Joaquin Matres

We moved plugins development to it to https://github.com/gdsfactory/gplugins

Interesting package with some more models https://github.com/alexsludds/photonflux/blob/main/photonflux/component_models.py it may be great to fit models using simulations and measurements

should be reopened in https://gdsfactory.github.io/gplugins/index.html

After the [gdstk segmentation issues](https://github.com/heitzmann/gdstk/issues/122) Here is an MVP with [klayout backend](https://github.com/gdsfactory/gdsfactory/tree/klayout_backend) @growly is also looking into using VLSIR as a backend

We were able to get rid of segmentation faults in gdstk by avoiding inheritance from gdstk.Polygon and gdstk.Label gdsfactory 6.0.0 will be released soon using gdstk backend :tada: we also...

Troy, I think you were going to send a PR with a non-Manhattan router @Hsuan-Tung @nikosavola @95-martin-orion

https://github.com/instadeepai/jumanji

yes, I looked at some PCB routing packages - https://github.com/freerouting/freerouting/issues/132#issuecomment-1210868519 (java) as well as CMOS routers - https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/TritonRoute/ (C++) - https://codeberg.org/LibrEDA/mycelium-router (rust) Skandan had a demo with - https://github.com/instadeepai/jumanji PRs...

Thank you for sharing Juan, this works great for metal i was able to make some cases with optical routes using your code  the trick is to have radius...

Yes, when this happens I usually change the position of one of the components that we are routing to