ADI Corporation today announced the acquisition of solid-state laser beam steering technology from Vescent Photonics, Inc., Golden, Colorado, USA. Vescent’s new non-mechanical laser beam steering technology can further enhance the performance of the Integrated Laser Radar 1 system and overcome the significant shortcomings of today’s large mechanical products in terms of reliability, size and cost. ADI has 20 years of automotive safety technology research and development experience, the acquisition of beam steering technology in one fell swoop to consolidate its automotive safety systems technology in the important position, more conducive to the development of next-generation ADAS and automatic driving applications. hmt351r7cfr8c-pb

“ADI’s solutions have saved many lives over the past two decades, from inertial MEMS sensors in airbags and electronic stability control applications2 to automotive radars at 24GHz and 77GHz,” said Chris Jacobs, general manager, ADI Automotive Safety. Now, with this innovative technology, it will be important to build a more compact and robust LIDAR system and equip it with all the new models in the world with this economical and practical safety feature. ” adum1200

At present, ADAS system must rely on camera, millimeter wave radar and laser radar and a series of sensor technology, can effectively provide forward collision warning, blind spot monitoring, pedestrian detection and automatic driving and other functions. The camera is widely used for target recognition, millimeter-wave radar system using radio frequency electromagnetic ranging. LIDAR uses laser beam ranging, and also identifies objects. Scanning laser radar systems can detect targets on or near roads, and can cover millimeter-wave radar systems and blind spots in the camera area.