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Press Releases

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Active Silicon announces even faster interface boards in its expanded FireBird range

January 2020

Active Silicon is turbo-charging imaging systems with its new range of FireBird CoaXPress frame grabbers. The 4xCXP-12 acquisition card (PCIe Gen3 x8; CoaXPress v2.0) is the latest addition. With speeds up to 12.5 Gbps per link, it supports the fastest cameras on the market and allows acquisition of high-speed, high-resolution images in real-time. For more cost-sensitive projects, the 4xCXP12-3PE4 version offers excellent value and features.

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Latest Harrier camera interface board delivers more choice for autofocus zoom block camera applications

October 2019

Active Silicon have added a new product to their innovative Harrier range – the USB/HDMI Camera Interface Board. This interface solution provides simultaneous HDMI and USB Video Class (UVC) v1.1 output for autofocus zoom cameras including the Tamron MP1110M-VC, MP2030M-GS and Sony EV series.

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Harrier SDI Adapter extends capability for challenging vision applications

June 2019

Active Silicon is pleased to announce the launch of its newest addition to the Harrier range – the Harrier SDI Adapter. This is a single channel host-end acquisition solution for 3G and HD-SDI video streams. The interface is designed to work with a variety of cameras to capture high-definition images and transfer these at extremely high speed in challenging environments.

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Active Silicon expands in the UK

April 2019

Active Silicon has announced the opening of its new production and operations facility in Langley, UK, following weeks of fit-out and preparation. The company has re-located its assembly, testing, inspection and supply chain functions to the new site. All R&D, design, support and Head Office responsibilities will remain at the flagship office in Iver, just a couple of miles up the road.

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New block camera from Sony supported by proven Active Silicon interface boards

January 2019

Active Silicon has confirmed that its existing field proven Active FCB-EV-HD-SDI and the Harrier 3G-SDI interface boards are fully compatible with Sony’s new EV7520A block camera. The combination of Sony’s latest block camera and Active Silicon’s trusted hardware offers superior high-definition video and image capture in a compact solution.

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Harrier camera interface board supports long-reach, real-time HD video transmission

November 2018

Active Silicon are pleased to launch our new Harrier interface board in 75 Ohm and 50 Ohm variations, offering long-reach, real-time HD digital and analog video transmission for the Tamron MP1010M-VC and MP1110M-VC cameras, as well as various Sony FCB and other autofocus zoom cameras.

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Active Silicon launches new cost-effective CoaXPress frame grabber

July 2018

Active Silicon reveals their latest frame grabber – the FireBird Single CoaXPress Low Profile board. Maintaining all the industry-leading features of a high-performance FireBird board, this newest arrival has been optimized for cost so it has wider appeal for a greater range of applications.

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ActiveCapture – acquisition, analysis and display

February 2018

We are excited to announce the launch of ActiveCapture – our latest front-end software for FireBird frame grabbers. With ActiveCapture, the users gain easy access and control to all installed CoaXPress or Camera Link cameras and frame grabbers.

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Active Silicon supports real-time GPU processing

December 2017

All our frame grabbers are compatible with both AMD‘s DirectGMA and NVIDIA’s GPUDirect for Video. Our well documented API and Software development kit (SDK) sample code allows for easy integration of parallel computing techniques on standard PC hardware.

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COM Express based Vision Processing Unit

March 2017

Our latest embedded vision product is the Vision Processing Unit (VPU), designed to acquire image data from USB3 VisionTM cameras, process the image stream in real-time and provide several options for data output, including 3G-SDI.

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FireBird in CompactPCI Format – the new Camera Link 3U cPCI Serial frame grabber

October 2016

Active Silicon now offers FireBird frame grabber technology in the CompactPCI Serial format with extended temperature range for industrial embedded applications.

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Active Silicon introduces the FireBird Camera Link Deca Low Profile frame grabber

June 2016

The FireBird Camera Link Deca Low Profile is a four lane Gen2 PCI Express board in half height design to be used in small embedded PC enclosures and rackmount cases.

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