The Shearwater Group currently represents three (3) EDA firms
involved in the development of products for the back end,
or physical, aspect of design automation.
HyperPlot
HyperXpress
HyperPlot is the world standard
for complex plotting of integrated circuit designs. HyperPlot includes
a wide variety of input formats and output drivers
for direct printing of Cadence DF-II database, Oasis, GDSII,
Mebes, PostScript, JPEG and other file formats.
HyperXpress is a high-performance
software raster image processor (RIP) that leverages
the strengths of HyperPlot for other technical CAD,
GIS, and A/E/C markets.
LAVIS is
a next generation layout platform that supports
the largest designs at the highest performance. LAVIS
supports more layout and reticle formats than any other
product.
Saratoga Data Systems products incorporates
a number of advanced technologies to impact data volume
problems, including reduction of data file sizes and
performance improvement of actual data transfer rates.
