Improving Driver Awareness & Safety

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) continue evolving to deliver not only improved passenger experience and comfort, but provide optimum and safety to the driver. Enabling better situational awareness and control to make driving easier and safer, ADAS technology using FPGA/SoCs and automotive sensors can be based upon systems local to the car, i.e. “vehicle resident systems” like vision/camera systems, sensor technology, or on smart, interconnected networks as in the case of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), or vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, jointly known as V2X systems.

V2X communications use on-board dedicated short-range radio communication devices to transmit safety related messages about a vehicle's speed, heading, brake status, vehicle size, etc. to other vehicles and receive the same information about other vehicles from these messages. Using multi-hops to transmit messages through other nodes, the V2X network can communicate over long distances. This longer detection distance and ability to “see” around corners or through other vehicles helps V2X-equipped vehicles perceive some threats sooner than sensors, cameras, or radar can, and warn their drivers accordingly.

In conjunction with V2I, the potential safety advantages of a wide-scale implementation are enormous. Potential V2I safety applications include:

• Red Light Violation Warning
• Curve Speed Warning
• Stop Sign Gap Assist
• Reduced Speed Zone Warning
• Spot Weather Information Warning
• Stop Sign Violation Warning
• Railroad Crossing Violation Warning
• Oversize Vehicle Warning

Microsemi’s portfolio is designed to help you deliver robust next-generation ADAS designs that meet stringent regulatory mandates and pave the way for autonomous vehicles.

Microsemi’s portfolio for ADAS applications includes:

• Automotive-grade FPGAs & SoCs
• Audio Processing for Early Hazard Identification- Timberwolf (ZL3808x)
• Sensor interface ICs for precision analog front end (AFE) custom products, MCU-based motion measurement and linear and angular applications
• Secure Platform
• Human Machine Interface (HMI)
• Video Processing

A long-time supplier to the aerospace, communications, defense/security and industrial markets, Microsemi is known for its high-reliability, high-performance solutions. Leveraging our technology and expertise, we can help drive innovation in your next-generation ADAS designs.