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Radar Market Outlook Mats Carlsson CTO Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 1 Why radar? Competing non-contact technologies Vision / cameras Time of flight Stereoscopic Lasers Ultrasound Radar offers robust and cost

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Radar Market Outlook

Mats Carlsson CTO

Sivers IMA Partner Event - June 2017 1

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Why radar?

  • Competing non-contact technologies

– Vision / cameras

  • Time of flight
  • Stereoscopic

– Lasers – Ultrasound

  • Radar offers robust and cost efficient monitoring
  • f distance and/or speed

– Does not require a clear field of view or line of sight – Robust and accurate measurement results – New highly integrated solutions reduces cost

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Radar Market Outlook

  • The radar market is expected to grow in the

coming years

  • Many new use cases and applications drives the

growth

– Internet of Things – Smart homes, cities, factories

  • Trends / technologies

– Packaged components – Ever higher levels of integration – SRD and ISM regulations allow for use of radar in many applications, and trend is to loosen regulations

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Example of radar use cases

  • Various surveillance applications

– Larger acceptance due to less integrity problems compared with camera surveillance – Does not require light or clear view

  • Industrial Level gauging
  • Distance control, industrial, automotive
  • Traffic Monitoring
  • Agriculture, e.g. lettuce harvesting
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Robots (industrial and commercial)
  • Smart homes
  • Temperature control
  • Smart-lighting
  • Door-openers
  • Ground measurements (including height) for drones
  • Truck safety

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Opportunities and challenges

  • Opportunities

– Increasing demand for sensor solutions – Higher integration level offers lower cost and smaller form factor

  • Challenges

– Fragmented market with many small volume customers

  • Want custom products, but don’t want to pay NRE for

customization

– Limited radar know-how on the market

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24GHz Radar Market

  • ISM Band
  • Large, potential, untapped market
  • Most popular requested frequency from customer

leads

  • Existing competitors miss the mark on certain points

– FMCW is missing in some kits, e.g. in the kit from Infineon – Limited antenna flexibility – Not designed for customization (strictly chip evaluation) – Price is high

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EVK02401/00 Concept

  • Takes advantage of low-cost

Infineon chips and ARM MCUs

  • Simplify development cost and

time for customers

  • Create reference platform that

meets needs of most customer requests

  • Reduce complexity, but fill gaps

found in other radar sensors / kits

– FMCW supported – Internal/external antenna – Reference platform for custom products – Suitable for advanced and basic users

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Next generation radar products and technology – advanced information

  • Sivers IMA is currently architecting a new highly

integrated mm-wave based radar solution for imaging applications

– Targeting to operate in the 60GHz license free band

  • Higher integration level reduces cost

– Integrated ADC – Beamforming and on chip signal processing – Antennas are tightly designed with the Transceiver chip

  • Customers could influence the specifications of the

Sivers IMA 60GHz radar solution

  • Sivers IMA´s telecom beamforming and mm-wave

design expertise is utilized

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Sivers IMA Technology and Market Differentiators

  • Technology focus

– Mm-wave RFIC development – Beam forming – Patch antenna

  • Market differentiators

– High performance with 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS technology – Robust designs suitable for infrastructure equipment – High integration level – Multi-channel RX and TX for beamforming – RFIC and patch antennas are co-developed

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What is mm-wave and what is it used for?

  • Mm-wave frequencies are defined as the frequencies

between 30-300GHz

– Often 28GHz for 5G applications is included in mm-wave

  • 28 and 39GHz are considered for 5G applications
  • 57-71 GHz, is often referred to as V-band

– License free in many regions – Telecom and radar applications

  • 71-76, 81-86, 76-77, 77-81 GHz, is often referred to as E-

band

– Widely used in telecom equipment (data links) – Automotive radar applications

  • Short wavelength enables small antennas with focused

beams

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Beam Forming

  • Phase and amplitude of the

transmitted/received energy is controlled, focus can be achieved in certain directions

  • Enables higher sensitivity and

effective output power

  • Benefits in telecom

– Improved range – Point to multipoint applications can be supported – Self aligning links – Requirement in the 802.11ad standard

  • Very useful for imaging radar

solutions

– Higher resolution and accuracy

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Patch Antennas

  • Low cost
  • Small form factor
  • Easy to customize with

low tooling cost (new PCB design, no hard tooling)

  • Proven in automotive

radar applications

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Sivers IMA WiGig solution for infrastructure equipment

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x3

RF_IN1 RX_BBQ VCO_OUT VCO_IN AGC SPI MOSI MISO SCLK CSN Temp detect Control LDO VCC Cali- bration ADC VDDIO CLK GPIO[7:0] Register map MODE[1:0] Rst F RF_IN2 F RF_IN16 F RX_BBI

Synth

REF_CLK RF_OUT1 F RF_OUT2 F RF_OUT16 F TX_BBQ TX_BBI RF GAIN BB GAIN

TRX BF/01

  • Beamforming Transceiver with 16

RX + 16 TX channels

– +/-45 degrees Azimuth coverage – Excellent EVM – EIRP = +43dBm

  • IEEE 802.11ad compliant covering

57-66GHz

– Data rate 4.62Gbps with 16QAM modulation

  • Easy integration with the

Rapidwave digital Modem from IDT (RWM6050) over analog IQ interface

  • Design in SiGe BiCMOS packaged

in an e-WLB package

– Currently geared for infrastructure applications

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Key features of Sivers IMA WiGig solution

  • Focus on system cost and integration level

– Few voltage domains

  • 3.3V and integrated LDO:s for the analog blocks
  • 1.8V digital i/o supply voltage to fit with BWT i/o voltage (no external level shifters)

– Baseband interface without external components

  • Robust performance

– Against interferers – Excellent EVM – Autonomous and fast settling AGC – Low group delay variation

  • Autonomous calibration

– IQ calibration (with support from baseband) – DC offset – LO leakage

  • BIST and ATE support
  • Wide band solution

– Covers the entire 802.11ad band (57-66GHz) and the extended band (66-71GHz)

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Draft architecture of Sivers IMA´s 60GHz radar imaging solution

  • Sivers IMA´s WiGig RFIC is

used as starting point

  • Digital beamforming RX

architecture for flexible signal processing

  • High integration level for low

cost

  • Cm resolution possible
  • Advanced product

information, i.e. changes might be applied

  • Tentative schedule: ES in

2H 2018

  • Lead customers can influence

the architecture

Chirp Control

DSP/ FFT PA_1 LNA_1 LNA_2 SPI MOSI MISO SCLK CSN Temp detect Beam- book LDO VCC Cali- bration ADC VDDIO Register map Rst Ref Clk Data

ADC

Data Serializer

ADC ADC

LNA_6 PA_2

Synth

F F

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Questions?

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