“Distributed aperture radar offers a path to enhance the resolution of radar systems while eliminating the need for thousands of antenna channels,” according to NXP. “It coherently fuses information from multiple radar sensors on a vehicle to create a larger effective antenna. The technology enables angular resolution below 0.5°, offering lidar-like performance for precise mapping of the environment – conventional radar sensors operate between 2 and 4°.”
The start-up is Zendar
“Distributed aperture radar technology is fundamentally early fusion from distributed radar modules,” said Zendar CEO and founder Vinayak Nagpal. “The lidar-like performance is a breakthrough for next-generation ADAS.”
Both cameras and lidar can be fooled by rain, fog and dusty conditions. Radar is immune to these, is less expensive, but has far lower resolution that might not reveal the shape of objects.
Zender concept combines the outputs of multiple inexpensive radar front-ends in a central computer, and claims that is can achieve 10x resolution compared with conventional radar, and it is able to “provide high fidelity information, enabling higher levels of autonomy and ADAS under all weather conditions.”
In the NXP case, the software will be implemented on NXP’s SAF8x ICs that combine multiple RF channels with microcontroller cores and specialist radar processing accelerators, and its S32R radar processors.
The combined ICs and software is being offered to vehicle OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. “Application development can start immediately, and the launch is expected to be scheduled for next-generation OEM platforms,” said NXP.
Abonnieren fuer regelmaessige Marktupdates.
Bleiben Sie auf dem neuesten Stand der Branchentrends, indem Sie unseren Newsletter abonnieren. Unser Newsletter ist Ihr Zugang zu erstklassiger Marktexpertise.
Micron will get $6.1 billion in US Chips Act grants to help build fabs in New York and Idaho. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York announced the award and said the money would go towards building two fabs in New York by 2030 and o
Earlier today TSMC announced Q1 revenue up 12.9% y-o-y at $18.87 billion and profit up 8.9% y-o-y at $6.96 billion. Compared to Q4, the Q1 revenue was down 5.3% and net income was down 5.5%. Gross margin for the
The Q1 smartphone market grew 7.8% q-o-q to 289.4 million units, says IDC. It was the third consecutive quarter of market growth, Notes: • Data are preliminary and subject to change.
2023 sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell 1.3% to $106.3 billion from 2022’s record $107.6 billion, says SEMI. China was the biggest market, growing 29% y-o-y to $36.6 billion, followed by Korea whi
TSMC had Q1 revenue up 16.5% y-o-y at $18.54 billion up from $16.72 billion Q1 2023. For March, TSMC had revenues that were 34.3% up y-o-y and 7.5% up m-o-m at $6.2 billion. It was the biggest m-o-m rise since Nove
After two years of decline, the worldwide traditional PC market returned to growth during the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24) with 59.8 million shipments, growing 1.5% year over year, according to IDC RECOMMENDED ARTICLESHMI claim
