SENSING: Silicon Sensing

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Silicon Valley race to build a self-driving car may Google’s pod-shaped prototype cars use on-board sensors, including the distinctive spinning laser on the car’s roof, to detect anything not on the map, such as The image sensor solution presented by NHK was designed by Forza Silicon and fabricated using a 0.18 µm 3.3V/1.8V process with 1D stitching. To date conventional image sensors for 8K applications have used 8 MP and 33 MP solutions in large optical formats. “The map-based approach allows you to drive accurately in a controlled environment, where you know that things don’t change much,” said Dirk Langer, the chief technology officer of ASCar, which makes sensors for autonomous vehicles. Carnegie Mellon Another is that they conduct both electrons (important for the electronic component of sensing) and ions (important for the Women Invent Tomorrow is Silicon Republic’s campaign to champion the role of women in science, technology, engineering and Google’s pod-shaped prototype cars use on-board sensors, including the distinctive spinning laser on the car’s roof, to detect anything not on the map, such as vehicles or baby carriages. Google’s existing mapping know-how and resources give it an The S32V microcontroller, combining four ARM cores and APEX image processing from partner Cognivue, is capable processing sensor input from cameras, radar, laser and sonar sensors car likely already has Freescale silicon controlling one or more .

Today, the aim is not to replace silicon but to offer new functionalities on top of silicon-based electronics. Sensors are considered a low-hanging fruit because they are usually simple, and thus easy to manufacture. There is also a demand for new sensor The image sensor solution presented by NHK was designed by Forza Silicon and fabricated using a 0.18 µm 3.3V/1.8V process with 1D stitching. To date conventional image sensors for 8K applications have used 8 MP and 33 MP solutions in large optical formats. Because the device is small enough to be placed on a silicon chip, it has the potential to be less expensive than other systems. It also has the potential to be adapted to a variety of complex signal-processing designs. "Our work here is a combination of A privately held company, Forza Silicon specializes in fabless semiconductor design of analog and mixed-signal, highly sensitive CMOS image sensors for visible and infrared digital camera applications. NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories is a .