On Dec. 24, China Auto Supply Chain Summit (CASCS) 2022 and the 7th China Auto Parts Industry Awards (CAPIA, also known as the Lingxuan Awards) Ceremony were held in Wuhan, China. Calterah was honored with the Lingxuan Award for Excellent Forward-Looking ICs by virtue of its Andes family of mmWave radar SoC chips. This honor came after last year’s recognition of the Lingxuan Award for Excellent Mass-Produced ICs for the Alps family of mmWave radar SoC chips.  The products and technologies filed for this year’s Awards exceeded 200 cases and can be sorted into 10 categories, including intelligent driving and ICs. The jury for the Awards came from the purchasing and R&D departments of Chinese car makers and senior experts in the industry. After 4 rounds of deliberation and reviews, Calterah stood out for the advancement, applicability, and influence of its Andes mmWave radar SoC products, and won the Lingxuan Award for Excellent Forward-Looking ICs.   Calterah’s Andes mmWave radar sensor SoC product family was officially launched at the Calterah Day 2022 event on Dec. 20. The next-generation SoC platform adopts the 22 nm process and integrates a multi-core CPU, a DSP, and an RSP. With extraordinary computation power, flexible……

  At 10 am Beijing time on Dec. 20, the Calterah Day 2022 themed with Next Wave, first of its kind, was initiated where two new mmWave radar SoC families, Alps-Pro and Andes, were launched.   Alps-Pro Alps-Pro is developed based on the mmWave radar SoC platform of Alps, featuring more powerful, more robust and more optimal. The new Alps-Pro device integrates a 4T4R transceiver capable of operation in 76–81 GHz band, high-speed ADCs, BBA (Baseband Accelerator) supporting the complete radar signal processing flow, a dual-core CPU, and cybersecurity engines. Also, the device supports CAN, CAN-FD, and 100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces and its typical power consumption is as low as 1.8 W at 50% duty cycle when 4 TXs and 4 RX are all on.  Compared to Alps products, the newly-launched Alps-Pro product has several advantages: FMCW transceiver system More accurate phase shifter; higher channel-to-channel isolation; greater RF link budget. Reduced spur attenuation; CISPR 25 Class 5 for EMC; 100% faster functional safety mechanism detection. BBA More efficient DDM flow; coherent CFAR; SVA supported. Greater performance in interference detection and mitigation; bit-true simulator for each BBA engine. Digital circuitry Memory size increased by 100%; single-core CPU upgraded to dual-core; interface……

As a number of car models equipped with Calterah’s automotive-grade SoCs have entered into mass production recently, the high-performance corner radar solution with the DDM-MIMO function developed by Calterah based on an Alps mmWave radar SoC chip facilitates a safer and smarter driving experience. Recent years have seen the overwhelming installation rate of mmWave radar in smart cars as intelligent driving advances to higher levels. The radar solution employed by new cars is also evolving to a 5R (5 mmWave radar sensors) configuration, where in most cases 1 forward-looking radar sensor and 4 corner radar sensors are included, or even configurations with more radar devices. As a leading fabless provider of mmWave radar chips and solutions, Calterah has enabled the corner radar applications to 50+ car models, in the market and to be mass-produced. At present, many top Chinese and foreign passenger car brands have adopted Calterah’s corner radar solutions developed based on its automotive-grade mmWave radar SoCs. Calterah provides a multi-mode radar solution for corner radar applications, including high-performance DDM-MIMO for medium-range mode and TDM-MIMO for short-range mode, which enables real-time detection of objects beside, in front of and behind the vehicle, providing the information regarding range, relative velocity,……