Valor was a developer of tools for the fabrication, design, and assembly segments of the printed circuit boards (PCB) manufacturing industry. Its tools – vPlan, an enterprise-level process engineering solution for electronics assembly; vManage, which provides a shop floor data collection and control system; vCheck, a quality management system for electronics manufacturers; Valor DFM, an automated verification tool for PCB layout design that helps PCB designers to follow manufacturing rules and constraints to ensure defect-free designs; PCB pre-production CAM fabrication system; and Trilogy, a manufacturing engineering solution.
The company also provides Valor Parts Library, which contains commercial electronic component part-numbers and dimensioned package models with accurate graphical contour, pin contact areas and positions, dimensional tolerances, and attributes information; ODB++, a CAD/CAM data exchange format capturing CAD/EDA, assembly, and PCB fabrication knowledge in one database; Valor Universal Viewer, which supports interactive viewing and navigation of ODB++ and ODB++(X) formats of the PCB data model; and EDA library tools.
Valor was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2011.
