Seeking to bolster its offerings in radar technology, Analog Devices, Inc. has acquired Symeo GmbH, a privately held company based in Munich, Germany, that specializes in radar hardware and software for emerging autonomous automotive and industrial applications.
Analog Devices will leverage Symeo’s signal processing algorithms to offer customers a radar platform with significant improvements in angular accuracy and resolution. Symeo’s RF and sensor technology enables real-time position detection and distance measurement. The company’s technology enables system integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to offer high precision radar solutions in industrial environments, and complements ADI’s expanding portfolio of market solutions in this space.
Symeo’s industrial high precision radar technology was originally developed within Siemens AG and subsequently spun-out as an independent entity in 2005 by the Siemens Technology Accelerator GmbH (STA).
“With this acquisition, ADI can now deliver more comprehensive and compelling radar solutions to customers,” says Chris Jacobs, Vice President of the Autonomous Transportation and Safety Business Unit, Analog Devices, in a statement. “Combining ADI’s industry-leading product portfolio with Symeo’s system and algorithm expertise will pave the way for higher performance radar solutions, enabling more accurate sensing in autonomous systems.”
The Symeo team will join ADI’s Autonomous Transportation and Safety (ATS) business unit and continue to be based in Munich.
