Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Vayyar Imaging announced that Vayyar Imaging has selected the Cadence®Tensilica® Vision DSP for its advanced millimeter wave 3D imaging solution. A high-resolution sensor that tracks the environment around it in real time without a camera, Vayyar’s system on a chip (SoC) covers imaging and radar bands from 3GHz to 81GHz with 72 transmitters and 72 receivers in a single chip. This enables the sensor to differentiate between objects and people, determine location while mapping large areas, and create a 3D image of the environment with very high levels of accuracy. The Tensilica Vision DSP enables Vayyar to execute complex imaging algorithms and process back-end radar signals on the edge in real time, on-chip, without the need for an external CPU. Vayyar chose the Tensilica Vision DSP family for its high performance, vast instruction set, small core area, low power demands, and attractive performance/milliwatt (mW) profile compared to CPUs and GPUs. These unique attributes allow for running the full application layer inside the SoC, making complex imaging applications ultra-integrative and exceptionally cost-effective. Furthermore, using the Tensilica Vision DSP’s highly optimized compiler-profiler package and high-performance libraries, Vayyar is able to reduce development time while achieving desired performance, resulting in faster time to market. In addition, the DSP’s programmable engine helps future-proof the design, providing flexibility to Vayyar’s customers, and the Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language allows the addition of instructions to improve performance for customer-specific algorithms. The Tensilica Vision DSP family addresses a wide range of markets, offering high-performance and power-efficient DSPs to enable processing at the edge for rich, real-time experiences. The Vision P6 DSP is designed for general-purpose imaging and occasional-use AI /neural network inference for both fixed- and floating-point datatypes, offering 4X the peak performance compared to its predecessor, the Vision P5 DSP. The latest addition to the popular Vision DSP family, the Vision Q6 DSP offers 1.5X greater vision and AI performance compared to the Vision P6 DSP, and 1.25X better power efficiency at the Vision P6 DSP’s peak performance. Cadence also offers the Tensilica ConnX family of DSPs optimized for the full radar sensor-processing chain: from the front-end raw antenna data that requires complex arithmetic for FFTs and beamforming, to the back-end object detection and estimation that requires the precision that floating-point datatypes provide.