The new "photonics" technology in Electric is not from TSMC and should not
have been labeled such. No additional JAR files are needed to use it. The
technology is built from a few public-domain devices and is intended only
as an example of how Electric can handle photonics. An sample design,
Maybe the TSMC plugin is needed for this. The one indicated in the
program when you click Help->About Electric, then click Plugins and see
"Missing: Technologies (cmos90, tsmc180)".
The ChangeLog.txt in the source code of the repository hints that the
developers, like SMR, GVG, JKG, and DN,
