“

Autonomous Vehicles USA 2024 When resistance to the unfamiliar reaches the
threshold of a shock-zone and resistance to
buying sets in, the design in question has reached

”
its MAYA stage–Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable.

Raymond Loewy

Design
Acceptance
 Autonomous Vehicles USA 2024

Waymo recorded

7.1 million miles

and found their

autonomous vehicles
to be
57% less likely to be in a
police-reported crash
than human drivers.

Source: Waymo | Dec. 20, 2023

Source: 2024 AAA Consumer Survey
Source: 2024 AAA Consumer Survey
 Sensors, Compute & Software

CONSUMER
AUTONOMY IS
SHAPING THE FUTURE

New consumer autonomy

focus affects all pillars of the
ecosystem:

First-generation of autonomy Second-gen dominated by

▪ Sensors
investments dominated by focus on cost-effective ▪ Compute
robotaxis consumer autonomy ▪ Software

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The Major Gap in Radar

PERFORMANCE IS ALL FIRST-GEN RADAR INNOVATION

ABOUT EFFECTIVE Adding 100s of channels or building a large
physical antenna are not viable

ANTENNA SIZE

Software-based solutions are NEXT-GEN SOFTWARE BASED APPROACH

20x performance purely in software
the only viable approach

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 NETWORKED RADAR | NEW
Move Complexity to Software

NETWORKED RADAR
Antenna Antenna

RF Circuit RF Circuit

ENABLES DAR & ML Processor

Software

▪ Simple, reliable, lower cost

Radar hardware at point of SMART RADAR | OLD ▪ Higher resolution & performance
▪ Large antenna in software
diminishing returns Antenna Antenna
▪ Flexible and scalable

RF Circuit RF Circuit
Advanced signal processing
Processor Processor
algorithms in central ADAS
processor Firmware Firmware

▪ Limited performance, small antenna

▪ Frozen in time, can’t improve

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 Signal is fused coherently from
multiple radars on central compute

Enhanced Perception With

Software-Defined Radar
Zendar’s software-defined automotive
radar solution gives OEMs higher
resolution than imaging radar with less
cost and more vehicle design flexibility.

✓ 10x Greater Resolution

✓ Software-Driven Performance

✓ Small, Inexpensive Radars A satellite radar architecture

enables a modular system

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 DAR3 Fusion
Medium-Range Azimuth: 0.15°
Radar Sensor Elevation: 0.9º

70mm
DAR
Configurations 28mm
Vertical Offset

55mm
● DAR builds a coherent
antenna over multiple
240mm
single 1-chip radars Horizontal Offset

● This is a scalable
approach which allows
OEMs to customize
performance for
different trims.
 2m
Distributed
Aperture
Radar (DAR)
Azimuth
Resolution KPIs

Scenario
Resolving two corner
reflectors (10 dBsm)
laterally separated by 2m.

300
Meters

DAR Imaging Radar Single MRR

4-Chip Cascaded
Resolves 300m + Resolves at < 150m Resolves at < 80m
Pedestrian
Detection &
Localization
DAR maintains accuracy
to 300m and beyond.

Imaging Radar
DAR Single MRR
4-Chip Cascaded
● Zendar’s most conservative
DAR configuration (DAR2)
(left) compared to the leading
Tier1 LRR (right).

● Top-down view of the point

clouds out to 340m.

● Colored by height (-5, 5 m)

Link to video:
https://youtu.be/jt9l9iENbGw
Angular Resolution
Demonstration
Zendar’s most conservative
DAR configuration (DAR2),
used to capture the data in
this video, provides an angular
resolution spec of 0.24º.

Simply by mounting
more single-chip radars,
resolution can be
improved to rival Lidar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTZll6y_dzQ