Daisy Systems

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This article is about an early CAE company. See Daisy Systems (disambiguation) for other companies with the same name.

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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.

After a merger with Cadnetix Corp of Boulder, CO in 1988 (and then known as Daisy/Cadnetix, Inc.and DAZIX), it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990 and was acquired by Intergraph in late 1990. 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 Corp. in late 1999.

Founders: Aryeh Finegold and David Stamm. Original investors: Fred Adler and Oak Investment Partners. Many notable people in the EDA industry used to work in Daisy Systems, including Harvey Jones, who later co-founded Synopsys, and Vinod Khosla, who later co-founded Sun Microsystems. Areyeh Finegold went on to co-found Mercury Interactive and Dave Stamm went on to found Clarify.