Joaquin Matres

mostly layout the AWG subcomponents, for design this [package](https://github.com/dnrobin/awg-python) already does a pretty good job

Awesome! could we make a new release?

the tests worked for me 

@jan-david-fischbach @simbilod is this something you could take a look at?

Hi Lucas, we usually don't mix `pya`, (the GUI API for klayout) and `gf.kdb` (the python API) something klayout does internally to store the metadata from Component.ports, component.info and component.settings...

hi Lukas, this works great for me ```python import gdsfactory as gf c = gf.Component() mmi = c.add_ref(gf.components.mmi1x2()) c.write_gds('/tmp/2.gds') c.show() ```

you can also use `gf.port.get_ports_list()` which works both for Components and Instances/ComponentReference

How can we do this and don't create duplicated cell names, when, for example, using a file watcher?

@simbilod if you have some time maybe you can take a look at the meep plugin

yes, @bdice used cupy for that where can we find some benchmark code for it? it would be great to compare CPU to GPU