verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message barco silex type public company industry electronic engineering founded 1991 headquarters louvain la neuve belgium key people thierry watteyne ceo products engineering crypto ip video ip jeg2000 aes public key trng and memory controllers revenue 7 0 million 2014 number of employees 45 2014 slogan your electronic engineering partner website www.barco silex.com barco silex is an electronic contract engineering company that delivers design services custom hardware and software development and hardware ip core products . its specializes in jpeg 2000 encoder decoder low latency crypto aes des hashing public key and memory controller ip cores for fpga asics platforms . it has application experience for image and video processing printing and vision aerospace do 254 and other industrial fields . barco silex offers solutions for security and video coding applications . barcosilex is headquartered in louvain la neuve belgium and has design facilities for sales & marketing customer support r & d and manufacturing in france barco silex is active worldwide and employs about 45 employees . barco silex posted sales of 7 0 million euro in 2014 . contents 1 active markets 2 history 2.1 acquisitions 2.2 divestments 3 management 4 references 5 external links active markets edit barco silex offer contract engineering services custom hardware and software development and hardware ip core products for a variety of professional markets healthcare entertainment telecom & aerospace . history edit barco silex is an acronym that originally stood for belgian american radio corporation and sil icon ex pert acquisitions edit divestments edit in the early 1990s silex was created by 4 engineers coming from acec that closed the asic development activities . in 1995 barco acquired silex for its asic activities as asic technology was a key need for the development of the barco rgb projectors . in 1997 silex changed its name into barco silex . in 2000 barcosilex opens an asic engineering office in aix en provence close to the es2 fab of asics in 2003 barcosilex opens an engineering office in ghent to work close with philips medical . in 2013 barcosilex start with an engineering activity in paris france . management edit ceo 1991 thierry watteyne references edit external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title barco silex & oldid 689249621 categories companies of belgiumfilm and video technologymedical imagingbel mid companiescompanies based in duluth georgiahidden categories articles needing additional references from december 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 november 2015 at 22 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view