Editing Daisy Systems (section)

{{Short description|American engineering company}}
{{about||other companies|Daisy Systems (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox company
| name             = Daisy Systems Corporation
| logo             = File:Daisy Systems logo.svg
| type             = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as        = 
| foundation       = [[Mountain View, California]] {{nowrap|({{start date and age|January 1981}})}}
| founder          = Aryeh Finegold<br />David Stamm
| location_city    = Mountain View, California
| location_country = {{nowrap|United States}}
| industry         = Computer software/hardware
}}

'''Daisy Systems Corporation''', incorporated in 1981 in [[Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California|Mountain View, California]], was a [[computer-aided engineering]] company, a pioneer in the [[electronic design automation]] (EDA) industry.

[[File:Daisy Logician (51333058754).jpg|thumb|Daisy Logician computer]]

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<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1986/5/1163088/ |title= Archive |accessdate=2007-12-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024170026/http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1986/5/1163088/ |archivedate=2009-10-24 }}, ''[[Computerwoche]],'' no. 5, 1986 {{in lang|de}}</ref> and one in Israel.

The company merged with Cadnetix Corporation of [[Boulder, Colorado]] in 1988, with the resulting company then known officially as '''Daisy/Cadnetix, Inc.''' with the trade name '''DAZIX'''. It filed for protection under [[Chapter 11]] of the Federal Bankruptcy Code<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/02/business/company-news-daisy-systems.html?src=pm|title=Company News; Daisy Systems|date=August 2, 1990 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=August 26, 2011}}</ref> 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. The Veribest tool suite became Mentors flagship layout tool. Today it is known as Mentor Xpedition.

Daisy Systems was founded by [[Aryeh Finegold]], [[David Stamm]] and [[Vinod Khosla]]; its original investors were Fred Adler and Oak Investment Partners.

Daisy along with [[Valid Logic Systems]] and [[Mentor Graphics]], collectively known as DMV, added front end design to the existing [[computer-aided design]] aspects of computer automation.