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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software and hardware |
| Founded | Mountain View, California(January 1981; 45 years ago (January 1981)) |
| Founder | Aryeh Finegold David Stamm |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California ,United States |
Daisy Systems Corporation, incorporated in 1981 inMountain View, California, was acomputer-aided engineering company, a pioneer in theelectronic design automation (EDA) industry.
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Daisy Systems Corporation was founded in January 1981, inSilicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It was a manufacturer ofcomputer hardware andsoftware for EDA, includingschematic capture,logic simulation, parameter extraction and other tools forprinted circuit board design and semiconductor chip layout.
In mid-1980s, it had a subsidiary inGermany, Daisy Systems GmbH[1] and one in Israel.
The company merged with Cadnetix Corporation ofBoulder, Colorado in 1988, with the resulting company then known officially asDaisy/Cadnetix, Inc. with the trade nameDAZIX. It filed for protection underChapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code[2] in 1990 and was acquired byIntergraph later that year. Intergraph incorporated DAZIX into its EDA business unit, which was later spun off as an independent subsidiary namedVeriBest, Inc. VeriBest was ultimately acquired byMentor Graphics in late 1999. The Veribest tool suite became Mentors flagship layout tool. Today it is known as Mentor Xpedition.
Daisy Systems was founded byAryeh Finegold,David Stamm andVinod Khosla; its original investors were Fred Adler and Oak Investment Partners.
Daisy along withValid Logic Systems andMentor Graphics, collectively known as DMV, added front end design to the existingcomputer-aided design aspects of computer automation.
Many notable people in the EDA industry once worked for Daisy Systems, including Harvey Jones, who became the CEO ofSynopsys, andVinod Khosla, who, a year later in 1982, co-foundedSun Microsystems. Aryeh Finegold went on to co-foundMercury Interactive, and Dave Stamm and Don Smith went on to co-foundClarify. Tony Zingale became CEO of Clarify and then CEO of Mercury Interactive and later CEO of Jive Software. Mike Schuh co-founded Intrinsa Corporation before joiningFoundation Capital as General Partner.George T. Haber went on to work at Sun and later foundedCompCore Multimedia,GigaPixel,Mobilygen andCrestaTech. Dave Millman and Rick Carlson founded EDAC (nowESD Alliance), the industry organization for EDA vendors.[3]
Daisy applications ran on theDaisy-DNIX operating system, aUnix-like operating system running on Intel80286 and later processors.
In 1983,DABL (Daisy Behavioral Language) was developed at Daisy by Fred Chow. It was a hardware modelling language similar toVHDL. The use of DABL for simulation models of processor interconnection networks is described by Lynn R. Freytag.[4]
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