News Active Silicon bought for £6.3m
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Vision firm Active Silicon has been sold to UK electronics group Solid State for £6.3m. Solid State supplies industrial and military
markets with electronic components, assemblies and manufactured units, often for use in harsh environments. It operates through two main divisions: manufacturing through Steatite, and value-added supplies through Solid State Supplies and Pacer. Te group specialises in complex engineering challenges, often requiring design-in support and component sourcing for computing, power, communications, electronic and optoelectronic products. Te acquisition allows Solid State to
further its operations in machine and computer vision, while Active Silicon will have resources to be able to develop its
embedded computing and AI capabilities. Te initial consideration of £6.3m is being
settled out of Solid State’s existing cash resources and banking facilities. Active Silicon was founded in 1988 by
Colin Pearce, originally as a Xilinx FPGA consultancy. Chris Beynon, now technical director, was also involved in the company from the start. It evolved into an imaging firm, selling
machines to life sciences, medical imaging, industrial inspection and other niche sectors. In 2008 it was one of the companies that developed the Coaxpress interface standard, which won the Vision Award at the Vision show in Stuttgart in 2009. While now part of the Solid State group, it will continue to operate as Active Silicon
with sales, production and customer support continuing without interruption or change. Commenting on the acquisition, Pearce
said: ‘We are pleased to become part of the Solid State group and firmly believe the synergies of our embedded electronics expertise, combined with Solid State’s portfolio of computing platforms, will lead to an acceleration of our profitable growth in the expanding areas of AI and embedded computing in general. We’re grateful to all our customers who have placed their trust in us to deliver innovative, quality-driven vision components. Tis acquisition ensures that we’ll be able to continue to invest in the research and development needed to keep their vision systems evolving and adding value to their applications.’
News from EMVA By Thomas Lübkemeier
EMVA will host its business conference as an online event this year, and postpone the physical conference in Sofia to 2022. Despite light at the end of the tunnel thanks to vaccination programmes, restrictions on travel are still in place and will probably remain so for a while. The business conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, will be held from 12 to 14 May 2022. The special edition of this
year’s conference, taking place online on 10 and 11 June, will have top-notch talks, excellent networking
and interactive sessions. The agenda is composed of keynotes, invited talks, pitch presentations from startups, a panel discussion, a fireside- chat, as well as the pre- scheduled individual video meeting opportunities before and after the conference sessions. Registration is now open: https://bc-2021-virtual.
emva.b2match.io/.
EMVA 1288 release 4.0 Version 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 standard has been released. The previous release, 3.1, applied EMVA 1288 via a simple linear model and was limited to cameras with a linear curve and without any pre-processing. While this model is being continued with some improvements in ‘Release 4.0 Linear’, a new module ‘Release 4.0 General’ has been added in the latest
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version. The new module is able to characterise a non- linear camera or a camera with unknown pre-processing thanks to a universal system- theoretical approach of the EMVA 1288 standard. As with the linear camera model, all application-related quality parameters can be measured with release 4.0. In addition, the standard has been expanded in version 4.0 to characterise the latest generation of image sensors and cameras according to the application. Raw data of any image acquisition modality can now be characterised according to the standard, and the extended wavelength region now ranges from UV to the swir range. EMVA has prepared
an extensive training programme, with two- or three-day training courses for
release 4.0 to be held in the future, in co-operation with EMVA member companies. Framos will host a course from 19 to 20 May, taught by Professor Dr Bernd Jähne:
https://imaging.framos.com/ training-emva-hands-on/.
New member We are happy to welcome Light Lab as an EMVA member. It is a California- based depth perception technology firm that believes human-like vision is the key to enabling machines to navigate their environment. Their multi-camera depth perception platform improves on existing stereo vision systems by using additional cameras, novel calibration, as well as unique signal processing to provide excellent depth quality across the camera’s field of view.
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