Inkjet & Digital Printing

Pinebush Technologies Delivers HyperPlot for Synopsys Galaxy Custom Designer Solution

Friday 24. July 2009 - Pinebush Technologies, Inc., provider of HyperPlot(TM), the industry leading printing and plotting software for IC design, today announced a new solution for printing and plotting tightly integrated into Synopsys, Inc.'s Galaxy Custom Designer(TM) implementation solution.

Analog and mixed-signal designers require the ability to visualize their designs at larger scales with WYSIWYG fills, stipples and patterns. With HyperPlot’s multiple format architecture and the open architecture of Custom Designer, the Synopsys and Pinebush Technologies teams have integrated HyperPlot into Synopsys’ custom implementation environment to deliver a best-in-class rasterization solution for Custom Designer users. Utilizing HyperPlot, Custom Designer users can easily plot to a number of wide-format plotters, desktop printers, or output to multiple graphics formats, including PDF, JPEG, TIF, and Postscript.

“Our customers require a high-quality printing and plotting solution,” said Paul Lo, senior vice president and general manager of the Analog/Mixed-Signal Group at Synopsys. “Pinebush Technologies has been delivering HyperPlot to IC designers for the last two decades and has a strong reputation for the highest performance and breadth of features. At many of our current customers, HyperPlot has long been the standard printing and plotting solution, so integrating it into the Custom Designer environment was an intuitive fit.”

“Synopsys has world-class expertise in developing an extensive set of solutions for the semiconductor industry,” said George Chandler, president and chief executive officer of Pinebush Technologies. “We believe this collaboration with Synopsys to develop and enhance HyperPlot rasterization capabilities for Custom Designer will be met with strong approval by analog and mixed-signal designers.”