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AMD today announced that its adaptive computing technology is powering DENSO's next-generation light Detection and Ranging platform. The new platform will achieve a resolution increase of more than 20 times with very low latency, thereby improving the detection accuracy of pedestrians, vehicles, drivable areas, and more. Scheduled to begin shipping in 2025, the Diso lidar platform will use the AMD Xilinx Automotive Regulatory (XA) ZynqM UltraScale+" adaptive SoC and its functional safety development tool suite to achieve ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification. Denso is using the AMD XA Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) platform for its single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) lidar system, which generates the leading point cloud density level of any lidar system on the market today. Point cloud density reflects the number of laser foot points in a given area, similar to image resolution, where richer data ensures that critical decision details are captured. In general, SPAD-based systems are being widely adopted by automobile manufacturers due to the space savings. The highly flexible vehicle-scale Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC enables Denso's lidar system to reduce the size of current lidar implementations, allowing multiple lidars to work together to obtain front and side views of the vehicle. A single device can be used in multiple Denso lidar systems, including future generation systems, both reducing system costs and helping to prepare for future designs. While current production vehicles may only be equipped with a single forward-looking LIDAR, the next generation of vehicles will be equipped with multiple systems, including forward-looking, rearward-looking, and side-looking lidar. To go beyond assisted driving to fully autonomous driving, additional systems are needed. In addition, Denso lidar can be used for infrastructure monitoring, factory automation, and other non-autonomous driving applications. "We are excited to expand our collaboration with AMD as we launch our next-generation lidar system," said Eiichi Kurokawa, Director of Denso's Sensing Systems Business Unit. AMD's high-performance, highly scalable and programmable chips provide unique advantages to meet the extremely complex image processing requirements of our lidar architecture. "It is the flexibility and functionality of the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC platform and its ability to address stringent functional safety requirements that motivated us to work with AMD." Denso's SPAD lidar system can generate more than 3 million points per second at a frame rate of 10 frames per second. The mid-range lidar system uses a vehicle-grade Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC for system monitoring to help ensure temperature and overall system operation. Because the system uses Time-To-Digital Conversion instead of A/D converter, it can not only optimize the overall system size and cost, but also provide high performance and high-density data. "Denso has built a very accurate lidar system," said Mark Wadlington, Senior Vice President and general manager of AMD's Core Market Business unit. As lidar continues to evolve, new technical requirements arise, driving the need for higher sensitivity, density, and performance. "With AMD adaptive computing, we are helping to reduce system size and footprint while improving object detection accuracy by increasing resolution, all with very low latency." AMD in Automotive As the pace of innovation in the automotive industry continues to accelerate, so does the demand for high performance computing power, computation acceleration, and graphics technologies. With the industry's rich line of high-performance cpus, Gpus, FPgas, and adaptive SoCs, AMD is at the forefront of this inflection point. From in-vehicle infotainment systems to functional safety-critical applications such as advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and Internet of vehicles applications,AMD provides automotive manufacturers with a one-stop service of chip and software solutions.