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WHAT WILL BE THE IN-VEHICLE
CONNECTIVITY GOLD STANDARD
FOR ADAS AND AUTONOMOUS
DRIVING?
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Valens at a Glance
300
Employees
2006
Established
NYSE:VLN
Trading on the
New York Stock
Exchange
HQ in Israel
with global
presence
IL
High-Performance Connectivity
• Superior technology for high-speed, long-distance,
error-free links.
• Versatile technology providing the most optimized
connectivity solution for any application.
• Developer of HDBaseT standard with thousands of
HDBaseT-enabled products; tens of millions of chips
delivered.
Leader in Audio-Video Market
• Reducing harness complexity, weight, and total
connectivity cost.
• First to market with MIPI A-PHY-compliant
chipsets. On the road in vehicles around the
world.
Innovator in Automotive
Driving Industry Standards
• Key contributor to technology standardization in
various industries.
~100
Patent
portfolio
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The automotive
industry needs a
standardized
solution that can
guarantee low-
latency, error-free,
high-speed
communications in
the vehicle
ADAS and AD applications are at risk of
compromising passenger safety
Legacy automotive technologies
no longer scalable
Link quality decreasing
Number of cables and
electronics growing,
with higher current flows
EMI (electromagnetic
interferences) being magnified
Data rate rising
exponentially
Cable length increasing
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4.
Autonomous
Driving
There is a “Sensor Explosion” in the
Automotive Industry
Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Camera
Radar
Lidar
Display
Total
CAMERA
RADAR
LIDAR
LIDAR
RADAR
LIDAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
RADAR
CAMERA
CAMERA
CAMERA
Low Latency
High Speed Long Reach
Prerequisites for ADAS connectivity
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A-PHY: From Proprietary to Standard
A Transformative, Disruptive Technology
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Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Proprietary Single-Source Bridge Extension
No inter-operability between vendors
CSI-2
ECU
SOC
A-PHY Standard Bridge Extension
Robust standard
CSI-2 CSI-2
ECU
SOC
Integrated A-PHY Standard Extension
Size optimized, robust standard
CSI-2
ECU
SOC
CSI-2

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Valens is the First in the Industry with
A-PHY-Compliant Chipsets
MIPI A-PHY DRIVERS
› Best-in-class EMC performance
› Clear roadmap to ultra-high bandwidth
› Simple architecture
› End-to-end security
› Seamless integration with CSI-2 and
DSI-2 interfaces
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› A-PHY technology is the most resilient for ultra-
high-speed links with the best noise immunity
• Packet Error Rate (PER) of 10-19
› DSP-managed physical layer
• Optimal utilization of wire channel through
PAM signaling
• Narrowband Interference Cancellation (NBIC)
with PHY-Level Retransmission Scheme (RTS)
• Forward-looking solution, clear roadmap for
higher throughput (>48Gbps)
Industry-best
EMI resilience
Best-in-class EMC performance
for multi-gigabit link speeds
High-Level
PAM
(up to PAM16)
Reduces the
symbol rate for
multi-gigabit link
bandwidths, which
lowers the signal
losses in the cable
Dynamic
Modulation Local
Retransmission
Ultra-fast PHY-level
retransmission
mechanism for
correction of
packet errors
Just-in-Time
Noise
Cancellation
Fast adaptive noise
cancellation to
remove the effects
of automotive
EMI/EMC noises
Valens chipsets can operate
over UTP cabling
2-4Gbps 2-8Gbps

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MIPI Liaisons:
ADOPTED BY IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
ADOPTING DP and eDP ADAPTATION LAYER FOR A-PHY
Automotive Ecosystem
COMPANIES CONTRIBUTING TO MIPI A-PHY DEVELOPMENT

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Automotive Ecosystem
“MIPI A-PHY gives us the first standardized solution for zero latency, error-free,
multi-gig connectivity in the harsh electromagnetic in-car environment... We are also
optimistic about Valens’ unique ability to leverage the low-cost UTP channels for our
connectivity infrastructure.”
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“We acknowledge the momentum that the MIPI A-PHY standard is gaining in the industry…
We’re thrilled to partner with Valens, the leading supplier of A-PHY-compliant chipsets.”
Bob Zhang, General Manager
“It is a major step that the automotive industry can now work around a connectivity
standard, which is built from the ground up to deal with the specific challenges in the car
while bringing significant cost savings to the ecosystem as a whole. We look forward to
taking our place in this impressive new development around MIPI A-PHY.”
Boyd Fowler, Chief Technology Officer at OMNIVISION

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Automotive Ecosystem
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“At Sumitomo Electric, we view A-PHY as the connectivity infrastructure underlying the cars
of tomorrow, so it was important for us to make sure our cables meet this standard’s channel
requirements.”
Hiroki Hirai, Sumitomo Electric General Manager of CAS-EV Development Promotion Division
“MIPI A-PHY solves a real bottleneck for sensor-ECU connectivity, which is why we're in
the process of evaluating the technology right now. We're highly expecting that we'll be
able to recommend this standard to our community of Japanese OEMs and Tier 1s in the
near future.”
“The automotive market is racing towards standardization, and A-PHY is far and away the
leading connectivity solution… Valens [is] an early pioneer of A-PHY technology.”
Insoo Ryu, VP, Head of the Automotive Components & Electronics Business

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Automotive Ecosystem
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“We’ve seen strong demand for MIPI A-PHY-based connectivity solutions… The new
connectivity standard offers a number of key technological breakthroughs – including in
bandwidth, link distance, and resilience to Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI).”
Bill Pu, CEO at Leopard Imaging
“As the most cutting-edge high-speed connectivity technology in the automotive industry,
MIPI A-PHY is well positioned for large-scale integration in cars around the world. With our
combination of advanced process technology and geographically diverse capacity, we are
confident that we will be able to address the strong market interest in MIPI A-PHY solutions.”
Dr. Randhir Thakur, President of Intel Foundry Services
At Keysight, we recognize that it is critical to address the growing market demands for high-
speed digital interfaces for next-generation in-vehicle networks… This new solution from
Keysight represents yet another way we are supporting the evolution and standardization of
technologies for our automotive customers.”
Thomas Goetzl, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s Automotive and Energy Solutions business unit

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Automotive Ecosystem
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“We at Mobileye are working closely with Valens to make sure our
next-generation platforms will comply with the MIPI A-PHY architecture.“
Amnon Shashua, Founder & CEO
“We’re happy to be early adopters of this automotive connectivity standard. Valens
is in a leading position with A-PHY, which is why it is so important for us to start
this collaboration.”
Kenji Onishi, General Manager, Automotive Business Department
“At Denso, we take pride in assembling the most cutting-edge technologies for the
market, and we certainly consider A-PHY to be among them. We're now in the process
of evaluating A-PHY-compliant chipsets and preparing to incorporate the technology
into our products so that we can serve the needs of OEMs.”

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• Very active in relevant MIPI working groups, specifically the security specs
(CSE)
• Designing A-PHY TX to be integrated into their future automotive sensor
• Recently completed successful interoperability of Sony’s A-PHY test chip
against Valens RX
VA7044
Sony A-PHY
Test Chip
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“We’re happy to be early adopters of this automotive connectivity standard. Valens is in a leading position with A-PHY, which is
why it is so important for us to start this collaboration.”
Kenji Onishi, General Manager, Automotive Business Department
Valens-Sony A-PHY Interoperability Press Release
 Completed

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Surround view:
Cost Savings Confirmed by 3rd
Party Benchmarking Firm
TOTAL SYSTEM
COST
15%
› 3rd-party system cost analysis done for a surround
view application (4 cameras).
› Showed significant savings when moving from
existing solution, which require shielded
cables/connectors, to Valens’ unshielded solution.
Full report by A2MAC1 available on request
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High-speed 8Gbps links for remote sensor
connectivity
› UTP for speeds up to 4Gbps per link
› SDP, Coax for speeds up to 8Gbps per link
› Tunneling of CSI-2, GPIO, SPI, I2C
› DSI to CSI connectivity (SoC-to-SoC)
› Extremely low packet error rate <1e-19
The VA7000 Chipset Family
Input: 4 x 8Gbps A-PHY,
1 x CSI-2
Output: 2 x CSI-2
VA7044
Deserializer
VA7044
Input: 1 x CSI-2
Output: 1 x 8Gbps A-PHY
VA7031
Serializer
VA7031
Input: 2 x 8Gbps A-PHY,
1 x CSI-2
Output: 2 x CSI-2
VA7042
Deserializer
VA7042
Input: 1 x CSI-2
Output: 1 x 4Gbps A-PHY
VA7021
Serializer
VA7021

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Wrapping
Up
› The automotive industry requires a standardized
high-speed solution for ADAS applications
› The Valens VA7000 chipsets are the first A-PHY
compliant solutions to hit the market
› There is a growing ecosystem of suppliers emerging
to back MIPI A-PHY deployment
› MIPI A-PHY-based chipsets offer benefits to OEMs,
including reductions to total system cost
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A-PHY

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