Unmanned flying devices to be produced in Armenia

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 5, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian Instigate Company will implement the production of unmanned flying devices in Armenia, in particular, educopter, photocopter and agrocopter. This was reported to Armenpress by the Chief Engineer of Instigate CJSC Vahagn Poghosyan, stating that preliminary agreement on the devices supply has been already achieved.

“One of the Danish companies, functioning in the field of production of the unmanned devices, which cooperates with an American company, does not manage to provide for the necessary production volumes and has agreed with the Armenian Instigate to launch the production of the unmanned devices in Armenia to provide for the necessary volumes of the devices”, - informed Vahagn Poghosyan.

To the question – how much does one educopter cost – the Chief Engineer of Instigate CJSC noted that the price for the device is $5,000.

Instigate is an engineering company with hardware and software teams headquartered in Yerevan, Armenia. Four R&D branches of the company are located in different cities of Armenia.

The mainpartnersand customers are in the USA and EU.

The main area of the expertise is system level design of electronic systems, EDA specific software design and parallel programming. Thedesign servicesrange from software design and quality assurance to comprehensive application engineering with an emphasis on audio/video coding and communication. The company provides design services in development of massive parallel algorithms, system modeling and simulation, hardware-software decomposition and co-design, SW development and quality assurance and RTL design and verification.

Since 2009 Instigate has extended the range of its services withsoftware accelerationusing General Purpose Graphical Processing Units such as NVIDIA's and ATI's cards and using modern multi-CPU devices with special optimizations for Non-Uniform-Memory-Architecture.

Along with the ordinary design services Instigate has developedsoftware libraries and tools, which were proven when being applied in the company’s design services.