Editing Daisy Systems

{{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.

== People ==

Many notable people in the EDA industry once worked for Daisy Systems, including Harvey Jones, who became the CEO of [[Synopsys]], and [[Vinod Khosla]], who, a year later in 1982, co-founded [[Sun Microsystems]].  Aryeh Finegold went on to co-found [[Mercury Interactive]], and Dave Stamm and Don Smith went on to co-found [[Clarify (company)|Clarify]]. 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 joining [[Foundation Capital]] as General Partner. [[George T. Haber]] went on to work at Sun and later founded [[CompCore]] Multimedia, [[GigaPixel]], [[Mobilygen]] and [[CrestaTech]]. Dave Millman and Rick Carlson founded EDAC (now [[ESD Alliance]]), the industry organization for EDA vendors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://esd-alliance.org/about/background |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605092651/http://esd-alliance.org/about/background |archive-date=2016-06-05 |title=Background {{!}} The Electronic System Design Alliance}}</ref>

== Software ==
Daisy applications ran on the '''Daisy-DNIX''' operating system, a [[Unix]]-like operating system running on Intel [[80286]] and later processors.

In 1983
'''DABL''' ('''Daisy Behavioral Language''') was developed at Daisy by Fred Chow. It was a hardware modelling language similar to [[VHDL]]. 
The use of DABL for simulation models of processor interconnection networks is described by Lynn R. Freytag.<ref>{{cite journal |title=PARBASE-90, International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures and Their Applications|date=March 1990 |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.1109/PARBSE.1990.77203|s2cid=60703201 }}</ref>

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