Customers

Many of our customers use our devices in OEM applications and they would rather us not share that information for competitive reasons. We respect their wishes and have not listed them here. If you are an existing customer and would like us to share your story here, please contact us.

Retail Test Equipment

Jova Solutions CMOS manufacturing and camera developers XEM3010	Jova Solutions is an engineering test equipment development firm. Jova determined an urgent need in the market for a reasonably priced test system for CMOS image sensors. "The Opal Kelly XEM3010-1000 is an expertly-designed module that is the heart of our instrument... the central core of our CMOS Image Sensor Lab ISL-1600. It provides a development platform and a communication layer that has dramatically reduced development engineering expense and has accelerated our time-to-market," stated Martin Vasey, CEO, Jova Solutions.
Fibics Incorporated Semiconductors and materials science / metallurgy XEM3001, XEM3010	Fibics Incorporated provides analysis solutions to semiconductor and materials science / metallurgy clients, specializing in focused ion beam (FIB) applications and analytical services. 90% of Fibics' work focuses on solving "real-world, commercial problems." According to Mike Phaneuf, Fibics' President, "Opal Kelly XEM3010 and XEM3001 modules have been used as the heart of half a dozen designs for solving those problems."
e/de/vis GmbH Quality-control equipment XEM3001, XEM3005	e/de/vis GmbH, is a manufacturer of non-destructive test equipment using infrared cameras. Opal Kelly XEM3001 and XEM3005 products are used for signal generation, frame grabbing, and synchronization tasks.

In-House Test Equipment

Static Control Components Laser toner remanufacturing XEM3001	Static Control Components, the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of parts and supplies supporting the laser toner remanufacturing industry, uses Opal Kelly XEM3001 modules in in-house test equipment to test their assembled products.
Mustang Technology Defense XEM3010	Mustang Technology, a defense systems company with specific expertise in radar, RF sensors, aircraft and missile integrated systems, and guidance and control systems, uses the Opal Kelly XEM3010 to test their Radar prototype hardware.
W5 Networks Wireless systems for retail XEM3001, XEM3010	W5 Networks, a provider of cost-effective electronic shelf label systems for retailers, uses Opal Kelly XEM3001 and XEM3010-1500P in its in-house test systems. The Opal Kelly products speed up the testing process in W5's test fixtures.

Medical

Tecella University research, biopharma XEM3005	TECELLA supplies HTS/UHTS measurement systems that accelerate and improve drug discovery and pre-clinical research. Opal Kelly's XEM3005 modules are used in TECELLA's products for digital system control and data acquisition.
Black Forest Engineering Medical equipment XEM3001	Black Forest Engineering specializes in applications focusing on 3D imaging, IR cameras, medical scanners, and mammogram and dental X-rays. The company uses Opal Kelly's XEM3001 module to control the read out of ICs (ROICs) and to enable the reading back of digital data for storage, until the computer can take the next data points.

Government / Military

BHO Instruments Homeland security, military XEM3001, XEM3005	BHO Instruments develops data acquisition and processing systems for x-ray and gamma-ray semiconductor radiation detectors.
Look Dynamics Government XEM3010	Look Dynamics develops and sells equipment for analyzing satellite imagery to government customers. It uses Opal Kelly's XEM3010 modules as daughter boards to move data to/from the Look Dynamics system and a PC.
NuWaves Engineering Government XEM3010	NuWaves Engineering is a premier supplier of RF Systems, Subsystems, Products, and Engineering Services for industrial, military and commercial markets. Mike Trimble, Project Engineer at NuWaves says, "Opal Kelly is the digital brains going from the 8-bit world into a proprietary module."
Black Forest Engineering Military and research XEM3010	Black Forest Engineering specializes in applications focusing on 3D imaging and IR cameras primarily used by the military and research labs to evaluate technology. The company uses Opal Kelly's XEM3010 module to control the read out of ICs (ROICs), read back the image data, and format the data into a Camera Link Camera Interface that is captured by a computer with a Camera Link frame grabber.
CAE Military flight simulators XEM3001	CAE is a world leader in providing simulation and modeling technologies and integrated training solutions for the civil aviation industry and defense forces around the globe. The Opal Kelly XEM3001 module is used in CAE's Optical Encoder for Telescope application.

Product Prototyping

Stanford University 3D Cameras XEM3010	"Digital cameras keep packing in the pixels, but they can't hide the truth: Photos are flat. Now, engineers at Stanford University have developed a way to bring 3-D clarity and depth to the world of 2-D photography." Popular Science Online Article
RPM Associates Smart phones, cellular phones XEM3010	RPM Associates uses Opal Kelly's XEM3010 module for prototyping image processing algorithms and as a display timing controller for small displays for mobile applications. The end products are smartphones and cell phones. Rainer Malzbender, RPM's founder, says, "Opal Kelly provides a very easy PC interface for experimentation - software, firmware, and hardware."
Dream Inventions Toys and consumer electronics XEM3005	Dream Inventions designs chips that go into products from consumer toys to consumer electronics companies. According to Tom McWilliams, Dream Inventions' founder, "The main attraction for me is the use of the Opal Kelly board with the Macintosh for development."
Neuronix Robotics XEM3010	The patent-pending Neuronix technologies will be designed into vision-guided industrial robots and into military and video surveillance systems. The Opal Kelly FPGA-based XEM3010 is used to perform buffering and DSP functions, as well as communicate to a PC via USB.
Sandstrom Engineering SONAR XEM3001	Sandstrom Engineering uses Opal Kelly modules to emulate SONAR signals converted to serial busses.

Custom Modules

	Opal Kelly worked with Adaptive Technologies, Inc. to help build their Remote Monitoring Microphone. Opal Kelly was involved in the design of the system hardware, application software, and audio processing algorithms for equalization.
	Phonak Hearing Systems, a world leader in the design and production of hearing instruments, has contracted Opal Kelly on a number of projects to build instrument prototypes and tools for in-house development.
	Opal Kelly and Visbox have partnered to develop new technologies for use in their high-performance visualization systems. The details of this partnership and the projects we're working on are currently confidential.
	Opal Kelly designed the hardware HDL logic behind Jova's Image Sensor Lab™. In fact, an Opal Kelly XEM3001 was instrumenal during the prototype stage and the XEM3010-1000 at the heart of the current ISL-1600 production unit. Our partnership continues as we look forward to collaborate on new, exciting products.
	Opal Kelly worked with National Semiconductor to design their Analog Launch Pad (ALP), an evaluation platform for their video and other products. The ALP (or XEM3020) is a Spartan-3E based platform which handles up to 3.25GHz signaling and incorporates FrontPanel™ to communicate with their extensive Python framework.