加特兰举办首届“工业日”活动
9月1日，加特兰开展首届“工业日”活动，邀请多家工业客户到场，就如何使用加特兰工规级芯片进行产品开发，做了深入的技术分享与交流。
加特兰工规级毫米波雷达SoC芯片主要包含Rhine和Rhine-Mini系列，集成了高度可配置的FMCW波形发生器、高速ADC、雷达信号处理基带、CPU以及丰富的外设接口。高集成度的工规SoC芯片降低了雷达系统开发的门槛，客户也能快速导入市场。
此外，加特兰工规级芯片也包含了采用AiP（封装集成片上天线）封装形式的芯片，帮助客户省去天线开发与迭代的投入，避免高频板材的使用，带来了诸多优势：雷达模组尺寸更小、成本更低、开发更容易。
加特兰工规级芯片集众多优点于一身，可实现低成本的无感精准探测，同时又不会侵犯用户的个人隐私，目前已广泛应用于工业市场的多个领域，包括智能家居、养老监护等智能生活应用，智能交通系统、智能道闸系统、安防监控、人体安检等智慧城市应用，机器人避障、无人机避障、液位检测等工业自动化应用，促进了毫米波雷达在工业市场的进一步普及。
本届工业日，加特兰研发团队的讲师们主要围绕Rhine-Mini芯片，详细介绍和分享了编译环境搭建、SDK架构、调试、数据采集、Baseband雷达基带信号处理模块、跟踪算法等八个课题方面的内容。
Rhine-Mini是加特兰2021年推出的芯片系列之一，具备“Mini, but Mighty（迷你尺寸、超群表现）”的特点。相较于Alps/Rhine系列，尺寸缩减40%，典型工作功耗仅0.8 W，主芯片成本节约超20%，处理器由单核升级为双核，功能灵活且性能卓越。这些特点恰好满足了工业市场，尤其是新兴应用，对雷达芯片在成本、尺寸和性能方面的需求。
加特兰工业日活动还设置了实机操作环节，客户在现场即可进行开发环境搭建和调试的操作。同时，加特兰FAE工程师也提供了悉心指导，帮助客户解答疑惑，深化技术理解。
一直以来，加特兰都十分重视与客户的沟通与交流，也希望通过技术日活动为客户提供更多便利和帮助，正如加特兰工业市场总监吴翔在会上所说，“加特兰致力于服务好每一位工业客户，共同努力探索毫米波雷达新兴应用，实现‘让毫米波服务每个人’的公司使命”。
China College IC Competition Summit: CMOS and AiP Pave the Way for Wide Adoption of mmWave Radar
On the morning of 19th July, the award ceremony of the Sixth China College IC Competition “Calterah Cup” of North China Division and the IC Innovation Transformation Summit took place in Beijing. As the title sponsor for the North China competition, Calterah attended the award ceremony and shared insights into mmWave radar development at the summit.
The competition attracted more than 1000 students from universities in North China and 149 teams entered the final. After the oral defense session, the teams to be awarded were determined and then announced in the award ceremony. Then followed the IC Innovation Transformation Summit, which was live streamed and attracted scores of views from students and IC industry insiders.
As a key sensor to autonomous driving, mmWave radar has evolved rapidly. In a speech delivered at the summit, Calterah’s CEO Dr. Chen Jiashu reviewed mmWave IC process evolution from GaAs to SiGe, and then to the current CMOS. CMOS has effectively simplified the system design of mmWave radar modules, significantly improved the integration level of chips, and lowered module-level costs and power consumption. Therefore, it has paved the way for the wide application of mmWave radar.
Dr. Chen also pointed out two major trends of auto mmWave radar development in recent years, the emergence of lower-power and more compact radar and the 4D imaging technology.
The AiP (Antenna-in-Package) technology helps create more compact and lower-cost mmWave SoCs and shortens the R&D and production cycles. AiP mmWave radar ICs can also meet the requirements of emerging auto applications and enable autonomous driving functions such as APA (Automatic Parking Assist), AVP (Automated Valet Parking), power door collision avoidance, ICS (In-Cabin Sensing), etc., advancing a broader adoption of mmWave radar.
The promising 4D imaging radar technology is capable to provide highly accurate azimuth-elevation information with better angular resolution and dense and quality 4D point clouds, hence it can work as a standalone sensor to offer true redundancy. The up-coming mmWave SoC products for 4D image radar from Calterah will well satisfy the requirements of Level 3 and higher autonomous driving systems.
As a key driver of the IC industry, innovation is the consistent pursuit to achieve technological breakthroughs and self-sufficiency, which is also embodied in Calterah’s the core values, guiding Calterah to lead technological revolutions of mmWave radar ICs and realize its mission of “Make mmWave Serve Everyone”.
集创赛高峰论坛——CMOS和AiP技术助力毫米波雷达普及
7月19日上午，第六届集创赛“加特兰杯”华北分赛区决赛颁奖典礼暨集成电路创新成果转化高峰论坛在北京顺利举行。加特兰作为华北赛区冠名企业出席了决赛颁奖典礼，并在集成电路创新成果转化高峰论坛上分享了有关毫米波雷达发展的洞见。
本届集创赛华北分赛区参赛学生超1000人，有149支队伍脱颖而出，成功进入决赛。经过激烈的答辩角逐，决赛最终评选出获奖队伍，并进行了颁奖仪式。随后，集成电路创新成果转化高峰论坛开启。与此同时，活动通过线上平台进行直播，吸引了众多学生与从业人士。
作为智能驾驶的核心传感器，毫米波雷达近年来发展飞速。在高峰论坛演讲中，加特兰CEO陈嘉澍博士回顾了毫米波雷达芯片从砷化镓、锗硅到CMOS工艺的发展历史。CMOS工艺因为有效简化了雷达模块的系统设计，大幅提高了芯片集成度以及降低了系统成本与功耗，使得毫米波雷达大规模普及成为可能。
陈博士表示，近年来车载毫米波雷达的发展有两大趋势：低功耗小型化和4D成像。
封装集成天线（Antenna in Package, AiP）技术帮助芯片实现小尺寸、低成本，缩短了研发与生产周期，可满足新兴汽车应用对毫米波雷达芯片的要求，实现自动泊车辅助（APA）、自动代客泊车（AVP）、电动门自动避障、舱内检测（ICS）等智能驾驶应用，从而进一步推动毫米波雷达的普及。
4D成像雷达由于能够提供精确的俯仰角信息、更优的角度分辨率、以及密集的高质量的4D点云，可以作为独立的传感器提供真正的信息冗余。加特兰即将推出的4D成像毫米波芯片产品，将更好地满足L3及以上级别智能驾驶系统对车载毫米波雷达的需求。
创新是集成电路产业的核心推动力。当前行业发展日新月异，无论是前沿技术的开拓，还是关键环节的自主可控，都需要今天的集成电路人不断创新。在集成电路行业这片“芯成大海”，莘莘学子正“青春启航”。而“突破自我，勇于创新”更是加特兰的核心价值观，引领加特兰持续推进毫米波雷达芯片的技术变革，实现“让毫米波服务每个人”的使命。
Calterah Delivers IWPC Keynote Speech to Introduce the Technology and Emerging Applications of Antenna in Package (AiP)
In a global webinar held by International Wireless Industry Consortium (IWPC) at 11:00 am EST on February 23, Calterah delivered a keynote speech, “AiP Devices Enable Emerging Applications for the Automotive Market”.
Worldwide, over 300 people from about 150 enterprises and institutions including well-known auto OEMs, top Tier-1 auto parts suppliers such as Aptiv, Bosch, and Continental, and companies in the upstream IC supply chain registered and attended the webinar to gain insights on AiP and discuss with Calterah the technology and its applications and development in emerging auto fields.
In their keynote speech, Dr. Dian Wang, Calterah’s Director of EM and Manufacturing Technology introduced the advantages of AiP technology and its development in Calterah, and Product Marketing Manager Zheng Wang shed light on the challenges to existing auto radar solutions and how AiP devices enable emerging applications for the auto market.
According to Dr. Wang, mmWave radar modules enabled by AiP ICs, compared to traditional ones, are more competitive, with higher integration level, smaller size, greater consistency and accuracy in antenna manufacturing, no external connection or radiation loss, less module-level design efforts and lower cost.
In terms of antenna performances, Calterah allows high redundancy for impedance bandwidth and gain in its AiP antenna design. For example, a radar module enabled by a Calterah 4T4R AiP mmWave IC can provide a 45 m detection range for targets of 10 m2 RCS within a 90° FOV and support 4D detection under ultra-short-range radar (USRR) mode. And under short-range radar (SRR) mode, such a module can reach 80 m in detection range for targets of the same RCS within a 90° FOV and offer analog TX beamforming in the vertical direction by utilizing internal phase shifters.
As for the advantages of AiP in auto radar applications, Zheng elaborated on two emerging applications, autonomous parking assistance (APA) and child presence detection (CPD).
Traditional ultrasonic radar solutions applied in the APA scenario have several weaknesses, including short detection range, long measurement time, limited elevation detection, and high susceptibility to the environment. Comparatively, AiP mmWave radar is a better APA solution, because it is capable of long-distance detection with high range resolution and a wide elevation FOV, and free space detection through dense point clouds.
As requirements for vehicle safety tighten, CPD becomes more widely applied and its market also expands rapidly. However, existing mmWave sensors are faced with multiple challenges, including difficult installation due to their large sizes, high power consumption, poor heat dissipation, and high cost. These problems can be handled well with AiP mmWave devices, which satisfy the market requirements for smaller, lower-power and more cost-efficient radar. At the end of the speech, Zheng also demoed the in-cabin radar application implemented by Calterah Rhine-Mini product family.
At the well-attended and highly-interactive webinar, attendees raised quite a few questions regarding AiP and its applications, which were answered enthusiastically and promptly by Calterah.
While the automotive industry is moving towards connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) mobility, auto mmWave radar sensors are gradually becoming standard auto equipment. Calterah’s AiP mmWave ICs are able to satisfy the requirements of USRR, SRR, and in-cabin detection for automobiles, and moreover, with advantages in multiple aspects, they can enable emerging auto radar applications and help reinforce the trend of intelligent vehicles.
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Since its establishment in 1998, IWPC (International Wireless Industry Consortium) has focused on discussion of wireless technologies, with members covering all links of the wireless industry supply chain, including Original System Specifiers (OSSs), which are carriers, government agencies and automakers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and suppliers. Through IWPC activities like technical seminars and workshops, OSSs are able to learn timely about the OEMs’ developments and their suppliers’ upcoming technologies directly from the source; OEMs in an open and interactive environment can efficiently learn of the requirements of their customers and their suppliers’ developments, which can be taken into account on their product development roadmaps; suppliers can be informed about the needs of their customers and their “customers’ customers”. IWPC aims at facilitating the supply chain to obtain timely, unbiased, objective and ongoing visibility to the needs of the wireless industry and customers, and delivering insight into vital technologies, market and ecosystem evolution. |
加特兰发表IWPC主题演讲，分享AiP技术与新兴应用
近日，加特兰微电子科技在IWPC全球网络研讨会上，进行了题为“Antenna in Package (AiP) Devices Enable Emerging Applications for the Automotive Market”（《封装集成天线（AiP）产品助力汽车市场新兴应用》）的主题演讲。
来自全球汽车领域的知名OEM、顶级Tier-1供应商如安波福、博世、大陆，以及芯片行业上游的约150家企业和机构、超300人次注册并出席了会议，聆听加特兰的分享，关注和探讨AiP技术以及AiP产品在汽车新兴应用上的使用和发展。
在主题演讲中，加特兰生产技术总监王典博士介绍了AiP技术的优势与加特兰AiP技术的发展，产品线经理王政探讨了现存汽车雷达方案面临的挑战以及AiP技术如何助力汽车新兴应用。
王典博士介绍，相较于传统毫米波雷达，采用AiP技术的毫米波雷达模块具有集成度高、尺寸小、天线生产一致性高及精度高、无外部连接或辐射损失、设计门槛低、成本低等特点。加特兰的AiP技术研发始于2017年，经历了四代AiP芯片的更迭和优化，最终实现量产。目前，加特兰AiP芯片包含在Alps、Rhine、Alps-Mini以及Rhine-Mini各个系列中。
在天线性能方面，加特兰的设计冗余度很高，包括高阻抗带宽冗余及增益冗余。以加特兰4发4收的AiP毫米波雷达芯片为例，在超短距模式下，对于10 m2 RCS的目标，其检测距离达45米，视场角（FOV）为90°，支持4D检测；在短距模式下，对于相同RCS的目标，其检测距离达80米，视场角（FOV）为90°，支持通过使用内部的移相器实现俯仰方向的模拟发射器波束成形（Beamforming）。
关于AiP技术在汽车雷达应用方面的优点，王政列举了两种新兴应用场景：自动泊车辅助（APA）与儿童存在检测（CPD）。
传统的自动泊车辅助采用超声波雷达，但在检测距离、俯仰角检测以及检测时间方面都存在不足，对环境依赖较大。而AiP毫米波雷达支持远距离检测，在距离精度、俯仰方向的视场角（FOV）等多方面表现优秀，致密的点云效果大大增强了系统的环境建模能力，从而能够更好地应对当前APA的各种问题。
随着各国对车辆安全的要求提高，儿童存在检测应用越来越普及，其市场也在急剧增长。但现存的毫米波雷达方案却面临许多问题：尺寸大、安装难、功耗高、散热难、造价高。而AiP毫米波芯片雷达方案恰好能解决这些痛点，满足市场对雷达小型化、低功耗、低成本的要求。王政还演示了加特兰基于其Rhine-Mini系列芯片开发的舱内检测雷达的效果。
研讨会上，与会者提出了很多具体的有关AiP技术和应用的问题，加特兰与会代表也积极参与互动，热情答疑解惑。
随着汽车新四化的发展，车载毫米波雷达已经逐渐成为汽车新标配。加特兰AiP毫米波芯片满足汽车短距、超短距以及舱内人体检测的需求，其各方面的优势将赋能汽车新兴应用，助力汽车智能化发展取得更多进步。
| IWPC全称为国际无线产业联盟（International Wireless Industry Consortium）自1998年成立以来专注于无线技术相关领域的研讨，其成员遍布全球无线行业供应链的各个环节，包括原始系统定义者（Original System Specifier, 简称OSS，包括通信公司、网络运营商、汽车公司以及政府机构）、原始设备生产商（Original Equipment Manufacturer, 简称OEM）以及供应商。IWPC的技术研讨会和工作坊等活动，帮助OSS及时从源头上了解OEM及其供应商的新兴技术发展；OEM也可以在开放互动的环境下有效获知客户的需求和供应商的发展，以便在自己的产品路线图上考量这些因素；而供应商也能了解他们的客户以及“客户的客户”的需求。IWPC旨在通过开放、互动的沟通与合作，推动整个供应链上下游及时、客观、持续地获取行业和客户的需求，并提供重要技术、市场和生态演进的洞见。 |
Calterah Receives 2021 Lingxuan Award for Excellent Mass-Produced ICs
On December 3 and 4, China Auto Supply Chain Summit (CASCS) 2021 and the 6th China Lingxuan Awards Ceremony were held in Wuhan, China. Calterah was honored with the Lingxuan Award for Excellent Mass-Produced ICs for its Alps family of mmWave radar SoC chips.
Calterah Marketing Director of Automotive Products Receiving the Lingxuan Award
CASCS 2021, themed on changes, addressed the reinforcement, optimization, and extension of the auto supply chain and other major relevant topics such as carbon neutrality, and security and regionalization of the chain. Over 500 leading companies in the auto parts industry from China and abroad attended the event. On the second day of the summit, the ceremony of China Auto Parts Industry Awards, also known as Lingxuan Awards took place. Initiated by the Auto Business Review magazine in 2016, the Lingxuan Awards aims to discover and encourage more preeminent companies and emerging players in the auto parts industry and offer auto manufacturers a tech-focused landscape of the supply chain. Ever since its establishment, the Lingxuan Awards has become an indicator of competitiveness and progress for China’s auto parts industry.
In the run-up to the ceremony, top auto parts enterprises, with their shortlisted products and solutions, competed vigorously for the awards for 11 categories including powertrain systems, ICs, cockpits and more. As its Alps products stood out in the jury review by the six criteria, namely level of advancement, reliability, adaptability, serviceability, brand power and market share, Calterah carried off the Lingxuan Award for Excellent Mass-Produced ICs .
The award-winning Alps chips are Calterah’s second-generation CMOS mmWave radar SoC ICs, composed of a 2T4R or 4T4R transceiver, a highly configurable FMCW generator, high-speed ADCs, radar signal processing baseband, and a high-performance CPU. Alps was officially mass-produced in February 2021, and then certified as ASIL-B fully compliant by TÜV Rheinland in August, becoming China’s first ICs to obtain the ISO 26262 full compliance certification.
Alps is also one of the two SoC families with radar signal processing baseband that Calterah took the lead to roll out. Prior to Alps, the company as a leading CMOS mmWave radar chip design house already mass-produced the world’s first automotive-grade CMOS 77 GHz or 79 GHz mmWave RF front-end radar-on-chip. Calterah has also subsequently launched AiP ICs, accelerating the application of mmWave radar in auto and other markets. In October this year, Calterah unveiled its Mini products featuring “Mini, but Mighty” to fulfill the requirements of emerging applications for the size, power consumption, and cost of radar sensors. The company currently is also going all out to develop next-generation radar chips of greater competitiveness and supply the end markets with more powerful solutions.
For Calterah, the significance of earning a Lingxuan Award is not just about winning, but about fully leveraging the mmWave radar technology to help advance autonomous driving and make a contribution to boosting the competitiveness of China’s auto supply chain, as the CASE (Connectivity, Autonomy, Shared mobility, Electrification) technologies continue to transform the auto industry.
加特兰荣获第六届铃轩奖量产类集成电路优秀奖
12月3日至4日，2021中国汽车供应链峰会暨第六届中国汽车铃轩奖盛典在武汉隆重召开。加特兰凭借Alps系列毫米波雷达SoC芯片，荣获铃轩奖量产类集成电路优秀奖。
加特兰汽车市场总监出席领奖
2021中国汽车供应链峰会以“链变”为主题，探讨强链、补链、延链以及与供应链密切相关的重大议题，如碳中和、供应链安全与区域化等。超500家中外优秀零部件企业参加了峰会。中国汽车零部件年度贡献奖——铃轩奖颁奖盛典于12月4日在峰会上隆重举行。该奖项于2016年由《汽车商业评论》创立，旨在发掘、鼓励汽车零部件行业的优秀分子和新生力量，为汽车厂商提供技术为先的供应链考量。自创立以来，铃轩奖已经成为中国汽车零部件行业的风向标。
本届铃轩奖，汽车零部件行业内翘楚竞相角逐，涉及动力总成类、集成电路类、智能座舱等11类别。加特兰Alps系列雷达SoC芯片凭借在“先进性、可靠性、适应性、服务力、品牌力、市占率”六个评审指标方面的突出表现，脱颖而出，斩获铃轩奖量产类集成电路优秀奖。
此次获奖的Alps系列产品是加特兰第二代CMOS毫米波雷达SoC芯片，集成了2发4收或4发4收的射频收发器、高度可配置的波形发生器、高速ADC、雷达信号处理加速器以及高性能的处理器。Alps系列产品在2021年2月正式实现量产，今年8月通过了德国莱茵TÜV审核评估，成为国内首个完全符合ISO 26262标准并获得第三方认证的芯片产品，达到ASIL-B级别。
Alps产品是加特兰领先推出的集成雷达基带处理的SoC芯片系列之一。在此之前，加特兰作为CMOS工艺毫米波雷达芯片领导者，量产了全球首个汽车级CMOS工艺77/79 GHz毫米波雷达射频前端芯片。加特兰后续还推出了封装集成片上天线AiP技术，加速了毫米波雷达在汽车和行业市场的普及。今年10月，加特兰新推出了具有“迷你尺寸，超群表现”的Mini系列产品，以更好地满足新兴应用对雷达传感器的体积、功耗和成本要求。目前，加特兰也在全力打造下一代更具竞争力的雷达产品，为终端市场提供更有力的解决方案。
对于加特兰来说，获得铃轩奖的意义不在于成为优胜者，而是在汽车“新四化”的发展趋势下，充分发挥毫米波雷达的优势，为自动驾驶技术发展提供助力，为中国汽车供应链竞争力地图贡献一份力量。
