CALAY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED
THE COMPANY
Background
Calay Systems, Incorporated, was founded in August 1982 in Irvine, California. The Company develops, manufactures, and markets computer-aided design (CAD) systems for printed circuit board (PCB) design, specializing in routing acceleration. Calay Systems, Incorporated, shares technology and research and development funding with Calay Systems of West Germany, as well as major stock holdings in each company. Otherwise, the companies are separate and independent from each other.
Highlights
The following are recent Calay Systems highlights listed in reverse chronological order:
• January 1986—Calay Systems expanded its sales and technical field-support operations, opening new branches in Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Orlando, Florida; and Toronto, Canada. The Company also made additions to its existing facilities in Santa Clara, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.
• December 1985—Calay introduced the Calay ZXIOO engineering workstation for schematic capture.
• October 1985—The Company introduced the V04, an upgrade of the V03 PCB CAD system.
• September 1985—Summit Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital group, invested $7 million in Calay and became a minority owner of the Company.
• March 1985—Calay announced a new version of the V03 CAD system for printed circuit boards that includes automatic necking and bending of traces as well as new graphics capabilities such as hardware pan and software zoom.
Organization
Calay maintains its corporate headquarters in Irvine, California, at facilities totaling 82,000 square feet. Research and development, systems integration, sales and marketing, and administrative functions operate out of this facility.
As of January 1986, Calay employed 90 people in North America.
Research and Development
The Company's research and development is located in Irvine, California; Boulder, Colorado; and West Germany. Calay's product development efforts are focused on the automation of the PCB design process.
Marketing and Sales Support
Calay markets its products through a direct national marketing and sales force. The Company has regional offices in Chicago, Dlinois; Dallas, Texas; Santa Clara, California; and Wellesley, Massachusetts. Regional offices are full sales and service facilities. The Company's products are sold primarily into the aerospace, defense, and commercial electronics industries. Calay maintains sales offices in the following cities:
• Irvine, California • Schaumberg, Illinois (Customer education center)
• Santa Clara, California • Gaithersburg, Maryland
• Toronto, Canada • Waltham, Massachusetts (Customer education center)
• Orlando, Florida • Piano, Texas
Training
Calay's customer education program consists of three courses: Board Design, Post-Processing, and Schematic Generation. The Board Design course, one week in duration, covers areas such as hardware system and software management, MGIOS (the Calay design system), auto-routing, net list entry, and routing technologies. The Post-Processing course, three days long, covers areas such as the Calay Editor, drill data preparation and output, and data preparation for post-processing. The Schematic Generation course is two days long and covers schematic generation on the ZXIOO. Calay's customer education centers are located in Irvine, California, and Waltham, Massachusetts. There are no fees for any of the training courses, regardless of the number of participants in a session.
MAJOR HISTORICAL MILESTONES
Listed below in reverse chronological order are some of the events that have shaped Calay's history in the electronics CAD/CAM industry:
• 1982—The Company started in Southern California with three employees, marketing the V03 System.
• 1982—The Calay V03 System was unveiled in West Germany.
• 1980—The first generation of Calay's products, the VOl, was installed in Europe.
• 1979—The Calay CAD system was introduced in West Germany.
CAD/CAM PRODUCTS
Calay's product offering is based on an integration of proprietary processor hardware and software with OEM hardware in the Calay V04 CAD workstations and the ZXIOO workstations.
Calay's principal product is the V04 workstation for PCB design, using a Digital Equipment Corporation LSI 11/73 and three Calay-proprietary processors that work in parallel with a hardware accelerator. Features include the Calay automatic router as well as automatic placement capabilities with programs designed for handling surface-mount devices. The V04 comes with a color graphics package that allows the user to utilize interactive functions for data preparation, creation of libraries, and reentrant placement or routing changes and modifications.
Based on the LSI 11/23 processor, the RPR-300 is Calay's standalone automatic routing accelerator. TTie RPR-300 is designed to free the V04 for other interactive work and may be interfaced with other CAD systems.
The ZXIOO is Calay's engineering workstation for schematic capture. Based on Texas Instruments' Professional Computer or IBM's personal computer, the ZXIOO provides a single schematic data base for on-line design rule checking and instant access to all schematic sheets as well as schematic data transfer link to the Calay V04 featuring forward and backward annotation. Please refer to Table 1 for information on Calay's product offering.
Table 1
Calay Systems, Incorporated
CAD/CAM Products
Model Platform Application
V04 DEC LSI 11/73 Printed circuit board
ZXIOO IBM PC/AT Schematic capture
RPR-300 DEC LSI 11/23 Automatic router
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