Daisy Systems
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Daisy Systems Corporation incorporated in 1981 in Mountain View, California, was a computer-aided engineering company, a pioneer in the Electronic design automation (EDA) industry. It was a manufacturer of computer hardware and software for EDA, including schematic capture, logic simulation, parameter extraction and other tools for printed circuit board design and semiconductor chip layout.
In mid-1980s it had a subsidiary in Germany, Daisy Systems GmbH.[1]
The company merged with Cadnetix Corp of Boulder, CO in 1988, with the resulting company then known as Daisy/Cadnetix, Inc.and later DAZIX. It filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990 and was acquired by Intergraph later that year. Intergraph incorporated DAZIX into its EDA business unit, which was later spun off as an independent subsidiary named VeriBest, Inc. VeriBest was ultimately acquired by Mentor Graphics in late 1999.
Daisy Systems was founded by Aryeh Finegold and David Stamm; its original investors were Fred Adler and Oak Investment Partners.
Many notable people in the EDA industry once worked for Daisy Systems, including Harvey Jones, who later co-founded Synopsys, and Vinod Khosla, who later co-founded Sun Microsystems. Aryeh Finegold went on to co-found Mercury Interactive and Dave Stamm went on to found Clarify. George T. Haber went on to work at Sun and later founded CompCore Multimedia, GigaPixel, Mobilygen and CrestaTech([2]).
