1. Elphel Inc. - Open Hardware company
Located in SLC, Utah
Designing and Manufacturing Hi-resolution, Hi-Frame Rate Cameras
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.

2. 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)

3. Applications: Document Scanning
Elphel Model 323
35-mm format Kodak CCD image
sensor
11 megapixels resoluion (4008 x
2672)
2 fps framerate
Nikon F-mount

4. Applications: Panoramic Imaging

5. Camera is regonfigurable and user-developer friendly
Web-based interface
HTML, Javascript, PHP
C, C++
Verilog HDL
/* source is inside */

6. Applications: SCINI -
Antarctic Underwater Exploration Robot
Moss Landing Marine Lab

7. Applications: NASA Global Hawk UAV
Aerial Near Space Exploration

8. Applications: Apertus - Open Source Cinema Project

9. 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.

10. International Business
Elphel cameras have “invaded” the whole
world.
And are currently present on all 7
continents.

11. 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
Available now resolution / max frame-rate

12. Model NC 373 is under development
TI DaVinci
Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
GigE, USB 2, SATA
256MB Flash, 512MB RAM