Acquired in 1999, SMD operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of DALSA Corporation. The firm is in the business of high performance solid-state imaging systems. They manufacture high speed filmless imaging cameras with uses for medical and industrial imaging. The cameras utilize an optical processor combinating charge-coupled device (CCD) and a spatial light modulator (SLM) on the same chip, a parallel arrangement which eliminates data bottleneck at the processor input so images can be acquired more rapidly than with a serial input. Silicon Mountain Design (SMD) is a leading manufacturer of high speed, high resolution CCD cameras. SMD cameras excel in applications that require scientific image quality at the highest frame rates. Customers who need powerful solutions with short lead times depend on SMD for a broad range of industrial, medical, and scientific vision applications.
