Cloud native EDA tools & pre-optimized hardware platforms
CODE V Optical Design Software
Design Brilliance™
CODE V empowers engineers to tackle any optical design task with intuitive, intelligent tools, delivering better solutions, faster.
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Powerful, efficient diffraction analysis with CODE V Beam Synthesis Propagation.
CODE V is designed to let you build products quickly and accurately. No other ray tracing software can get you to market faster, with fewer mistakes.
CODE V's exclusive Global Synthesis AI is designed to give you the best design solutions, as fast as possible.
CODE V's built-in tolerancing is fast and accurate, making it easy to avoid costly manufacturing mistakes down the road.
Powerful, efficient diffraction analysis with CODE V Beam Synthesis Propagation.
CODE V is designed to let you build products quickly and accurately. No other ray tracing software can get you to market faster, with fewer mistakes.
CODE V's exclusive Global Synthesis AI is designed to give you the best design solutions, as fast as possible.
CODE V's built-in tolerancing is fast and accurate, making it easy to avoid costly manufacturing mistakes down the road.
Powerful, efficient diffraction analysis with CODE V Beam Synthesis Propagation.
“The CODE V Image Simulation feature provides a convenient method for evaluating optical systems that are used in unconventional imaging environments, such as automotive surround, 3D (stereo) imaging or hyper-hemispheric imaging. We have used these tools to develop hyper-hemispheric designs and have found them to be effective in evaluating synthetic target imagery."
DR. JOHN TAMKIN
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Imaging Insights LLC
YOSI ARAZI, CEO & Co-Founder, Optical Designer
JOYA Team
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REKHA DOSHI, Principal Optical Engineer
ALEXANDER KAPUSTIN, Sr. Optical Engineer
Gray Optics
NED NESTOROVIC
President + Chief Optical Engineer, Seattle Photonics Associates
“CODE V is an incredibly helpful tool for designing professional, high-end optics. Furthermore, the solutions with CODE V’s Global Synthesis optimization lead to high-performance systems. CODE V is one of the enabling technologies that allows NWS instruments to offer imaging tools for experts.”
DR. CHRISTOPH HORNEBER
Co-Founder and Director of Optical Design, NWS Instruments AG
"It has allowed me to visualize the system throughout the design process before exporting the final optical model to CAD software. I have also used the feature to import CAD models for catalog optical mounting components, making it possible to efficiently refine a compact optical layout while avoiding interferences between mounts.”
DR. ANTHONY VELLA
Optical Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“As an optical design and engineering firm that specializes in custom precision systems, we are continuously challenged with new and demanding projects. The View Apertures (VAP) feature has been helpful in analyzing non-rotationally symmetric systems with complex apertures in both imaging and beam shaping. VAP has also been very helpful for communications between our optics and mechanics teams, as well as with our customers and suppliers.”
ANDRÉS CIFUENTES
Chief Executive Officer, ASE Optics Europe
"With its global optimization features, its ability to control constraints exactly, and an interface that allows us to set up user-defined merit functions quickly and easily, CODE V gives us ultimate design freedom."
RUSS HUDYMA
Managing Partner, Hyperion Development LLC
"We often require extraordinary correction with many surfaces, and several very high-order aspheres, resulting in too many variables for typical lens design optimization. CODE V’s optimization tools, such as Global Synthesis and Glass Expert, make it possible to successfully design such systems."
DAN SMITH, Ph.D.
Director of Optical Sciences and Technology
“The CODE V Image Simulation feature provides a convenient method for evaluating optical systems that are used in unconventional imaging environments, such as automotive surround, 3D (stereo) imaging or hyper-hemispheric imaging. We have used these tools to develop hyper-hemispheric designs and have found them to be effective in evaluating synthetic target imagery."
DR. JOHN TAMKIN
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Imaging Insights LLC
YOSI ARAZI, CEO & Co-Founder, Optical Designer
JOYA Team
Read success story
REKHA DOSHI, Principal Optical Engineer
ALEXANDER KAPUSTIN, Sr. Optical Engineer
Gray Optics
NED NESTOROVIC
President + Chief Optical Engineer, Seattle Photonics Associates
“CODE V is an incredibly helpful tool for designing professional, high-end optics. Furthermore, the solutions with CODE V’s Global Synthesis optimization lead to high-performance systems. CODE V is one of the enabling technologies that allows NWS instruments to offer imaging tools for experts.”
DR. CHRISTOPH HORNEBER
Co-Founder and Director of Optical Design, NWS Instruments AG
"It has allowed me to visualize the system throughout the design process before exporting the final optical model to CAD software. I have also used the feature to import CAD models for catalog optical mounting components, making it possible to efficiently refine a compact optical layout while avoiding interferences between mounts.”
DR. ANTHONY VELLA
Optical Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“As an optical design and engineering firm that specializes in custom precision systems, we are continuously challenged with new and demanding projects. The View Apertures (VAP) feature has been helpful in analyzing non-rotationally symmetric systems with complex apertures in both imaging and beam shaping. VAP has also been very helpful for communications between our optics and mechanics teams, as well as with our customers and suppliers.”
ANDRÉS CIFUENTES
Chief Executive Officer, ASE Optics Europe
"With its global optimization features, its ability to control constraints exactly, and an interface that allows us to set up user-defined merit functions quickly and easily, CODE V gives us ultimate design freedom."
RUSS HUDYMA
Managing Partner, Hyperion Development LLC
"We often require extraordinary correction with many surfaces, and several very high-order aspheres, resulting in too many variables for typical lens design optimization. CODE V’s optimization tools, such as Global Synthesis and Glass Expert, make it possible to successfully design such systems."
DAN SMITH, Ph.D.
Director of Optical Sciences and Technology
“The CODE V Image Simulation feature provides a convenient method for evaluating optical systems that are used in unconventional imaging environments, such as automotive surround, 3D (stereo) imaging or hyper-hemispheric imaging. We have used these tools to develop hyper-hemispheric designs and have found them to be effective in evaluating synthetic target imagery."
DR. JOHN TAMKIN
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Imaging Insights LLC
Our customer success team is anchored by experienced optical engineers who are CODE V experts. If you ever need help, our team is available, along with videos, documentation, tutorials, example models, and more.
360-degree panorama taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU
When NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landed on February 18, it was an exciting day for space exploration and for our optical technology, which is being used in the zoom lens on the rover. Read our blog article to learn about Perseverance’s unique capabilities and how the Synopsys optical engineering team contributed to its design.
Product demos, keynotes, technical presentations, expert panels, and more
Learn how an optical engineer used CODE V’s Global Synthesis optimization, feasibility analysis, tolerancing, and yield analyses.
Read blog entryCODE V and LucidShape CAA V5 Based are used to design, simulate, and visualize HUDs, ensuring optimal performance and driver satisfaction.
Read blog entryThis article explores a key optical system in XR devices and highlights Synopsys Optical Solutions products for designing display systems for these innovative applications.
Read blog entryImSym provides an end-to-end, physically accurate, virtual prototype of your imaging system, with accuracy powered by CODE V and LightTools.
Read blog entryLearn unique approaches in CODE V and the RSoft Photonic Device Tools for both conventional and emerging optical systems to help designers create systems that perform as specified.
Read blog entryLearn how to solve metalens design challenges by combining a ray-based automatic design tool in CODE V with a wave-based inverse design tool, MetaOptic Designer, to design an ultra-wide angle metalens imaging system.
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See examples of freeform optics applications using CODE V and other Synopsys tools.
Optical engineers use CODE V to design a range of applications and leading products.
Product demos, keynotes, technical presentations, expert panels, and more
Learn how an optical engineer used CODE V’s Global Synthesis optimization, feasibility analysis, tolerancing, and yield analyses.
Read blog entryCODE V and LucidShape CAA V5 Based are used to design, simulate, and visualize HUDs, ensuring optimal performance and driver satisfaction.
Read blog entryThis article explores a key optical system in XR devices and highlights Synopsys Optical Solutions products for designing display systems for these innovative applications.
Read blog entryImSym provides an end-to-end, physically accurate, virtual prototype of your imaging system, with accuracy powered by CODE V and LightTools.
Read blog entryLearn unique approaches in CODE V and the RSoft Photonic Device Tools for both conventional and emerging optical systems to help designers create systems that perform as specified.
Read blog entryLearn how to solve metalens design challenges by combining a ray-based automatic design tool in CODE V with a wave-based inverse design tool, MetaOptic Designer, to design an ultra-wide angle metalens imaging system.
Read blog entry
See examples of freeform optics applications using CODE V and other Synopsys tools.
Optical engineers use CODE V to design a range of applications and leading products.
Product demos, keynotes, technical presentations, expert panels, and more
Learn how an optical engineer used CODE V’s Global Synthesis optimization, feasibility analysis, tolerancing, and yield analyses.
Read blog entry