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| Company type | Public company |
|---|---|
| Industry | electronic engineering |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Louvain la Neuve, Belgium |
| Key people | Thierry Watteyne, CEO ] |
| Revenue | €7,0 Million (2013) |
| Number of employees | 45 (2014) |
| Website | www.barcosilex.com |
Barco Silex is a electronic contract engineering company that delivers design services, custom hardware and software development, and hardware IP core products. Its specializes in JPEG 2000 (encoder, decoder, low latency), Crypto (AES, DES, Hashing, Public Key) and Memory Controller IP cores for FPGA, ASICs platforms. It has application experience for image and video processing, printing and vision, aerospace (DO-254) and other industrial fields. Barco Silex offers solutions for Security and Video coding applications.
BarcoSilex is headquartered in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, and has design facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in France, Barco is active worldwide and employs about 45 employees. Barco posted sales of 7,0 Million euro in 2013.
Active markets
Barco Silex offer contract engineering services, custom hardware and software development, and hardware IP core products for a variety of professional markets:
healthcare, entertainment industrialtelecom & aerospace.
History
Barco Silex is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio COrporation and Sil’’’icon’” Ex’’’pert””
Acquisitions
Divestments
- In the early 1990s, Silex was created by 4 engineers coming from ACEC, that closed the ASIC development activities.
- In 1995, Barco acquired Silex for its ASIC activities, as ASIC technology was a key need for the development of the Barco RGB projectors.
- In 1997, Silex changed its name into BARCO SILEX.
- In 2000, BarcoSilex opens an ASIC engineering office in Aix en Provence close to the ES2 fab of ASICS
- In 2003, BarcoSilex opens an Engineering office in Ghent to work close with Philips Medical.
- In 2013, BarcoSilex start with an engineering activity in Paris France.
Management
CEO 1991 - Thierry Watteyne
Barco Silex
Barco Silex is a micro-electronic design house established in 1991, that belongs to the Barco group and has both offices and design teams in Belgium and France.
See also
References
- "About Barco Silex". Barco-silex.com. Retrieved 2014-02-04.