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.

 

 

 
High Performance Layout Visualization Platform
GDSII OPTIMIZATION/ HIGH SPEED NETWORK TRANSFER
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.