Tartan Laboratories

Tartan Laboratories
Company typePrivately held
IndustryComputer software
Founded1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Founder
FateAcquired in 1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Successors
Headquarters,
ProductsLanguage compilers
Revenueabout $8 million
Number of employees
about 80

Tartan Laboratories, Inc., later renamed Tartan, Inc., was an American software company founded in 1981 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specialized in programming language compilers, especially for the language Ada. It was based on work initially done at Carnegie Mellon University and gradually shifted from a focus on research and contract work to being more product-oriented. It was sold to Texas Instruments in 1996. Part of it was later acquired by DDC-I in 1998.