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Our "Vision" enables a better world for you
DALSA has two main business areas:
- digital imaging solutions
- semiconductor wafer fabrication solutions
Digital Imaging Solutions
DALSA's Digital Imaging Solutions products capture images by turning light energy into electronic signals—electronic information that allows people and machines to capture scenes, make decisions and take action.
Our digital imaging groups offer a wide range of products for an even wider range of applications, but they can be grouped into three main types.
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DALSA offers sensors, cameras, and systems. • View Machine Vision product selector • View Machine Vision product overview • View Life Sciences products |
Today's vast range of vision systems include industrial and consumer product quality control, parcel tracking and routing, medical diagnosis, as well as the more recognizable digital photography. These systems can improve, enrich, or even save your life—but each one is fundamentally dependent on high quality image information.
Just as our broadcast and photography sensors provide the image fidelity to satisfy the demands of professional photographers and videographers' eyes, our industrial imaging products provide the speed, responsivity, and quality that advanced automated imaging systems require.
That is why DALSA is important to the world. Our digital imaging solutions provide better image information. By taking better images, we allow our customers to enjoy lower costs of production, reduced cycle times, higher product quality, increased flexibility, and even provide better service.
Our company is organized into divisions to serve a number of general application markets: Vision for Machines (sensors and cameras), Professional Imaging (highest-quality area sensors for professional photography and videography), Life Sciences (radiography and biotech imaging), and Digital Cinema.
Machine Vision
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Vision is fundamental to modern manufacturing. We would not enjoy the range, reliability, or affordability of electronic or plastic products available to us today without the high-speed automation and quality control enabled by machine vision. Common items such as CDs, cell phones, and the computer you're using right now all depend on machine vision at many points in their production (component manufacture and placement, system assembly, quality inspection, shipping, delivery, etc). One of DALSA's traditional strengths is providing cameras that meet the industrial speed, resolution, and image quality demands of such applications Our products can operate much faster, at much higher resolutions, with much greater precision than consumer videocameras. They can see things that "ordinary" videocameras can't.
For specific product information, visit mv.dalsa.com.
Image Sensor Solutions
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Our Image Sensor Solutions group designs and supplies the world's best professional imaging sensors. This group's very high resolution area sensors have delivered the industry's highest image quality and performace for years, making its sensors the de facto standard for professional digital still photography. The unmatched quality of the sensors and an innovative modular design for stitchable imaging regions allows us to build image sensors whose resolution is limited only by the size of the silicon wafer. We also offer industry-leading products for broadcast videography and large-field digital radiography.
For specific product information, visit our Professional Imaging site.
Life Sciences
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Life science imaging is a rapidly growing sector with tremendous business potential as well as unprecedented consumer benefits. For example, digital mammography can provide better images using less radiation in far less time than traditional film. Physicians get feedback in seconds, allowing them to be better and more efficient in diagnosing lesions and more accurate in placing biopsy needles. Patients don't have to spend 20 minutes clamped into a machine waiting for results. The benefits are clear, but the challenges are ever-increasing image quality and clarity with lower costs—challenges that DALSA Life Sciences is uniquely suited to meeting. We already supply drop-in digital replacements for traditional mammography film cassettes, and we are investing R&D in other high-growth life science imaging applications such as Protein crystallography and gene chip scanning.
For specific product information, visit lifesciences.dalsa.com.
Digital Cinema
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Through co-investment with Japan's national broadcasting giant NHK in 1998, DALSA pioneered the development of an image sensor with unprecedented performance—it has the high resolution, high dynamic range, and high speed to equal and surpass the film technology used in the feature film and entertainment industry. We have a clear lead in the imaging technology and are developing the strategic marketing and distribution partnerships we need to become a household name in the entertainment business.
For more information, visit our Digital Cinema site.
CCDs and CMOS
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CCD and CMOS are different technologies for accomplishing the same task—capturing images. Each has strengths that make it ideal for some applications...but less useful for others. Many vendors promote one to the exclusion of the other because of their vested interests, and the CCD-CMOS debate has become extremely heated. DALSA is one of the few companies with proven technology and demonstrated leadership in both technologies. We are "technology-neutral," supplying the technology most appropriate for specific solutions.
For more discussion and technical details about CCDs vs. CMOS, visit these links:
CCD vs. CMOS
DALSA Semiconductor
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Our semiconductor wafer foundry fabricates a wide range of specialty semiconductors, including image sensors,
micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for optical networking and inkjet printing, and microchips for
use in cell phones, caller ID modules, smoke detectors, and industrial and automotive controls.
Our foundry is one of the world's few remaining "open" foundries able to offer specialized services. Most larger foundries concentrate on the same lithography-driven CMOS processes
For more information, visit www.dalsasemi.com.
For more information, contact Sales.
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