Automotive Radar Solution Navigates Busy Street Environments

At the electronica 2022 trade show, Renesas Electronics addressed the automotive radar market with the introduction of a 4- × 4-channel, 76- to 81-GHz transceiver designed to meet the demanding requirements of ADAS.
Dec. 22, 2022

This video is part of our electronica 2022 coverage and the TechXchange: Automotive Radar

At the electronica 2022 trade show, Renesas Electronics addressed the automotive radar market with the introduction of a 4- × 4-channel, 76- to 81-GHz transceiver designed to meet the demanding requirements of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Designed along with Steradian Semiconductors, the new transceiver MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit) is particularly suited for imaging radar, long-range forward-looking radar, and 4D radar, but it also can be used for corner and central-processing radar architectures.

Equipped with 4Tx and 4Rx channels, the RAA270205 supports up to 16 MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) channels. It can be cascaded to enable higher channel count and better radar resolution. The RAA270205 offers up to 5 GHz of bandwidth, with a 112.5-Msample/s ADC (analog-to-digital converter) sampling rate nearly 3X faster than competing devices. Power consumption is 1.2 W, with a noise figure of 9 dB3 dB less than other radar transceivers. Its chirp rate of up to 300 MHz/µs improves radar resolution and object detection.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces

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