DENSO Corporation, one of the giants in the adaptive computing technology sector that will drive the next generation LiDAR platformhas chosen the AMD Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq UltraScale+ SoC, and its set of development tools, to give life to the hardware on which said platform will be based.
We are talking about a huge advance that needs to be contextualized. The next generation LiDAR platform will multiply by twenty the resolution of the previousit will have a very low latency, which will improve response times when detecting various obstacles, including pedestrians and objects, it can be integrated into systems facing both forwards and backwards and to the sides, and it will be able to generate more than three million points per second with a rate of 10 frames per second.
This DENSO system is known as Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) LiDAR, and as we have said, it will mount the AMD Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq UltraScale+ SoC. This system is capable of generating a huge density of points maintaining, as we anticipated, a high resolution of the image, and this is key to achieving data rich in details that allow correct decision-making at all times.
Also note that time-to-digital conversion is used instead of analog-to-digital converters, allowing the size and overall costs of the system to be optimized while still offering high data density and a high level of performance. The Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) LiDAR is expected to launch in 2025. Mark Wadlington, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Central Markets group at AMD, commented:
“DENSO has developed a LiDAR system exceptionally accurate. With the continuous evolution of LiDAR, there are new technological requirements that are pressing to improve sensitivity, density and performance. Through AMD’s adaptive computing technology, we help enable system size and footprint reduction, while improving resolution, for higher object detection accuracy, all with very low latency.”
The AMD Xilinx Automotive (XA) Zynq UltraScale+ SoC can be configured with a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, two Cortex-R5F cores, a subsystem of programmable logic in 16 nm FinFET+ and an ARM Mali 400 MP2 GPU. Its integration into LiDAR Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) is excellent news for AMD, as it allows it to get a little deeper into the world of smart cars.
