Overview

Developing and managing a tapeout flow can be a long and difficult process.  Creating repeatable processes in order to minimize the total tapeout cycle time is one of the most important steps in the design flow. 

Pinebush Technologies has long been recognized for its high performance, high capacity, and highly reliable HyperPlot suite of rasterization tools, and now brings that reliability to GDS-II and OASIS file format access.

HyperX is an integrated set of data transformation modules designed to enable the advanced physical design engineer to manage the flow of data in GDSII and Oasis formats.  HyperX is designed so that you can seamlessly work in legacy as well as future environments.  With HyperX, you are protected from the endless shifts, changes and versions of file formats.  HyperX includes core technology, information modules, conversion modules, merge, replace, and data extraction modules.

Pinebush has created a number of HyperX modules ready to integrate into most DFM flows.  The modules use core HyperX-GDS and HyperX-Oasis technologies to ensure consistency across products.  In addition, Pinebush is making the core access API routines available to customers who want to create their own specific tools.

Features and Benefits

Core Technology

Pinebush Technologies first developed the core HyperX-GDS and HyperX-Oasis building blocks for their own purpose in developing new modules and to ensure that advanced engineers could develop tools dedicated to their purpose.  These technology modules also provide the read/write power in Pinebush’s well-known HyperPlot rasterization solution.