International. Christie has acquired the assets of Brass Roots Technologies LLC, a Texas technology innovation company specializing in consulting services and advanced optics design for high-performance display and imaging systems. The full roster of Brass Roots Technologies has been transferred to Christie and operations will continue to be based in Allen, Texas, now under the Christie brand.
"The acquisition of the brass Roots Technologies assets will contribute to the advancement and diversification of Christie's technical capabilities," said Zoran Veselic, Christie's president and chief technology officer. "We welcome the talented technical and design teams at Brass Roots Technologies, who will join ours in exploring, all together, new technologies."
Since its creation in 2009, Brass Roots Technologies has maintained a leading position in the innovation and development of essential technologies for the creation and projection of images, which with this company have reached spectacular levels. Brass Roots Technologies offers a system-level approach, technical design services tailored to customer needs, and IP technology licensing.
Its experience and dominant position are based on the development of differentiated solutions, encompassing advanced optics, mechanics and electronics. It also accumulates solid knowledge in sectors as diverse as video, entertainment or image creation for medicine, telecommunications or military and defense industries.
With its addition to Christie, the Brass Roots Technologies staff will reinforce the brand's offering with a whole range of capabilities: systems architecture, optical design and analysis, mechanical design, electronic hardware design and FPGA firmware (field-programmable logic gate matrix), software development, in-house CNC manufacturing (numerical decimal control), prototyping and testing, or functional verification.
Brass Roots Technologies equipment also has extensive experience in LCoS, LCDE and DLP projection systems, LED videowalls, digital projection systems based on lamps, LEDs, laser lighting and laser phosphor, lenses and ultra-high frame rate (ultra HFR) projection.
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