ADI Engineering was founded in 1990 on a progressive model of Open IP that is the cornerstone of our entire customer engagement approach. Unlike traditional Single Board Computer (SBC) vendors, Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) and OEMs who open up their design IP only under extreme conditions, for over 20 years ADI has built its business based on a unique model of IP openness, flexible licensing and customer-directed manufacturing – even for our off-the-shelf SBC products.
Everything ADI designs – even our standard products and customer-specific derivatives based on them – are available for licensing and direct customer manufacturing.
ADI offers well-established product manufacturing backed by world-class factories, mature processes, and talented manufacturing and engineering professionals. But we understand that as embedded customers increasingly rely on COTS or modified COTS products to reduce time to market and development costs, new supply line risks arise.
Open IP directly addresses these substantial new risks and fundamentally re-balances the “Build-or-Buy” decision and the benefits of design customization at all production volumes, making it a powerful asset to ADI’s customers:
- Removes third-party dependencies, protecting against supply line disruptions and assuring long-life production availability
- Openly enables direct manufacturing at your sole discretion, for any reason and at any time of your choosing
- Assures lowest possible cost of production across all volumes, since there is always an option for direct manufacturing
- Eliminates single-vendor lock-in
- Reduces R&D expenditures and time to market while providing access to the latest technologies with minimum time to market and NRE
- Customers benefit from ADI’s best-in-class off-the-shelf embedded computing products without giving up the ability to control ongoing manufacturing and engineering