P-CAD
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Industry | Electronic design automation |
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Founded | 1982 |
Founders | Richard Nedbal, Roy Prasad |
Defunct | 2000 |
Headquarters | |
Products | P-CAD |
P-CAD was the brand name of Personal CAD Systems, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of electronic design automation software. It manufactured a CAD software available for personal computers. The company was divested into ACCEL Technologies, which was purchased by Altium in 2000. The last release of the software was in 2006, before it was retired in favor of the Altium Designer product.
History
Personal CAD Systems was founded in 1982 by Richard Nedbal and Roy Prasad.
P-CAD was a play on personal computers, which were just becoming popular, following the launch of the IBM PC. 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. The company originally raised US$500,000 from CrossPoint Venture Partners and US$3,000,000 in a second round from New Enterprise Associates and Robertson, Coleman and Stephens.
P-CAD went on to become the company with the biggest installed base of users of
P-CAD's flagship products included
The last version of P-CAD was P-CAD 2006 with Service Pack 2, released in 2006. This was the last release made by Altium, who retired the product in favor of Altium Designer.[4]
See also
- P-CAD Interface for SPECCTRA
References
- ^ Electronic Business, Volume 11. Cahners Publishing Company. 18 February 2001. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "Durch Zusammenschluß soll CAD-Markt abgedeckt werden:: Lockheed vereint P-Cad und Cadam". Archived from the original on 2018-04-15.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.cadhistory.ne. Archived from the original on 15 April 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Protel Shareholder News, January 2000