In addition, Valens announced that it is the first company in the industry to send chips that support the MIPI A-PHY standard to leading manufacturers in the automotive industry.
Valens Semiconductor (VLN: NYSE), a leading provider of high-speed communications chips for the automotive and audio-video industries, and Stoneridge (SRI: NYSE), a leading manufacturer of advanced electronic systems for vehicles and trucks, today unveiled their collaboration. A unique video transmission solution for truck safety systems, which will address one of the critical safety issues in trucks.
Truck drivers today face significant visibility limitations. This is due to the lack of communication technologies that are able to support video transmission of sufficient quality, due to the challenges arising from the truck structure and the length of the required cabling.
Starting in 2020, Valens and Stoneridge have been working on developing a unique technological solution that will enable high-quality, zero-latency video transmission over extremely long distances, while ensuring broadcast quality and error-free.
“Wellness’ solution, together with Stoneridge’s cameras, opens the door to integrating new technologies and capabilities into our products that have not been possible before. These solutions will greatly improve the safety of trucks, and reduce the operating costs of truck fleets, ”says John de Gaynor, President and CEO of Stoneridge.
“The solution we are working on, based on the Valencia VA6000 chip series, will enable a safer driving experience for truck drivers around the world using Stoneridge systems,” said Gideon Ben-Zvi, CEO of Valence Semiconductor. “With our unique technology, we are contributing to making roads safer, both for truck drivers and the people around them.”
At the same time, Valens also announced last week that it has begun shipping chipsets from the new VA7000 series, which is the next generation of the company’s automotive products. The components were sent to more than 25 customers and industry partners, including four leading vehicle manufacturers, and more than ten Tier-1 companies, for testing and the start of design processes based on the new component. Wellness is the first company in the market to offer products that support the MIPI A-PHY standard for fast and long-term video communication in the vehicle’s interior environment, a fact that gives it a significant competitive advantage in this market.
Since the A-PHY standard for high-speed video transmission in the vehicle was announced by the MIPI standards organization in September 2020, it continues to gain significant momentum in the industry. In 2021 the IEEE standard adopted it as well, and at the same time large automotive companies are working on its implementation in solutions designed to be their next generation products.
The performance of VA7000 chips will allow automakers to advance the capabilities of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and take another step on the road to future software-based vehicles (Software Defined Vehicles).