KD presents its innovations at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2025 NAGOYA

2025-07-21

KD has been present at the stand 74 of Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (HHT) at the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2025 NAGOYA, presenting the first IEEE 802.3cz-compliant multigigabit vision system solution. In addition, this is also the first implementation of our 10GBASE-AU KD7251 optical transceiver into an optical automotive multigigabit camera, LI-VENUS-ISX031-BASE-AU, from Leopard Imaging. Corning Incorporated designed and developed a hybrid cable and connector system utilizing Corning’s automotive grade cables and connectors. By upgrading the existing wide angle camera system from a traditional GMSL2 copper interface to an optical fiber-based 10GBASE-AU link that is compliant with IEEE 802.3cz, the new system delivers scalable data communications up to 10 Gb/s. This provides a future-enabling solution to meet the challenging network requirements of automotive applications such as autonomous driving, assisted driving (ADAS), digital video recording, and machine vision.

The theme of the fair has been focused on next-generation automotive technologies, including electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving, vehicle connectivity (V2X), automotive semiconductors, ADAS, and hydrogen energy solutions. Most visitors were automotive OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, as well as professionals from the electronics, semiconductor, communications, and materials industries.

Sharing the booth with HHT was a positive experience because we were able to collaborate firsthand with them. Our demo received very positive feedback and was visited by many attendees interested in our technology. For all these reasons, we would like to thank the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan for organizing this valuable event and to Hitachi High-Tech for inviting us to showcase our demos at their booth.

About KD

KD is a Spanish semiconductor company leading the market for high-speed data transmission through optical fiber in challenging environments. For 15 years, the company has been reinventing the way optical communications are made to make them robust and affordable enough for the automotive, consumer and industrial markets