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These new chips are enabling car manufacturers to advance vehicle autonomy and safety within their automotive portfolio
echnological innovation within autonomous and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is growing
in momentum exponentially, as consumers demand more capabilities from their vehicles. Matching this demand, Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced a new range of automotive lidar, clock and radar chips to help manufacturers bring more autonomous features to a wider range of cars. “Our latest automotive analogue and
embedded processing products help automakers both meet current safety standards and accelerate toward a
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collision-free future,” says Andreas Schaefer, TI general manager, ADAS and infotainment. “Semiconductor innovation delivers the reliability, precision, integration and affordability automakers need to increase vehicle autonomy across their entire fleet.”
REAL-TIME DECISION MAKING Lidar is a key technology for autonomous vehicles, providing a detailed 3D map of the driver’s surroundings to enable vehicles to detect and react to obstacles, traffic and road conditions. The first product
in TI’s new range is the LMH13000 – the industry’s first integrated high- speed laser driver to deliver an ultra- fast 800ps rise time, achieving up to 30% longer distance measurements than discrete solutions. Eliminating the need for large
capacitors or additional external circuitry, the device features integrated low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS), complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and transistor-transistor logic (TTL) control signals. According to TI, this integration supports an average 30% reduction in system costs while
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