Daisy Systems Corporation was founded in January 1981, in
Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. 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 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 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 ==