This partnership aims to deliver fully integrated vision system platforms deploying frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) detection, targeting driver assistance, autonomous mobility, robotics and industrial automation applications.
FMCW-based LiDAR delivers significant benefits compared to direct detection-based Time of Flight (TOF) solutions, including long-range with high precision, interference immunity, per-point instantaneous velocity and motion measurement.
This partnership combines products from indie and SiLC into reference platforms enabling an order of magnitude improvement in sensing performance, manufacturability, power consumption, form factor and cost relative to competing systems.
“indie is excited to partner with SiLC to bring the processing innovation from Surya to FMCW LiDAR, offering a breakthrough reference design,” said Chet Babla, senior vice president, strategic marketing at indie Semiconductor. “By combining the software-defined high-performance - but low power - analogue and digital processing and system control capabilities of Surya, coupled with SiLC’s Eyeonic vision solution, system integrators and OEMs are enabled with 4D FMCW imaging for mass market deployment into multiple applications.”
Commenting Ralf Muenster, vice president, business development and marketing at SiLC said, “ Our state-of-the-art FMCW LiDAR sensor features the highest integration, resolution, precision, and longest range of any other competing approach, while remaining the only commercially available solution to offer polarisation information.”
Reference platforms featuring Surya and Eyeonic have already been deployed and are being evaluated by select lead automotive, tier one and industrial OEMs, and both indie and SiLC are actively developing new reference platforms to showcase the scalability and flexibility of their combined technologies.
