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Company History: Elphel Inc. was founded in 2001 after eye-openning experience with Open Source without any start-up capital... ...but with a vision about open hardware cameras. Elphel Inc. - Open Hardware company Located in SLC, Utah Designing and Manufacturing Hi-resolution, Hi-Frame Rate Cameras

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Company History:• Elphel Inc. was founded in 2001

• after eye-openning experience with Open Source

• without any start-up capital...

• ...but with a vision about open hardware cameras.

Elphel Inc. - Open Hardware company Located in SLC, Utah

Designing and Manufacturing Hi-resolution, Hi-Frame Rate Cameras

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Hardware: NC353L

Tech specs:

✔ 5 Megapixel CMOS Sensor

✔ Exchangeable Lens (c-mount)

✔ 75 Megapixels/second Throughput

✔ FPGA with Image pipeline

✔ Embedded Linux computer

(webserver, Ethernet, USB, SATA connections)

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Applications: Document Scanning

Elphel Model 32335-mm format Kodak CCD image sensor

11 megapixels resoluion (4008 x 2672)

2 fps framerate

Nikon F-mount

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Applications: Panoramic Imaging

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Camera is regonfigurable and user-developer friendly

Web-based interface

HTML, Javascript, PHP

C, C++

Verilog HDL

/* source is inside */

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Applications: SCINI -

Antarctic Underwater Exploration Robot

Moss Landing Marine Lab

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Applications: NASA Global Hawk UAV

Aerial Near Space Exploration

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Applications: Apertus - Open Source Cinema Project

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Our Success:

Open nature of camera design, the main features of our products

● Open Design ● High End Product

helped Elphel to become a successful business.

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International BusinessElphel cameras have “invaded” the whole world.

And are currently present on all 7 continents.

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Whats next?Elphel-Eyesis -

panoramic camera • 9 cameras in array (very small

parallax)

• Resolution: 38MPix (45MPix before stitching)

• Up to 5 FPS at full resolution

• Up to 12 hours of recording at full resolution / max frame-rate Available now

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Model NC 373 is under development

TI DaVinci

Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA

GigE, USB 2, SATA

256MB Flash, 512MB RAM