Barco Silex

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 Silex is active worldwide and employs about 45 employees. Barco Silex posted sales of 7,0 Million euro in 2014.

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””

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

References

External links

• Official website