Teledyne DALSA (formerly DALSA Corporation) is a Canadian company specializing in the design and manufacture of specialized electronic imaging components (image sensors, cameras, frame grabbers, imaging software) as well as specialized semiconductor fabrication (MEMS, high voltage ASICs). Teledyne DALSA is part of the Teledyne Imaging group, the leading-edge imaging companies aligned under the Teledyne umbrella.
History
The company was founded in
Waterloo, Ontario
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professor
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University of Waterloo
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. The company was capitalised in November 1984 and was publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in May 1996. The company originally concentrated in developing and generating
charge coupled device
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors. Under the control of an external circuit, each capacitor can transfer its electric charge to a neighboring capacitor. CCD sensors are a ...
(CCD) image sensor technology. It has since grown into an industry leader in
semiconductor
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technology, employing approximately 1000 individuals worldwide and earning revenues of more than $200 million. Headquarters remain in
Waterloo, Ontario
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, Canada, but the company has expanded operations into Billerica,
Massachusetts
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California
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Montreal
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Quebec
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, in addition to sales offices in
Germany
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Teledyne DALSA designs and manufactures digital imaging products for industrial, scientific, and medical applications, including semiconductor wafer inspection, printed circuit inspection, general machine vision, digital
radiography
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photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is the science and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through the process of recording, measuring and interpreting photographic images and patterns of electromagnetic radiant ima ...
, and astronomy. Notably, many of the image sensors employed in NASA’s ''Spirit'', ''Opportunity'', and ''Curiosity'' Mars Rovers were manufactured by Teledyne DALSA.
Teledyne DALSA is one of few industrial digital camera producers that has a
vertically integrated
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supply chain. Teledyne DALSA owns the wafer forge where many of its imaging sensors are manufactured and is one of the few manufacturers offering both CCD and CMOS sensors. In 2005, Teledyne DALSA acquired Canadian frame grabber and camera manufacturer Coreco (based in Montreal). In doing so, Teledyne DALSA added software, acquisition and further gigabit Ethernet technology to its portfolio. Teledyne DALSA developed a
digital cinema
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camera (the Origin camera system), but despite remarkable imaging performance the system was not a commercial success and the project was wound down in 2009.
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magazine, one of a few manufacturing companies to receive this honour.
In 2010, Yole Développement named Teledyne DALSA’s wafer foundry as "the leading independent pure‐play MEMS foundry worldwide".