synthesis for global optimization, Beam Synthesis Propagation to analyze diffraction-related characteristics, and SpecBuilder for setting up lens system specifications.
Each example model has documentation that describes the model, the features you will learn, and how to step through the example. Many examples include one or more sequence files that can execute the steps for you. You can open a sequence file to examine its Macro-PLUS code and run it to see the results.
To learn more, visit the Synopsys Learning Center and watch this two-minute video, CODE V Example Model Library.
We plan to grow this library with each release of CODE V — look for more examples to come soon!
CODE V Example Model Library interface
Macro-PLUS Improvement: Optimization Constraint Sorting
The prior release of CODE V introduced the option to store constraint information from an optimization in the CODE V Worksheet Buffer.
The CODE V 2023.03 release adds the List Constraint Data macro that filters and sorts this constraint information. This can make it easier to understand the impact of active and weighted design constraints on system optimization.
To learn more, visit the Synopsys Learning Center and watch this six-minute video, Sorting Optimization Constraints in CODE V.
Macro-PLUS Improvement: Generate/Plot Data Only Over Defined Aperture Region
Several fabrication support macros in CODE V have been enhanced to let you generate and plot data only over the defined aperture region. The updated macros include:
- seq for plotting curvature attributes of a surface
- seq for a 2D sag map of a surface
- seq to measure the sag departure of a surface from a reference surface
This enhancement also honors the lens Apertures Used (CA) setting.
CODE V macro plot data
Faster Macro Execution
Under-the-hood updates in this release facilitate faster execution of environmental analysis macros as well macros working on models with large numbers of pickups.
In addition, a new keyword, ABS, is available for the index of refraction database item, IND. When the ABS keyword is included, it returns the absolute value of the index, rather than the signed index.
New Help System
The help system in CODE V has been revamped for the 2023.03 release. The help system now uses the default installed browser to display help topics and provide easy access to all information in the CODE V reference manuals.
The help is still installed with CODE V, so no internet connection is necessary. As in previous releases, you can access the help in CODE V by going to the Help menu, pressing the F1 key on your keyboard, or clicking a Help button in the CODE V interface.
CODE V help system
Enhanced Interoperability with LightTools
This release includes enhancements to interoperability with LightTools to perform stray light analysis from your CODE V lens. You can export encrypted thin film coatings and more robust apertures in the optical system file.
Additionally, you can export lenses with hole apertures, and they will display in LightTools as holes on the lens surface that can be manipulated in the 3D Design view or the System Navigator.
Hole aperture modeled in LightTools
New Licensing Option: Synopsys Common Licensing
CODE V 2023.03 supports two licensing options: Legacy Licensing and Synopsys Common Licensing (SCL).
Most customers will continue using Legacy Licensing, which is the same type of licensing used in previous releases. If you will use the same Host ID as previous releases, choose Legacy Licensing.
Your Synopsys Optical Design Solutions representative will contact your company representative if you need to use SCL licensing.