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The SILICONSOFTWARE GmbH was founded as a production and development enterprise of the technology industry with corporate centre in Mannheim.
The enterprise produces custom-designed solutions for machine vision with its hardware and software developments. Main emphasis is the microEnable product line, a high speed image processing accelerator which can be installed as a plug-in card into every standard PC. With this hardware complex visual tasks can be handled in real time. The programmability of the processor and therefore the variability of the range of applications is the advantage of this technology. Complex functional units can completely be exchanged for new functions in fractions of seconds. By the reloading of the corresponding software program (cores) the hardware structures and functions of a special chip are imitated.
SILICONSOFTWARE is member of:
| Automated Imaging Association | (AIA) |  |
| CameraLink Commitee |  |
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| European Machine Vision Association | (EMVA) |  |
| Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. | (VDMA) |  |
SILICONSOFTWARE GmbH was founded in 1997 as a spin off of the University of Mannheim with the intention to establish high speed image processing accelerators based on the new technological development of reprogrammable hardware on the international markets and to make this new future market accessible to a broad and interested industrial market. The companions and developers have invest their decades of experience on this technological field in the realisation of projects in research and industry.
The enterprise name is also the idea of business: a revolutionarily new way of synergy between hardware and software. The modern technology of the reprogrammable processors (FPGA = field programmable gate array) enables the combination of a high processing speed of electronic components (hardware) and the flexible customization and interchangeability of programmings (software).
Through this significant temporal and financial advantages arise for the customer and for the producer. Changes in the hardware can be converted instead of months within hours. Individual customizations of the hardware solutions can be implemented also after installation. The know-how of also finished projects remains unchanged by the recyclability of the code for the future. This concept guarantees a short time-to-market at the uncompromising highest processing speed.
Use of the FPGA chips for individual hardware solutions is economically competitive already as of small till middle quantities. The hardware libraries built up modularly lower the development costs and time at the same time. And finally this technology offers a new way of future guarantee: even operational devices and machines can be updated by mouse clicks, i.e. implementation of the latest data formats or standards.
As developer and service provider for custom-designed industrial solutions the combination of hardware, software and operational environment is the new innovative concept of SILICONSOFTWARE. With composite hard and software solutions in series, there is no need for own developments of the customer.
As customer you can nevertheless decide whether to purchase prefabricated solutions, wether to program hardware by yourselves and to adapt it to your problem or whether SILICONSOFTWARE shall generate an individual customer solution for you. Customer orientation is therefore not only a headword for us.
The rapid development in the semiconductor industry guarantees an exponential performance increase of the FPGA processors also in future which considerably is above that one of the standard processors of today's computers. Therefore the computing capacity of FPGAs is the ideal technology for high-level application in machine vision..
Since 2008, SILICONSOFTWARE is resident in Mannheim, Steubenstrasse 46
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| SILICONSOFTWARE Entrance Steubenstrasse 46 |
SILICONSOFTWARE was founded in 1997. Since the company is directed by the executive managers Dr. Ralf Lay and Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz.
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| Dr. Ralf Lay | Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz |
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