Mentor has recently purchased Valor, the market leader in Design for Manufacturing (DFM) software.

Mentor's vSure DFM verification software is recognised as the industry's Best-In-Class tool for identifying the potential fabrication, assembly, and test issues in a PCB design while companies are still in the design stage. With vSure, companies can save significant time and money as fewer revisions are needed to get to production volume and fewer man-hours are spent doing PCB design reviews.

The Aberdeen Group reported that users of our DFM solution reported 57% fewer revision spins per design than those not using it. They also determined that vSure customers had an average material costs savings of $20,800 per design.

Key Benefits:

• Identifies potential fabrication, assembly and test issues while still in the design stage, saving the customer time and money
• Puts the design and DFM trade-off decisions in the hands of the design organisation instead of in the hands of their supplier
• Accelerates time-to-market as fewer prototypes need to be built to get to quality volume production
• Allows tighter synchronisation with a customer's suppliers as they can now send better, more manufacturable data in a format that also makes them more efficient