Getting Started with Phonon

Phonon is an industry-grade, multi-scale electro-thermal circuit simulation engine and CAD environment designed for modern semiconductor device modeling, cryogenic electronics, and topological quantum acoustics.

Architectural Highlights

1. Unified Binary Architecture: Phonon packages both its headless numerical solver CLI and its GPU-accelerated desktop visual studio into a single optimized binary:

   • Run phonon to inspect available commands or run headless simulations.
   • Run phonon gui to launch the interactive desktop CAD interface.

2. Dual-Platform Visual Deployment:

   • Desktop CAD Studio: Native desktop GUI powered by Rust (eframe/egui) with low-latency rendering and multi-threaded Rayon execution.
   • Static Web Studio: Pure client-side WebAssembly environment hosted at /studio deployable to any static web server with zero backend dependencies.

3. 6 Realism Tiers: From microscopic 1D/2D mesh TCAD drift-diffusion up to non-Abelian topological anyon braiding processors, Phonon provides seamless multi-abstraction physics.

Quick CLI Usage

Check Phonon Version and Banner

phonon

Validate a Circuit Netlist (ERC)

phonon validate examples/rc_filter.cir

Run Transient Simulation

phonon run examples/rc_filter.cir --format csv --output results.csv

Perform Parallel Parametric Sweep

phonon sweep examples/rc_filter.cir --param R1 --start 100 --stop 10000 --steps 20

Launch Native Desktop CAD Studio

phonon gui