Xi Graphics' graphics driver and X server products deliver high performance while maintaining high quality. Ten years of experience in developing software for the newest graphics chips probably qualifies our team as expert in the field.

The easy graphics sub-system tasks can be done by others, given enough time. The more technically difficult requirements (usually) with tight time schedules often wind up at Xi Graphics after others have "broken their pick."

Xi Graphics' Summit Series products conform to industry standards, including, but not limited to, specifications for the X Window System and OpenGL, and are tested for conformance. This is not always true for the driver/X servers shipped with the Linux distributions.

Having developed graphics drivers for several hundred graphics cards and dozens of graphics chip architectures, Xi Graphics has become very familiar with the details of graphics hardware, to the point that we sometimes find (and work around) hardware bugs missed by the chip developer. This hardware knowledge is important when it comes to designing good graphics drivers.

Real-time Systems and OpenGL

Xi Graphics' hardware-accelereated OpenGL pipelines are fast, (code) efficient, and can be used "stand-alone," i.e., without 'X'. Systems that use RTOSs, need strong OpenGL performance, and do not use the X Window System ('X') are natural prospects for Summit Series graphics drivers.

Since Xi Graphics has developed its own hardware-accelerated OpenGL rendering pipelines, we can add one or more particular ARB extensions required for your project.

Commercial Products and/or Military Programs that rely on good graphics and that have life spans of several to many years can be a challenge to Product and Program Managers. Xi Graphics can provide long term specialized maintenance and support of such products/programs.

As part of Xi Graphics' services available for long-lived graphics intensive medical systems, graphics code bases can be isolated and maintained separately from the constantly changing graphics environment, providing stability of code, and tracability of changes, etc.

Our highly portable internally-developed code base, coupled with our extensive experience with many graphics chips, CPUs and OSs, allow us to provide very fast turnaround on time-critical projects without sacrificing software quality or performance.

Most computer systems are used in a "general purpose" environment where many different (and changing) applications are used. Dedicated systems generally are designed to do one application, and do it very well. Casino gaming systems and medical IC systems are just two examples. Dedicated systems can sometimes benefit significantly from optimizations of the graphics sub-system software.