Merge pull request #12 from Axiomatic-AI/add-iklayout-2

Add iklayout

Author: jcbwndsr

.fernignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # Specify files that shouldn't be modified by Fern
 src/axiomatic/axtract.py
-src/axiomatic/magic.py
+src/axiomatic/magic.py
+src/axiomatic/pic_helpers.py

src/axiomatic/pic_helpers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import iklayout  # type: ignore
+
+
+def plot_circuit(component):
+    """
+    Show the interactive component layout with iKlayout.
+    See: https://pypi.org/project/iklayout/
+
+    In order to make this interactive, ensure that you have enabled
+    interactive widgets. This can be done with %matplotlib widget in
+    Jupyter notebooks.
+
+    Args:
+        component: GDS factory Component object.
+            See https://gdsfactory.github.io/gdsfactory/_autosummary/gdsfactory.Component.html
+    """
+    path = component.write_gds().absolute()
+
+    return iklayout.show(path)