For safe, reliable driving automation on the highway, vehicles need higher resolution and longer range than what automotive sensors provide today. Radar offers the longest range of available sensors but with limited resolution. Resolution is constrained by the aperture of the radar sensor. Though it is possible to place a large sensor on a vehicle to obtain a large aperture, it is not practical. The conventional approach for improving radar resolution is to increase the number of antenna channels. Each channel, however, adds cost, increased size and hardware complexity. Zendar and NXP began working together to develop an alternate approach, one that would drastically improve resolution at a lower cost.