DFM/DFA verification

The enormous market pressure on companies that develop and/or produce electronic products means that there is no time and money left for various design iterations before a product goes to market. Some of these pressures are listed below:

  • Time to Market more and more critical
  • Enormous pressure on cost control
  • Technology evolves at lightning speed
  • EDA/Engineering processes becoming increasingly complex

In addition, the design data sent to printed board suppliers and assembly houses often cause problems in it. It may be incomplete and/or ambiguous.

Design houses will obviously have to take action if their products are to retain their competitive edge. Sintecs can provide support.

To overcome many of the difficulties caused by the pressures mentioned above, Sintecs provides Design For Assembly (DFA) and Design For Manufacturing (DFM) services. Both of these services are the result of the DFX philosophy. This philosophy aims at ensuring a product realization process that guarantees a robust "First Time Right" design/product.

Valuable time and money can be saved with our concurrent engineering process, also known as virtual manufacturing. The software used for this process is Valor, a Mentor Graphics Division, Enterprise , which is based on the application of the ODB++™ database.

The reliability of your product will improve because of consistent implementation of design and production guidelines. This applies both at printed board as well as assembly level. The result will be a flawless data flow from design to manufacturing, for both prototypes and production.

The Enterprise 3000 software will be able to run its extensive analysis such as net-list analyzer, Signal Quality Analysis, DFM and DFA checks. The design data will be thoroughly validated. The ODB++ data set can be transferred to both printed board suppliers and assembly houses for production.

From experience, we know that this method will ensure "First Time Right" design. By using high-speed design, analysis and verification techniques early in the design cycle, designers can eliminate layout iterations and ensure that products are marketed on time.

Sintecs BV is a Valor certified Design partner.