![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() P-CAD went on to become the company with the biggest installed base of users of (EDA), with over 10,000 users by 1988. The board of directors included John Mumford (Crosspoint), Dick Kramlich (NEA) and Sy Kaufman (Robertson, et al.). The startup originally raised 500,000 from CrossPoint Venture Partners, and US$3,000,000 in a second round from and Robertson, Coleman and Stephens. The vision of the company was to disrupt the existing hegemony of $250,000 CAD systems based on mainframe computers and custom workstations, and make electronic CAD available to the masses at a cost under $10,000. P-CAD was a play on personal computers, which were just becoming popular, following the launch of the IBM PC. ![]() Both were former executives of, a custom semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California.Īlso, part of the founding team were Gregory Houston, VP Marketing, a former Calma executive, and Chi-Song Horng, Director of software engineering (later promoted as a Vice President), a former AMI software engineering manager. (May 2013) () P-CAD was the brand name created by Personal CAD Systems, Inc., a company founded in 1982 in Los Gatos, California, by Richard Nedbal (CEO) and Roy Prasad (VP of Engineering). Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. This article needs additional citations for. ![]()
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