Paragon Software, Inc.

Our Products

We offer CAD readers for all of the most popular CAD formats. Our modular software design allows our clients to purchase only those CAD readers needed to support their business. In addition, our post processors are also modular. Our clients may purchase post processors to exactly match the hardware options in their Takaya systems thus minimizing cost.

Software Features

Tests Performed:

Power Nets Resistance Tests:

  • Power to Ground Tests
  • Power to Power Tests

Analog Measurements:

  • Resistors
  • Capacitors
  • Inductors and Ferrites
  • Diodes and LEDs
  • Transistors
  • Fuses
  • Jumpers
  • Transformers
  • Switches

Shorts Measurements:

  • Adjacent IC Pins
  • Adjacent Connector Pins
  • Adjacent VIAs

Network Tests:

  • C- Net Capacitance Tests
  • D- Net Protection Diode Tests
  • Backward Parts
  • Missing and/or Wrong Parts
  • Open SMT Pins
  • Shorted Nets

Optimization:

Redundant tests for capacitors, resistors, etc., in parallel are automatically eliminated.

Redundant parallel shorts tests are eliminated.

Only one C- and D- test step per network is generated thus eliminating redundant checks for protection diodes.

Takaya test programs can be optimized with respect to follow-on boundary scan testing. C-, D-, and shorts tests in the Takaya test program are automatically jumped for nets covered by JTAG.

These optimization features typically reduce the number of test steps by 50% or more without any reduction in test coverage. This means 50% less run time on the tester per board and therefore twice as much test capacity.

Other features:

User configurable parts library to allow special tests for resistor packs, transformers, switches, diode packs, dual transistor packs, etc.

Standard netlist sorted by both netname and reference designator and cross-referenced to the pin coordinate numbers in the test program.

Statistics report to record test coverage, test steps, and all settings used in the translation for future reference.

Automatic insertion of guard points for resistors connected to power nets.

The translation software can be run from either Windows or DOS.