Zuken

Zuken Inc
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Company type	Public TSE:6947
Industry	Electronic Design Automation
Founded	1976 in Yokohama, Japan
Headquarters	Yokohama, Japan
Key people	Makoto Kaneko, CEO; Jinya Katsube, COO;
Products	CR5000 System Designer; CR5000 Board Designer; CR5000 Lightning; Cabling Designer; Cadstar
Number of employees	1,000
Website	www.zuken.com; www.zuken.co.jp

Zuken Inc is a Japanese multinational corporation, specializing in Electronic design automation. Established in 1976 with its headquater at Yokohama, Japan. Listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange and in 2004 their market capitalization was estimated as $135M.

Zuken's software is primarily used for designing printed circuit boards and Multi-Chip Modules, or MCMs.

History

1976 Zuken Inc. Established.
1978 Released "CREATE-2000"(CR-2000) for PC.(HP-1000 Platform)
1983 Zuken America Inc.(Now, Zuken USA Inc.) Established.
1985 Released Logic Design Workstation.(UNIX Platform)
1988 Released CAD/CAM for PCB "CR-3000".(UNIX Platform)
1991 Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Level-2.(the First EDA Vendor)
1992 Zuken Europe GmbH.(GERMANY) Established.
Zuken Korea Inc.(Seoul) Established.
Zuken Singapore Pte.Ltd. Established.
1993 Zuken Inc. China(Beijing) Established.
1994 Merge of Racal-Redac Ltd.
Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Level-1.(the First EDA Vendor)
Released CAD/CAM for PCB "CR-5000".(UNIX & PC Platform)
Released Data Management System "PDM-5000".
1996 Realvision Inc. Established.
2000 Merge of Incases Engineering GmbH.
2000 Zuken Tecnomatix Inc. established.
2001 Zuken NetWave Inc. established.
2002 Zuken Shanghai Technical Center Co.,Ltd. established.
2005 Zuken Taiwan Inc. established.