Summary

Artwork Conversion Software, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Steve DiBartolomeo and Antonio Morawski and incorporated in 1989. Both founders have advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering and had over 10 years experience in RF, hybrid and semiconductor design prior to founding Artwork. The company develops CAD translation programs, CAD viewers, plotting software and IC packaging software. Artwork is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA with a development office in Manhattan Beach, CA. The company has been profitable since its inception, has no debt and is privately held.

Developer Associations

AutoDesk 3rd Party Developer

Altium Technology Channel Partner


Cadence Connections Program

SolidWorks Partner Program


Si2 Sillicon Integration Initiative

Target Markets

• IC designers
• IC packaging
• PCB designers
• MCM designers
• Microwave/RF Designers
• MEMs designers

Customer Base

Over 5000 customers worldwide including Alcatel, AMD, Applied Materials, Agere, Bosch, KLA Tencor, Motorola, Ericsson, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, Photronics, Siemens, Seagate, Sony, TRW ...

• GDSII (IC mask)
• CIF (IC mask)
• Mann & Electromask (PG)
• MEBES (e-beam mask writer)
• Mentor BoardStation
• Allegro/APD
• DXF (AutoCAD)
• OA (Open Access)
• OASIS (2nd gen GDSII)

• Archive (EGS and HP ADS)
• IGES (mechanical design)
• Gerber (274D, 274X, Pentax)
• ODB++
• Postscript (printers)
• PCL4 (Laser printers)
• TIFF and BMP (bitmaps)
• RTL and CCRF (raster plotters)
• MIC (Micronic Laser Writer)

OEM and Strategic Relationships

Artwork works closely with both large and small CAE/CAD companies. Because we specialize in translators we can often focus more resources on a specialized translation problem than a larger company is willing to. Some of our OEM relationships include:

Platforms and Operating Systems

• Solaris
• Windows
• Linux

Japan

Dynatron is a leading supplier of Gerber CAM in Japan. Dynatron OEM's artwork's software.

El Segundo, CA

AWR, a leading supplier of high-frequency electronic design automation, uses Artwork's NETEX-G [ODB++ or Gerber/Drill importer and net extraction] to bring in layout's from PCB designs into their Microwave Office simulator. AWR also uses our AWROUT tool to import data directly from Cadence APD and Allegro.

San Jose, CA

Artwork OEMs an AIF import/export converter for Cadence's Allegro Package Designer (APD) software as well as a 3D viewer and DRC.

Pittsburgh, PA

Ansys is a leader in heat and flow simulation software; their thermal analysis software, IcePak, integrates Artwork's NETEX-G software in order to extract conductor and drill geometry from printed circuit board layouts.

Fremont, CA

DCG Systems uses Artwork's QIS as the engine for their new GDSDirect software which drives their new IREM, EBeam, FIB P2X and FIB P3X equipment.

Darmstadt, Germany

CST develops and markets software tools for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in all frequency bands. CST has integrated Artwork's NETEX-G and GBRUNion into its Microwave Design Studio as an efficient way to import PCB layout data.

Taiwan

Hortek manufactures integrated laser processing machines and uses Artwork's GBRUnion software to prepare PCB data for controlling the cutting of solder paste stencils, and for etching markings into the surface of front panels.

Milpitas, CA /Austin, TX

Artwork has multiple OEM relationships with KLA-Tencor: Qckvu for Prolith is used by the PROLITH division to extract small regions of a mask layer from a large GDSII file: QISLIB is used by the metrology division to display wafer defects overlayed with the CAD data, and QCKVU3 is used to display large GDSII&OASIS files.

Franklin, MA

Midas manufactures machine vision equipment (AOI) for substrates used in hybrid circuits, LTCC and thinfilm. Artwork provides a high resolution rasterizer as well as an adaptive sizing program used to generate the reference templates from the original CAD data.

Taby, Sweden

Micronic Mydata offers laser pattern generators for photomask manufacturing for semiconductors, displays, and a wide range of packaging and other high-end lithographic needs. Artwork has developed two translators, GBR2MIC and DXF2MIC that convert CAD data into Micronic's pattern format ...

Greece

Helic licenses our DXF translator in their VeloceRF and VeloceWired tools for simulating wire inductance in IC packages.

Bellevue, WA

Physware licenses our DXF translator in their simulation tools.

Somerville, MA

Lumarray licenses our QISLIB for converting GDSII files to high resolution bitmap data for their maskless optical lithography tools.

Suzhou P.R. China

SVG Optronics licenses our GDS_RIP for converting GDSII files to high resolution bitmap data for their maskless optical lithography tools.

Fishers, NY

Sigrity offers an advanced BGA/MCM design package, Unified Package Designer, (previously Encore) that includes our conversion engines to and from Gerber, DXF and Excellon Drill.

San Jose, CA

Synopsys is a leader in software tools for creation of sub micron masks. The next generation of Proteus, their OPC mask correction tool, incorporates incorporates Artwork's QIS viewing engine into IC Workbench, enabling it to open and display extremely large GDSII and OASIS files.