Dalsa

DALSA is a Canadian developer and manufacturer of electronic components and devices, especially of CCD and CMOS sensors and digital cinema cameras. The company was founded in 1980 by the professor Savvas Chamberlain in Canada Waterloo, who had previously taught at the university there.

History

After the founding of DALSA introduced in 1984 through an IPO. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 1996 on the open market, with around 700 employees and a turnover of over $ 100 million in the meantime one of the leading provider of semiconductor technology, cameras and image sensors. 2007 Dalsa has been voted one of the Top 100 Employers in Canada.

Dalsa is one of the few manufacturers of digital cameras that has a vertically integrated manufacturing. The company operates a " chip manufacturer " and remains one of the camera manufacturers that use both CCD sensors such as CMOS sensors.

Offices

In addition to the headquarters in Waterloo, DALSA extended its activities now with offices in Colorado Springs, Billerica, San Juan Capistrano, Bromont, Montreal, and Eindhoven; sales offices are located in Germany and Japan.

Products

Dalsa produces a diverse range of different products for industrial electronic image processing. Since 2006, the company also operates a camera rental for cinema productions in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Relevant products include cameras for the latest unmanned Mars missions of NASA, the first 4K digital cinema camera Origin or the first image sensor with over 100 million pixels, a CCD sensor with 111 million pixels.