ADIVA was established in 1982 as a Design Services company. Automata Inc., a Printed Circuit Board manufacturer located in Sterling, Virginia, purchased ADIVA in 1986. The company was moved into Automata's headquarters where Automata began to market "design and build" capability to their customers.

During this time, Automata noticed that some designs had problems in manufacturing and assembly, even though the design had passed all of the CAD system checks. ADIVA began to develop software tools to catch these problems before the designs hit the manufacturing floor. These tools became so useful that Automata demonstrated them to prospective customers as part of their "Build a Better Board" strategy. Several of these customer expressed an interest in using the tool themselves in order to strengthen their own designs.

In 1987 it was decided to spin ADIVA out of Automata as a stand alone Design Service. As a separate entity, ADIVA was finally able to begin selling the software tools which it had developed for Automata. Several OEM's partnered with ADIVA to turn the tools into a commercial package. This was completed in 1992. At this time ADIVA decided to focus exclusively on development and marketing of its design validation tools. For the next 10 years ADIVA, in partnership with its customers, has transformed itself into the leading supplier of PCB Design Validation tools in the industry,

With the start of the new millennium, the focus is to validate performance and signal integrity of the Designs. Our partners tell us that signal integrity and signal performance are critical issues for which better validation tools are needed. While ADIVA's tool set already contains a significant amount of signal integrity, it became apparent that new modules are needed to assure the signal integrity of the design concurrent with CAD design effort.