Santa Cruz, CA - Artwork Conversion has joined the Si2 and will offer a family of tools crafted as "plug-ins" for Open Access.

The Open Access database and API is vendor neutral and makes interoperability between EDA applications much more straightforward than previously possible. Many new EDA startups have developed complete applications using OA as the database; it is also possible to write plug-ins for OA that other applications can use.

This plug in performs boolean operations including Union, Minus and XOR. It also supports data sizing for both Manhattan and all angle data.

This plug in returns the metal area/density when provided with a region query.

This plug in rasterizes the data coming from a region query and sends the resulting bitmap to the calling application or to disk. The rasterizer supports very high resolutions and can output uncompressed or compressed bitmaps.

This plug-in is a complete layout database viewer with full pan and zoom, cell selection, layer fill, measurement tools and figure ID tools.