Teledyne DALSA (formerly DALSA Corporation) is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of specialized electronic imaging components (image sensors, cameras, frame grabbers, imaging software) as well as specialized semiconductor fabrication (MEMS, high voltage ASICs). Teledyne DALSA is part of the Teledyne Imaging group, the leading-edge imaging companies aligned under the Teledyne umbrella.

History

The company was founded in

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, Canada in 1980 by imaging pioneer

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at the

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. The company was capitalised in November 1984 and was publicly listed on the

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in May 1996. The company originally concentrated in developing and generating charge coupled device (CCD) image sensor technology. It has since grown into an industry leader in

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technology, employing approximately 1000 individuals worldwide and earning revenues of more than $200 million. Headquarters remain in

, Canada, but the company has expanded operations into

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; Santa Clara,

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;

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and

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;

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, in addition to sales offices in

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, and

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. DALSA was acquired by

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in 2010.

Technology and Applications

Teledyne DALSA designs and manufactures digital imaging products for industrial, scientific, and medical applications, including semiconductor wafer inspection, printed circuit inspection, general

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, digital

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, medium format photography, aerial

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, and astronomy. Notably, many of the image sensors employed in NASA’s ''Spirit'', ''Opportunity'', and ''Curiosity'' Mars Rovers were manufactured by Teledyne DALSA. Teledyne DALSA is one of few industrial digital camera producers that has a

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supply chain. Teledyne DALSA owns the wafer forge where many of its imaging sensors are manufactured and is one of the few manufacturers offering both CCD and

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sensors. In 2005, Teledyne DALSA acquired Canadian

frame grabber A frame grabber is an electronic device that captures (i.e., "grabs") individual, digital still frames from an analog video signal or a digital video stream. It is usually employed as a component of a computer vision system, in which video fram ...

and camera manufacturer Coreco (based in Montreal). In doing so, Teledyne DALSA added software, acquisition and further gigabit Ethernet technology to its portfolio. Teledyne DALSA developed a

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camera (the Origin camera system), but despite remarkable imaging performance the system was not a commercial success and the project was wound down in 2009.

Recognition

In 2007, Teledyne DALSA was named one of

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, as published in

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magazine, one of a few manufacturing companies to receive this honour. In 2010, Yole Développement named Teledyne DALSA’s wafer foundry as "the leading independent pure‐play MEMS foundry worldwide".

References

External links

Teledyne DALSA Website
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