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3 Sensors give electronic systems awareness of their environment, enabling amazing advances in autonomy. Specifically, Light Detection and Ranging, or LiDAR, uses pulsed lasers to determine the distance of objects quickly and accurately. Originally used for topographic surveying, today's small and light LiDAR systems give products vision, both depth perception and accurate positioning. In autonomous vehicles, LiDAR serves as the eye that provides a 360-degree view for navigation and collision avoidance. In smart infrastructure, LiDAR makes roads safer by monitoring pedestrian and vehicle traffic. In robotics and industrial systems, 3D vision increases safety, automation, and intelligence. LiDAR also reveals what is invisible to the naked eye, using different wavelengths to detect atmospheric pollutants. Key to LiDAR is accurate measurement of time of flight. Essential Analog products from Maxim Integrated (now part of Analog Devices) deliver the highest accuracy. Innovations include transimpedance amplifiers (TIA) with low noise and extremely high bandwidth, and high-speed comparators with very low propagation delay. High integration, more channels, and wafer scale packaging enable small solutions. Supervisor and protection devices create robust systems with enhanced reliability in rugged environments. We hope this publication provides you with inspiration as you explore solutions for adding LiDAR capabilities to your next system. Foreword Regards, Binay Kumar Bajaj Director of Business Management, Maxim Integrated I 516.840.0244 I 10409 Pacific Palisades Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89144-1221 I © 2021 Mighty Guides, Inc. www.mightyguides.com Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an award- winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on rapid new product introductions from its manufacturing partners for electronic design engineers and buyers. The global distributor's website, Mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 5 million products from over 800 manufacturers. Mouser offers 27 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 630,000 customers in more than 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot state-of-the-art facilities south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.mouser.com.