QuadView®
Schematic Viewer: Create interactive schematic views directly from searchable PDFs and other standard formats (e.g., HPGL, WMF).
Netlist Navigator: Reconstruct virtual schematics from netlists and explore detailed nodal and pin-level data.
Layout Viewer: Import layouts from formats like GENCAD, CAMCAD, FATF, ODB++, or native CAD files (Cadence, Mentor, Zuken, etc.).
Fault Ticket Analyzer: Hot-links fault tickets to schematic and layout views for fast issue identification.
Interactive Cross-Probing: Seamlessly navigate between schematic, layout, and netlist views, including integration with TestWay™ and QUAD®.
Coverage Visualization: View test coverage and pin-level diagnostics using customizable color assignments.
Functional Test Editor: Define and cluster functional test coverage using intuitive tools and the Sherlock diagnostic algorithm.
Short-Circuit Search Assistant: Intelligent highlighting of potential solder bridge areas for faster fault localization.
Custom Configuration: Scales from simple component locator to full factory-wide failure tracking system.
QuadView® is a powerful, scalable board visualization suite that can function as a standalone tool or be fully integrated into customer applications. Designed for use throughout the product lifecycle—from design and prototyping to manufacturing and repair—it enables users to visualize schematics, layouts, netlists, and fault data, accelerating diagnostics and improving test coverage analysis.
Key Challenges, Streamlined Solutions
QuadView® combines intelligent analysis, interactive views, and seamless CAD integration to accelerate fault diagnosis and optimize test coverage from design to production.
Cross-probing between schematic, layout, and netlist views allows users to instantly see connections and components across different representations of the board.
Schematic and Layout Viewers with coverage visualization enable early design-stage analysis, helping engineers detect test gaps and improve coverage before production.
The Fault Ticket Analyzer links test system fault data directly to the board layout and schematic, significantly reducing fault-finding time.
PDF digitization and Netlist Navigator allow the creation of fully interactive schematic views from simple PDFs or netlists, making data usable even without original CAD files.
Support for standard and native CAD formats ensures seamless integration with industry tools, simplifying layout visualization and enabling faster onboarding.
The Short-Circuit Search Assistant intelligently highlights likely short-circuit areas, accelerating the troubleshooting process.
The Functional Test Editor with the Sherlock algorithm lets users define and visualize functional clusters and predict fault locations based on historical data, improving diagnosis accuracy.
Modular and scalable architecture allows QuadView® to function as a simple viewer or a full factory-wide failure tracking system integrated with networks and databases.
Benefits/Value to the Customer
Accelerated Debugging
Rapid fault localization and reduced repair time
Improved Test Coverage
Enhanced DfT analysis and functional test visualization
Seamless
Integration
Easily fits into existing design, test, and repair workflows
Interactive Visualization
Real-time correlation of design data and test results for greater engineering efficiency.
Zero Pre-processing Needed
Work directly with native files and eliminate manual setup delays.
