Collaboration with inaugural partners - frog and IXDS - enables
development across critical IoT application areas
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rambus
Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced its Partners-in-Open-Development
(POD) program in collaboration with design firms frog
and IXDS
to promote the adoption of its lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology.
The Rambus
LSS technology represents a fundamentally new approach to sensing
that shifts the function of traditional optics to computation,
eliminating the need for expensive lenses. By replacing traditional
sensor refraction optics with lensless diffraction and computation, LSS
technology enables ultra-miniature form-factor and low-power design,
ideal for a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Rambus lensless smart sensor (LSS) test chip with integrated sensor and optical grating (Photo: Business Wire)
"Our work with lensless smart sensors through the POD program is helping
to pave the way for innovations that are sure to inspire and become
ubiquitous throughout our lives," said Andrew Zimmerman, president of frog.
"The opportunity to partner with Rambus, through our R&D platform frogLabsTM
and other organizations, to build out the burgeoning sensor ecosystem
means we are helping to propel solutions that can be adopted much more
quickly."
"Opening its innovative lensless smart technology to the developer
community enables Rambus to promote what promises to be a robust,
intelligent ecosystem around this new approach to sensing and imaging,"
said Dr. Reto Wettach, founder and design director with IXDS. "We are
proud to be among the inaugural POD partners and look forward to being
among the first contributors to identify and expand upon existing
IoT-based applications for this technology."
The Rambus lensless smart sensor technology consists of spiral grating
diffractive optics and computational algorithms that enable reduced
computation times and superior design flexibility, delivering more data
and improved accuracy versus current sensors comparable in size, power
and cost. The combination of spiral grating diffractive optics and
computational algorithms provide high fidelity output for greater
accuracy and more sophisticated capabilities in the areas of gesture
recognition, depth and range tracking, point finding and advanced object
recognition.
"With the need for smart sensors growing, our engineers have invented
novel ways to become the eyes of the IoT," said Gary Bronner, vice
president of Rambus Labs. "Our Partners-in-Open-Development provides a
great opportunity for innovators to develop technology for a smarter
world. With this program, we encourage developers across the globe to
join in to create new products that introduce real-world IoT
applications that will touch so many parts of our lives. This is the
first step toward expanding the accessibility of an ecosystem that will
foster a new generation of innovation."
As part of the POD program, Rambus has identified four key verticals to
accelerate and amplify discovery of smart applications, which include
cities, transportation, manufacturing and medical. To learn more about
Rambus, lensless smart sensors and the Partners-in-Open-Development
program, visit rambus.com/smartsensors.
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