TechInsights Teardown: Huawei 96 Line lidar

Lidar has become an important part of the modern automotive vehicles as technology has advanced to include as standard options advanced automotive assistance systems (ADAS).

ADAS is quickly being integrated into numerous vehicles, electric or otherwise, for added safety functions and when distracted driving becomes a problem. Lidar is the center of many of these ADAS functions as the sensor relays information to the car to make decisions in case the driver cannot.

Lidar is also being purported as part of the technology that will allow for automated driving functions to eventually be launched in vehicles. Huawei 96 Line lidar has been developed for Chinese automotive OEMs to add ADAS and other functions to next-generation vehicles.

The system is powered by Lattice Semiconductor’s FPGA and includes a time-of-flight rotating mirror and 8K mobile camera.

The following is a partial deep dive into Huawei’s 96 Line lidar conducted by TechInsights.

Summary points

1 GB DDR4 SDRAM

ToF rotating mirror

8K UHD mobile camera

FPGA

Price: $3,800

Released: December 2020

Availability: China

Target market: Automotive

The main board of the Huawei 96 Line lidar has the Lattice Semiconductor FPGA and main memory of the sensor device. Source: TechInsights

Main board

The main board is the brains of the lidar system with the electronic components on the board including:

• Lattice Semiconductor’s FPGA
• Macronix’s serial flash memory
• ISSI’s DDR4 SDRAM memory
• HiSilicon’s 8K UHD mobile camera SoC
• RichTek’s 8- and 3-amp step-down DC-DC converter
• Nexperia’s dual power MOSFET
• Infineon’s step-up DC-DC converter
• Toshiba’s power MOSFET

(Learn more about memory chips on Globalspec.com)

The receiver board contains the electronic components needed for connectivity on the Huawei 96 Line system. Source: TechInsights

Receiver board

The receiver board contains electronic components used for connectivity. It includes the Sony SPAD depth sensor, Nexperia’s dual inverter and TI’s MOSFET driver.

(Learn more about discrete components on Globalspec.com)

The motor board has sensors and other electronic components for the motor functions inside the Huawei 96 Line lidar. Source: TechInsights

Motor board

The motor board contains the optical and electronic components for operation of the motor parts on board the Huawei 96 Line lidar system. These include:

• Sensirion’s digital temperature sensor
• ST Microelectronics’ serial EEPROM memory and LDO regulator
• IC-Haus’ optical encoder

(Learn more about sensor chips on Globalspec.com)

Some of the electronic components found inside the lidar system from Huawei. Source: TechInsights

Major components

• $76.36 — Mirror (Qty: 4)
• $58.23 — IR glass filter with heater (Qty: 1)
• $35.71 — Bottom enclosure (Qty: 1)
• $30.46 — 8K UHD mobile camera SoC — HiSilicon (Qty: 1)
• $15.69 — Top enclosure
• $12.61 — FPGA — Lattice Semiconductor (Qty: 2)
• $10.98 — 14-layer conventional FR4/HF (Qty: 1)
• $8.56 — Glass filter (Qty: 2)
• $8.12 — Main board internal cover (Qty: 1)
• $8.03 — Optics mount (Qty: 1)