Gidel

Gidel is an Israeli hardware company founded in 1993 by CEO Reuven Weintraub, headquartered at 12 Ha'ilan Street, Northern Industrial Zone, Or Akiva, Israel 3060000. For more than 30 years the company has designed and manufactured FPGA-based imaging and vision systems for high-bandwidth, low-latency, and real-time applications. Its product portfolio is organized around four main lines: PCIe Frame Grabbers (supporting GigE Vision at 10/40/100+ Gbps, CoaXPress-12, and Camera Link interfaces), Mini Jetson Frame Grabbers under the FantoVision brand that combine NVIDIA Jetson compute modules with FPGA grabbers for edge AI, Mini Powerful FPGA Modules (FDB, Proc10M, Proc10N), and FPGA Compute Accelerators (HawkEye, Proc10A, Proc1C10M, Proc1C10N, Proc10S families).

The company also markets FPGA Imaging Libraries including JPEG and lossless image compression IP, HDR correction, and image acquisition systems (ProcFG, InfiniVision). A proprietary software suite, ProcVision, provides an end-to-end FPGA imaging development and testing environment. Key application domains include machine vision, medical imaging, automated optical inspection (AOI), military and defense, aviation and aerospace (drone cameras, aerial mapping via SkyBoost RT), and embedded vision.

Gidel holds partnerships with Altera (Intel), NVIDIA, MVTec (HALCON), and camera manufacturer illunis LLC. The company supports North America from a Boston-area office (+1 617 849 9220) and serves EMEA and APAC from the Israeli headquarters (+972-4-610-2500). The FantoVision edge AI system won the VSD Award (2023) and the inVISION Award for Quality+ Compression (2025).

Gidel has filed over 30 years of continuous product milestones, beginning with the first FPGA-based AOI system in 1994 and including the world's largest FPGA research supercomputer in 2009. With 11–50 employees, Gidel competes as a specialist FPGA imaging hardware and IP vendor serving OEMs and systems integrators in industrial, medical, and defense sectors globally.