Company History:• Elphel Inc. was founded in 2001
• after eye-openning experience with Open Source
• without any start-up capital...
• ...but with a vision about open hardware cameras.
Elphel Inc. - Open Hardware company Located in SLC, Utah
Designing and Manufacturing Hi-resolution, Hi-Frame Rate Cameras
Hardware: NC353L
Tech specs:
✔ 5 Megapixel CMOS Sensor
✔ Exchangeable Lens (c-mount)
✔ 75 Megapixels/second Throughput
✔ FPGA with Image pipeline
✔ Embedded Linux computer
(webserver, Ethernet, USB, SATA connections)
Applications: Document Scanning
Elphel Model 32335-mm format Kodak CCD image sensor
11 megapixels resoluion (4008 x 2672)
2 fps framerate
Nikon F-mount
Applications: Panoramic Imaging
Camera is regonfigurable and user-developer friendly
Web-based interface
HTML, Javascript, PHP
C, C++
Verilog HDL
/* source is inside */
Applications: SCINI -
Antarctic Underwater Exploration Robot
Moss Landing Marine Lab
Applications: NASA Global Hawk UAV
Aerial Near Space Exploration
Applications: Apertus - Open Source Cinema Project
Our Success:
Open nature of camera design, the main features of our products
● Open Design ● High End Product
helped Elphel to become a successful business.
International BusinessElphel cameras have “invaded” the whole world.
And are currently present on all 7 continents.
Whats next?Elphel-Eyesis -
panoramic camera • 9 cameras in array (very small
parallax)
• Resolution: 38MPix (45MPix before stitching)
• Up to 5 FPS at full resolution
• Up to 12 hours of recording at full resolution / max frame-rate Available now
Model NC 373 is under development
TI DaVinci
Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
GigE, USB 2, SATA
256MB Flash, 512MB RAM