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Since its inception in 1990, CISRA's development teams have combined expertise in algorithms, software design, ASIC and circuit board design and artwork content to develop creative system solutions. With expertise in all these areas, many novel and innovative systems have been possible. CISRA is now turning its attention to how Canon can deliver multimedia solutions for tomorrow. By combining Canon strengths in peripheral technologies, CISRA is creating the hardware and software required to integrate these technologies into cohesive multimedia systems. Software
CISRA brings leading-edge expertise to Canon, which traditionally has been a hardware company. By developing software solutions that bring isolated peripheral devices together, CISRA is integrating the Canon product range for the marketplace. CISRA has developed an enviable track record for developing software that is innovative, reliable and captures the market's attention. CISRA products are marketed by many Canon sales companies, and CISRA is currently working with many product development groups on the next generation of innovative products. |
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 Software Development Techniques used at CISRA |
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Different styles and techniques are used to tackle the bigger problems. In some cases, rapid prototyping enables early feedback from customers and development partners allowing feedback into the specification process. With expertise in object-oriented analysis and design, together with a variety of development techniques, CISRA is able to tailor its development style to the needs of any project. Hardware
CISRA's hardware group includes the largest chip design centre in Australia, as well as experienced board-level and circuit board designers. By utilising advanced chip design methodologies, CISRA has an unblemished design record of 16 ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), all working first time. |
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 ASIC Design Methodology
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 ASIC development - CISRA's ten year track record CISRA engineers design ASICs using advanced modelling techniques and a hardware description language called VHDL. This approach abstracts the ASIC design process, allowing rapid analysis and implementation of complex architectures and algorithms. This highly productive top-down approach allows much larger designs to be tackled with confidence. User Interface Design
The UID Group enhance and focus CISRA's concept development ensuring proposals are fully understood and projects achieve their potential. Their task is to gather information from various mediums and incorporate it into a coherent visual form, with suitable aesthetic quality and useability. Designers are visual communicators, they think and see in a visual form rather than technical descriptions. A designer's need for visual and tactile input and output on project work helps define and focus a project towards the realities of production. |
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Quality assurance
CISRA's quality assurance department ensures that CISRA's products are of the highest quality. As some of CISRA's products are available in 12 languages and shipping in the millions of copies, quality is not a luxury, but must be designed into the product from the beginning. System Administration
Designing 400,000 gate chips places large demands on the computing environment. CISRA's system administration department ensures that the development groups have the resources they need to get the job done quickly and reliably. |
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