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.

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……

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……

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……

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……

Recently, Calterah has released on its website a set of training videos, in a move to help customers better understand and learn how to use its radar sensor chips. The training videos, produced by a team of senior FAEs and an AE, cover how to conduct purpose-specific operations with Calterah-provided RDPs (Radar Development Platforms), DCKs (Data Collection Kits), and SDK (Software Development Kit), how to debug firmware projects with third-party software, and how to configure SDK parameters and radar sensor parameters. By watching these videos, customers, with the help of relevant documentation, can understand how to configure application-specific parameters and use our boards for a certain purpose. The training videos are expected to acquaint customers with the Calterah Alps/Rhine platforms sooner and help them better understand our products and services, thus reducing the development cycle and time to market. To find the training videos, go to Calterah official website. From the navigation bar, choose Support and then click Training Videos. All videos are available to website users except those labeled “Only for Enterprise User”. To upgrade to an Enterprise User, reach us via sales@caleterah.com. Training Videos on Calterah.com In the future, we will continue to update these videos and produce……