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| Company type | Public company |
|---|---|
| Industry | electronic engineering |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Louvain la Neuve, Belgium |
| Key people | Thierry Watteyne, CEO |
| Products | Engineering, Crypto IP, Video IP, JEG2000, AES, Public KEY, TRNG and Memory controllers |
| Revenue | €7,0 Million (2014) |
| Number of employees | 45 (2014) |
| Website | www.barco-silex.com |
Barco Silex is an electronic contract engineering company that delivers design services, custom hardware and software development, and hardware IP core products. Its specializes in video codecs like JPEG 2000, VC-2 HD (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, 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, Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, and R&D/design in Ghent, Barco Silex is active worldwide and employs about 40 employees. Barco Silex posted sales of 7,0 Million euro in 2015.
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, telecom & aerospace.
History
Barco Silex is an acronym that originally stood for Belgian American Radio COrporation and Sil’’’icon’” Ex’’’pert””
Acquisitions
Divestments
- In 1991, Silex was created by 4 engineers coming from ACEC, that was closing her ES2/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 France close to the ES2 fab of ASICS
- In 2003, BarcoSilex opens an Engineering office in Ghent Belgium to work close with the Netherlands and Flemish region of Belgium.
- In 2013, BarcoSilex starts with a software engineering activity in Paris France.
- In 2014, BarcoSilex starts with the sales of Security / Crypto IP for the semiconductor market.
- In 2015, BarcoSilex starts with the development and sales of a HSM ( Hardware security module).
- In 2016, BarcoSilex starts with the engineering and sales of a A/V board for the pro A/V market.
Management
CEO 1991 - Thierry Watteyne