Recently, the 4-day long electronica 2022, the world’s leading trade fair for electronics, has come to a successful end. This year’s electronica held in Munich, Germany brought together over 2100 exhibitors from almost 50 countries, among which Calterah made an international debut with the most comprehensive mmWave radar sensor chip product portfolio the industry had ever seen, expanding its global presence as an emerging player.

The trade fair, too, turned out to be very productive for Calterah. The exhibits included massed produced products of 1st-generation transceivers, 2nd-generation SoCs, their corresponding development boards, and Calterah-inside mmWave radar modules developed by a top auto Tier-1 in China, attracting many visitors and potential customers from both auto and industrial fields. What was specially presented was the engineering samples of Calterah’s next-generation flagship product of the Andes family supporting high-performance 4D imaging radar functions in multi-chip cascade application. On the scene, the interactive demo of a vital sign detection and human tracking solution based on an industrial-grade SoC with the Antenna-in-Package (AiP) technology, in particular, was a huge appeal for visitors who had great interest in emerging industrial applications enabled by mmWave radar sensors.

This exhibition at electronica 2022 has demonstrated Calterah’s determination and capability in breaking into the global ADAS and auto driving market, by providing international customers with the most advanced mmWave technologies and solutions. This surely has strengthened and facilitated cooperation with global Tier-1s and solution providers in a way that is impossible without the face-to-face communication. 

When asked how he would like to describe Calterah in an Electronics Weekly interview, Dr. Chen, CEO of Calterah talked about what had been achieved on both R&D and business sides of Calterah as a leading company in CMOS mmWave radar sensor chip design and mass production, and its core competitiveness of strong CMOS mmWave know-how, high-level integration, proprietary radar signal processing hardware accelerator, and AiP (Antenna-in-Package) technology, which makes Calterah products stand out in the market in terms of PPA (performance, power, area) and cost. Dr. Chen also highlighted it was the exact mission of “Make Millimeter-Wave Serve Everyone” that was driving the company forward. Along with the perception of Calterah, in this interview the next-generation SoC platform of Andes, designed for high-performance radar sensors and 4D imaging radar in multi-chip cascade application, was also announced to be launched this December.

近期，在德国慕尼黑举办的世界顶级电子元器件博览会——2022慕尼黑电子展圆满结束。本届慕尼黑电子展为期四天，汇集了来自近50个国家的2100多家参展商。在本次慕尼黑展会上，加特兰展出了目前业界最全面的毫米波雷达芯片系列。

本次慕尼黑电子展，加特兰吸引了众多来自汽车和工业领域的国际参展者和潜在客户，受到了广泛关注。加特兰展出了包括第一代收发芯片和第二代SoC芯片的量产产品、相应的开发板以及国内头部汽车Tier 1基于加特兰芯片开发的雷达传感器。除此之外，加特兰还带来了下一代旗舰产品Andes芯片的工程样片，可通过多片级联实现4D成像雷达功能。展会现场，基于加特兰工规级AiP芯片的人体生命体征探测和人员跟踪的交互式演示，吸引了参展游客纷纷驻足参与互动，大家对毫米波雷达传感器在工业领域的新兴应用表现出充分的兴趣和探索欲。

此次亮相德国慕尼黑电子展，展现了加特兰赋能全球辅助驾驶和自动驾驶市场的决心和能力，为全球用户带来最先进的毫米波雷达技术和方案，进一步加深了与国际Tier 1以及方案商的紧密合作。

展会上，加特兰CEO陈嘉澍博士接受了《电子周刊》（Electronic Weekly）的采访，分享了加特兰作为CMOS毫米波雷达芯片设计与量产的领先企业在研发和业务方面的成就，以及核心技术优势：强劲的CMOS毫米波技术实力、芯片高集成度、自研雷达信号处理硬件加速器、封装集成片上天线（AiP）技术，这些使得加特兰的芯片产品在市场上具备出众的PPA（Performance, Power, Area 性能、功耗、面积）和成本优势。陈嘉澍博士还强调，推进加特兰前进的动力正是加特兰“让毫米波服务每个人”的使命。采访中也提到，加特兰将在今年12月推出新一代SoC平台——Andes产品系列。该系列产品定位于高性能雷达SoC，并且可通过多颗芯片级联实现高性能4D成像雷达功能。

2022德国慕尼黑电子展，不仅为加特兰提供了展示产品与技术实力的平台，也拉近了我们与客户的距离，让我们的毫米波技术更好地服务全球客户。

10月20日，加特兰微电子发布了毫米波雷达芯片新产品——Alps-Mini和Rhine-Mini。

Alps-Mini/Rhine-Mini芯片集成了完整的FMCW收发前端系统，包含两个发射通道和两个接收通道，支持59–64 GHz及76–81 GHz频段，可4 GHz连续扫频；输出功率12 dBm，ADC采样率可达25 MS/s，支持峰值搜索以及多种类型的CFAR，基带引擎有512 KiB的内存可供使用。Mini芯片同样达到车规标准，满足AEC-Q100及功能安全ISO 26262 ASIL-B等级要求，并提供标准版和AiP（Antenna in Package）版本供客户选择。

在继承了Alps/Rhine系列产品高性能模拟前端、汽车级工作温度范围及可靠性、独有的雷达信号硬件加速单元的基础上，处理器由单核升级为双核，同时增加了网络安全单元，使Mini系列产品能够实现加密和符合网络安全的标准。与此同时，相比Alps和Rhine，Mini产品的芯片尺寸缩减了40%，典型工作功耗只有0.8 W，并可以帮助客户节省超过20%的主芯片成本，真正达到更小尺寸、更加安全、更低功耗的要求，实现了“迷你尺寸，超群表现”。

截至2021年第三季度，加特兰芯片累计出货量已突破100万片，客户数量达到400多家，涵盖汽车、工业、消费等多个领域。随着产品逐渐推向市场，毫米波雷达的应用也在不断拓展——从最初的自动驾驶汽车市场逐渐扩展到更多应用领域，包括智能座舱、安防监控、智能家居、智慧城市……发布会现场，加特兰也向来场嘉宾展示了加特兰以及合作伙伴基于AiP产品实现的舱内生命存在检测和近距离环境建模演示视频。除了车载相关应用外，现场还展示了Mini产品在室内感知人体相关的演示视频，这也预示着毫米波雷达将逐渐在养老、智能家居这些新兴市场上得到普及。

发布会上加特兰CEO陈嘉澍表示：“毫米波雷达的应用正在由传统领域向新兴领域渗透，新兴应用对雷达传感器的体积、功耗和成本提出了更高的要求。Mini系列产品在满足这些要求的基础上仍然具有灵活的功能和卓越的性能，其中面向汽车应用的产品可以满足功能安全和可靠性的严苛标准。我们企业的使命就是让毫米波服务每个人。相信Mini系列产品的推出将有助于我们更快更好地向着这个理想迈进。”

On Oct. 20, Calterah unveiled two new mmWave radar chip product families, Alps-Mini and Rhine-Mini.

A Mini IC integrates an FMCW radar RF front-end transceiver system, which includes a dual-channel transmitter and a dual-channel receiver, capable of operation in the 59–64 GHz (for Rhine-Mini) or the 76–81 GHz (for Alps-Mini) band, with a 4 GHz continuous sweep and an output power up to 12 dBm. The chip also supports a maximum ADC sampling rate of 25 MS/s, peak search, and several algorithms to implement CFAR detection with a 512 KiB baseband SRAM. As an auto-grade product, it meets the requirements of the AEC-Q100 qualification and ISO 26262 ASIL-B standard, with two packages available, standard package and AiP (antenna in package).

While resembling Alps and Rhine in the high-performance RF front-end, auto-grade operating temperature, reliability, and proprietary radar signal processing hardware accelerator, Mini is upgraded with a dual-core processor and a cybersecurity unit for encryption and compliance with desired cybersecurity standards. Furthermore, compared to Alps and Rhine, Mini is 40% smaller in size with a typical power consumption of 0.8 W and over 20% of the main chip cost reduction. The ICs have been made smaller, safer, smarter, and more power efficient as the market requires, living up to the tagline “Mini, but Mighty”.

As of the third quarter, Calterah has hit the milestone of one million accumulated IC unit shipments, with a growing partnership with over 400 customers from the auto, industrial, and consumer markets. As more mmWave ICs break into these markets, mmWave radar is also extending the boundary of its applications, from autonomous driving in the beginning to many other fields like smart cabin, security and surveillance, smart home, smart city, etc. At the product launch, Calterah demoed in-cabin occupancy detection and USRR environment modeling implemented by Calterah AiP chip products via videos produced both on its own and by its customer. In addition to automotive applications, indoor human detection enabled by Mini was also showed, which signified the rise of mmWave radar in elderly care and smart home in the future.

In his speech at the event, Calterah’s CEO Dr. Chen Jiashu said, “Apart from traditional fields, mmWave radar has been entering emerging industries, which put more stringent requirements for the size, power consumption, and cost of radar sensors. The Mini product families not only satisfy these requirements, but also provide flexible functions and show excellent performance. The auto-grade ICs, in particular, are able to meet the high standards of functional safety and reliability. So, we believe the launch of Mini is one step closer to fulfilling our mission of making mmWave serve everyone.”

随着ADAS和自动驾驶技术的快速演变，汽车厂商向半导体芯片行业提出了日渐复杂的安全要求，加速了汽车功能安全标准ISO 26262和网络安全标准lSO/SAE 21434在半导体芯片行业的渗透 。

日前，加特兰受邀出席了由德国莱茵TÜV举办的半导体功能安全与网络安全技术、标准和实践分享交流会。此次交流会汇聚了业界一流的技术专家，从技术、标准和最佳实践三个维度，对半导体功能安全与网络安全、汽车与芯片厂商的技术融合等关键问题进行了全面解读。加特兰功能安全经理宋宇作为特邀演讲嘉宾，从为什么需要“安全”芯片和如何开发“安全”芯片两个角度，分享了加特兰作为芯片设计公司在功能安全实践中的经验和心得。

图1 交流会现场

加特兰于2020年3月通过了ISO 26262功能安全管理体系认证，该体系可以支持功能安全等级达到ASIL-D的芯片产品开发设计。2021年8月16日，加特兰的Alps系列雷达SoC芯片又成功通过德国莱茵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，达到了ASIL-B级别。Alps芯片产品的开发和认证过程历时三年左右，充分证明了加特兰在功能安全方面的投入、积累和能力。

图2 加特兰分享功能安全实践经验

交流会上，宋宇首先对比了汽车行业与工业安全控制系统、铁路信号等行业在安全应用和架构上的差异，总结了汽车行业对安全架构和“安全”芯片的特殊要求。接着从安全管理、安全概念设计、IP评估、单元验证和集成验证等方面，展示了加特兰是如何满足这些苛刻的要求，并开发出国内首个完全符合ISO 26262标准且获得第三方产品认证的芯片产品——Alps。此外，他还就大家重点关注的内容，比如永久与瞬态失效率的预估、安全机制的设计指导原则等，做了经验分享。

宋宇强调，对加特兰来讲，获得产品认证最大的意义并非这一纸证书和“首个”的名分，而是籍此通过第三方，证明了加特兰产品对于安全标准的合规性。因为只有我们的产品合规，我们才能帮助客户的产品合规，加速客户的安全分析、产品导入和装车量产。加特兰希望为中国的汽车工业贡献出一份力量，“让毫米波服务每个人”。

While ADAS and autonomous driving technologies are rapidly evolving, the safety requirements automakers have for the IC industry are becoming increasingly complex, which fast-tracks active embracement of the automotive functional safety standard ISO 26262 and the cybersecurity standard lSO/SAE 21434 in the semiconductor industry.

Recently, Calterah was invited by TÜV Rheinland Greater China to a seminar for exchanges on technologies, standards and practices of semiconductor functional safety and cybersecurity, where top-notch IC technical experts gathered together to share insights about key issues, such as IC functional safety and cybersecurity, and collaboration of automakers and chip design companies. At the seminar, Calterah’s Functional Safety Manager Song Yu shared Calterah’s experience of functional safety practices and lessons learned as a fabless design house from two perspectives: why chips with functional safety are required and how to develop such ICs.

Figure 1. Audience at the Seminar

Calterah achieved ISO 26262 functional safety management certification in March 2020 with its processes supporting development of ICs up to the ASIL-D level. In August 2021, Calterah further passed the assessment of TÜV Rheinland and its Alps family members of radar sensor SoC chips were certified as ASIL-B fully compliant, becoming China’s first to obtain the ISO 26262 full compliance certification. The 3-year-long development and certification process of the Alps chips bears testimony to Calterah’s investment, know-how and capability in functional safety.

Figure 2. Calterah Shares Experience of Functional Safety Practices

In his speech, Song Yu first compared the differences in terms of safety-critical applications and architectures among the automotive field, industrial control systems, and railway signalling systems, and summarized special safety requirements the auto industry has for architectures and chips. Then he introduced how Calterah had managed to fulfil these requirements in functional safety management, functional safety concept, IP assessment, unit verification and integration verification, and developed the Alps products, the first ICs in China that are fully compliant with the ISO 26262 standard and certified by a third party. Moreover, Song also shared his knowledge about topics of great interest to the audience, such as evaluation of permanent and transient failure rates and guiding principles for safety mechanism design.

“The fact that Calterah’s Alps ICs have been proven compliant with the ISO 26262 standard is more significant than the certificate per se and being an industry-first in China,” Song Yu emphasized, “because only when our products become compliant with the standard, can we help clients achieve compliance and accelerate safety analysis, new product introduction and mass production.” This is in line with Calterah’s efforts to contribute to China’s auto industry and deliver on its mission “Make Millimeter-Wave Serve Everyone”.

9月10日，由希迈商务咨询（上海）主办的智能汽车毫米波雷达创新技术论坛在上海举行。本次论坛旨在为行业同仁提供一个高专业性与高精准度的交流平台，共同探讨全球毫米波雷达的发展趋势、技术难点等热门话题，为车载毫米波雷达带来更优质的解决方案。加特兰受邀出席会议并发表了有关最新毫米波雷达解决方案的演讲。

会议上，加特兰业务拓展主管高少杰回顾了毫米波雷达工艺的演进与突破。加特兰一直致力于CMOS工艺的毫米波雷达芯片开发与设计，在2017年成功量产了全球首个汽车级CMOS工艺77/79GHz毫米波雷达射频前端芯片后，2019年又率先推出了集成雷达基带处理的SoC芯片及封装集成片上天线（Antenna-in-Package）技术，为市场提供了更安全、更智能的毫米波雷达芯片。

加特兰不仅致力于成为全球最优秀的毫米波雷达芯片提供者，更逐渐发展成为优秀的毫米波雷达方案提供者。近年来，加特兰不断在应用及解决方案上实现突破。在汽车雷达领域，基于加特兰AiP芯片平台的盲点检测（BSD）、开门预警（DOW）、自动泊车（APA）、驾驶员监控系统（DMS）等解决方案已陆续被汽车厂商采用，最早将于明年实现量产；在工业方面，加特兰积极拓展毫米波雷达的应用市场，在安防安检、智慧交通及智能家居领域取得了重大突破。会议上，高少杰也向来场嘉宾展示了基于加特兰AiP芯片平台的应用效果，获得了广泛认可。

未来，加特兰会加强与上下游之间的合作，围绕毫米波雷达市场深入交流和探索，为客户提供完整的参考设计和解决方案，降低毫米波雷达的开发门槛和成本，让毫米波服务每个人。

On Sep. 10, the Intelligent Vehicle Millimeter Wave Radar Innovation Technology Forum organized by China Polaris was held in Shanghai. The forum aims to provide industry colleagues with a highly professional and targeted communication platform to discuss hot topics such as the trend of mmWave radar and technical difficulties, so as to bring better solutions for automotive mmWave radar. Calterah was invited to deliver a speech on its latest mmWave radar solutions.

Calterah’s Business Development Supervisor Gao Shaojie reviewed mmWave radar technological development and breakthroughs at the event. Dedicated to the development and design of CMOS mmWave radar ICs, Calterah mass-produced the world’s first auto-grade CMOS 77-/79-GHz mmWave radar RF front-end chip in 2017 and soon took the lead to roll out baseband-integrated radar SoCs and the Antenna-in-Package technology in 2019, offering the market safer and smarter mmWave radar chips.

With the commitment to be the world’s best fabless of mmWave radar chips, Calterah is also growing into an excellent provider of mmWave radar solutions. In recent years, Calterah has made continuous breakthroughs in radar applications and solutions. Its AiP-based automotive radar solutions for ADAS features of BSD, DOW, and APA and DMS have been adopted by auto makers for models to be mass-produced as early as next year. The company is also expanding into the industrial application market and has achieved major progress in security and surveillance, smart transport, and smart home. In her presentation, Gao Shaojie also demonstrated four applications powered by AiP chips, which was widely recognized.

Going forward, Calterah will strengthen its cooperation and deepen exchanges with upstream and downstream enterprises and explore further into the mmWave radar market. By providing complete reference designs and solutions for clients and lowering the threshold and cost for mmWave radar module development, Calterah promises to “Make Millimeter-Wave Serve Everyone”.

On Aug. 16, 2021, Calterah officially announced its Alps family members of mmWave radar sensor SoC chips had been certified as ASIL-B fully compliant by TÜV Rheinland, becoming China’s first to obtain the ISO 26262 full compliance certification.

Fig. 1 Dr Chen Jiashu (left), CEO of Calterah, Receiving Certificate from Dr Chen Weikang (right), Vice President of Industrial Service and Cyber Security Stream of TÜV Rheinland Group Greater China

Calterah CEO Dr Chen Jiashu and Calterah representatives from its functional safety project team, and Dr Chen Weikang, Vice President of the Industrial Services and Cyber Security Stream of TÜV Rheinland Group Greater China and Yang Jiayue, Vice General Manager of Industrial Services and Cyber Security Stream of TÜV Rheinland Group Greater China, were present at the certification awarding ceremony.

ISO 26262 is comprised of 12 parts with the following parts applicable to semiconductors: Part 2 Functional Safety Management, Part 5 Hardware-Level Product Development, Part 8 Supporting Processes, Part 9 ASIL-Oriented and Safety-Oriented Analysis, and Part 11 Guidelines on Application of ISO 26262 to Semiconductors. Calterah Alps products have been assessed by TÜV Rheinland in terms of their compliance with all of the five mentioned parts, covering safety lifecycle management, hardware safety requirements, hardware architectural design, hardware detailed design, hardware integration and verification, verification against the features and performances of engineering samples, reliability testing, and user documentation. With completion and passing of the assessment, Calterah becomes China’s first to have certified chip products with full compliance with ISO 26262 ASIL-B.

Fig. 2 Group Photo of Calterah Functional Safety Project Representatives and TÜV Rheinland Representatives

The certified Alps products are composed of a 2T4R/4T4R transceiver, a highly configurable FMCW generator, high-speed ADCs, a baseband, and a high-performance processor. The development of Alps products strictly complies with the V model and about 3000 random failure modes have been analyzed with corresponding safety mechanisms designed to meet ISO 26262 ASIL-B requirements with regard to systematic failure, random failure and other aspects.  

Fig. 3 ISO 26262 ASIL-B Certificate for Calterah Alps Products

Sticking to a rigorous development process, Calterah has conducted iterations of testing and full verification to improve the safety and reliability of its chip products. mmWave radar sensor chips are essential sensing units in ADAS and autonomous driving. By achieving the functional safety product certification, Calterah Alps has showcased its full compliance with functional safety requirements, which not only helps customers reach safety goals of ADAS, but also means reduced time for Alps-based systems to pass high-level safety evaluation and therefore an accelerated New Product Introduction process and mass production.

The ISO 26262 product certificate marks the culmination of three years of joint efforts from R&D, marketing and project management, said the CEO of Calterah, Dr Chen, adding this speaks volume about Calterah’s investment, know-how and capability in functional safety. As of today, we have built a complete functional safety management system and achieved product certification, which is a vivid example of honoring the company values of breaking limits and collaborating for success. At the same time, we are greatly impressed by and have benefited from the professionalism and meticulousness demonstrated by those from TÜV Rheinland involved in the certification process.

Calterah is a leading company in mmWave radar technology and TÜV Rheinland expects to have deeper and broader exchanges and dialogues with it and have Calterah in its future summits and forums, according to Dr Chen Weikang, Vice President of the Industrial Service and Cyber Security Stream of TÜV Rheinland Group Greater China.

Moving forward, Calterah will roll out more automotive radar sensor SoC chips with greater performance and in compliance with functional safety requirements. Dedicated to becoming world’s best in mmWave radar sensor chips, Calterah aspires to “Make mmWave Serve Everyone”, with safety and reliability ensured.

2021年8月16日，加特兰微电子正式宣布Alps系列雷达SoC芯片成功通过德国莱茵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。

图1 德国莱茵TÜV陈伟康博士向加特兰微电子CEO陈嘉澍博士颁发产品认证证书

加特兰微电子CEO陈嘉澍博士和功能安全相关同事；以及德国莱茵TÜV大中华区工业服务与信息安全事业群副总裁、高级工程师陈伟康，副总经理杨家玥等出席了颁证仪式。

ISO 26262标准由12个Part组成，其中Part 2/5/8/9/11分别涉及功能安全管理、硬件设计、支持过程、安全分析、半导体实践指导等，适用于半导体产品的开发。德国莱茵TÜV对Alps系列芯片在这五个part的符合性全部进行了评估，认可其从功能安全全生命周期管理、产品安全需求、安全架构设计、详细设计和实现、前后端仿真验证、工程样片功能性能以及可靠性验证、用户文档等各方面均完全符合ISO 26262标准ASIL B级别的要求。这也是国内首个完全符合ISO 26262标准的芯片产品。

图2 加特兰功能安全项目组成员与德国莱茵TÜV颁证代表合影

此次认证的Alps系列芯片集成了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。其开发严格遵守V模型，对内部单元进行了近3000条的随机失效及相关失效分析，并设计了相应的安全机制，确保芯片在系统性失效和随机性失效等各方面均可满足ISO 26262 ASIL-B的要求。

图3 加特兰Alps系列芯片ISO 26262 ASIL-B证书

加特兰微电子坚持使用严谨的开发流程、严苛的测试和充分的验证来提升芯片产品的可靠性。此次通过功能安全产品认证，表明Alps系列芯片作为高级辅助驾驶和自动驾驶系统中关键的感知单元，完全符合功能安全方面的要求，可以帮助客户实现ADAS系统的安全目标。同时也意味着客户基于Alps系列芯片构建的系统将可以快速通过高级别的安全评估，加速产品导入和装车量产。

加特兰CEO陈嘉澍博士表示，Alps芯片产品的开发和认证过程历时三年左右，横跨研发、市场、项目管理等多个部门，充分证明了加特兰在功能安全方面的投入、积累和能力。我们今天具备完整的功能安全管理体系，并获得功能安全产品认证，再一次印证了加特兰突破自我、协作向赢的价值观。同样，认证过程中我们也深刻感受到了德国莱茵TÜV从业人员的专业和严谨，使我们受益良多。

德国莱茵TÜV大中华区工业服务与信息安全事业群副总裁、高级工程师陈伟康也表示，德国莱茵TÜV非常期待跟加特兰这样在毫米波雷达行业技术领先的半导体公司有更深入的交流和对话，互相学习，并诚邀加特兰参加未来举办的峰会和论坛。

未来，加特兰将继续推出符合功能安全要求且功能更加强大的汽车雷达芯片产品。加特兰致力于成为毫米波雷达芯片领域的标杆企业，在安全可靠的前提下，让毫米波服务每个人。