ADIVA Corporation… the advanced PCB Design Validation Software Solution

  • Saves you Time & Money
  • Decreases Time to Market
  • Increases Engineering Productivity
  • Improves Product Reliability
  • Solves Complex Customer Requirements
     

ADIVA Solutions - Industry Leader for 24 Years

  • Focused on Design Verification for PCB Designers
  • Used by Leading Technology Companies Worldwide
  • Easy to Install… Easy to Use… Easy to Maintain
  • Integrated with CAD Systems for Easy Access and Use
  • Table Driven and Flexible Rule Sets with User Selectable Reporting
  • Low Cost of Ownership…No Scripts…No Consultants…No Dedicated Support Personnel

This capability to decrease time to market and save money by reducing revision spins has been validated by a recent Aberdeen Study which reports a $26,000 savings and 40 day reduction in time to market per design for companies using Design for Manufacturing Tools such as ADIVA. Using ADIVA on one design will pay back the money invested in the ADIVA Software Solution.

ADIVA’s software allows you to view violations within seconds of starting ADIVA Design Review, even while additional checks are processing.  Productivity is increased dramatically with the ADIVA Software Solution.

ADIVA’s checks are table driven which make them easy to set up and maintain.  You can have different validation tables for specific layers, groups of nets, and specified areas within a layer.  As an example you could have one set of checks for inside the BGA areas and another set for outside the BGA areas with different values. This incredible flexibility provides the capability to check your design with ease and minimize false violations. Once you view a violation, you have the option to accept or correct the violation.  If accepted, the violation will not appear on subsequent runs of the board. Violations in need of correction can easily be displayed back to the CAD system for quick repair.

CUSTOMERS: Sun MicroSystems, Motorola, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Agilent, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Juniper Networks and Cisco, are a few of the companies successfully using ADIVA tools.

ADIVA builds the board using the manufacturing data (not the design data) in software. This virtual board is then processed through the full range of Net List Compare, Design Rules Check (DRC), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and also available AdivaView, our smart viewer.

PLATFORMS supported include Windows XP / Vista / Win7, Sun Solaris, HP UX, RedHat Enterprise Linux. We use the same floating license configuration as most of the major design systems on the market today, Acresso FLEXLM.

INTERFACES are available for CAD systems by using extracted Gerber data, drill files, net lists and aperture lists. We have fully integrated our system into the Mentor,  Cadence and Zuken menus to automate the entire process as well as displaying any discrepancies that we find directly back into the CAD database.

ADIVA is also a member of the Mentor OpenDoor, Cadence Connections and Zuken's worlwide partnership programs.

INSTALLATION is simple and easy. Our software tools come complete and ready to install. You don't need to spend money or time writing scripts or customizing the software to work at your site. All variable data including DRC and DFM checks are table driven and user configurable.

If you would like to send us your design data, we will run a benchmark and email the results back to you. If you are interested, just let me know which CAD system you are using - Mentor, Allegro, PADS, Zuken, etc.

 
     
   
 
 
 

ADIVA was established in 1982 as a Design Services company. Automata Inc., a Printed Circuit Board manufacturer located in Sterling, Virginia, purchased ADIVA in 1986. The company was moved into Automata's headquarters Automata began to market "design and build" capability to their customers.

During this time, we noticed that some designs had problems in manufacturing and assembly, even though the design had passed all of the CAD system checks. ADIVA began to develop software tools to catch these problems before the designs hit the manufacturing floor. These tools became so useful that Automata demonstrated them to prospective customers as part of their "Build a Better Board" strategy. Several of these customer expressed an interest in using the tool themselves in order to strengthen their own designs.

In 1987 it was decided to spin ADIVA out of Automata as a stand alone Design Service. As a separate entity, ADIVA was finally able to begin selling the software tools which it had developed for Automata. Several OEM's partnered with ADIVA to turn the tools into a commercial package. This was completed in 1992. At this time ADIVA decided to focus exclusively on development and marketing of its design validation tools. For the last 15 years ADIVA, in partnership with its customers, has transformed itself into the leading supplier of PCB Design Validation tools in the industry,

With the start of the new millennium, the focus is to validate performance and signal integrity of the Designs. Our partners tell us that signal integrity and signal performance are critical issues for which better validation tools are needed. While our tool set already contains a significant amount of signal integrity, it became apparent that new modules are needed to assure the signal integrity of the design concurrent with CAD design effort