Texas Instruments Brings New Chinese Monolithic Millimeter Wave Sensor Portfolio to China Electronics

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The 2017 China Electronics Show (CEF) officially closed in Chengdu. At the same time, the “2017 China Western Microwave RF Technology Seminar” hosted by China Electronic Equipment Company and China Electronic Instrument Industry Association was successfully held during the exhibition. As one of the world's leading semiconductor companies, Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) is presenting this year's Electronics Show with its new single-chip millimeter-wave complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) product portfolio, while TI China's embedded products Mr. Jiang Hong, Director of System and Application, also visited the site and gave a keynote speech on “Breakthrough Millimeter Wave Radar Technology” at the seminar. The participants shared the latest development trend of millimeter wave technology and the millimeter wave sensor in the car. Industrial applications.

CEF is China's oldest and most authoritative electronic industry exhibition, providing a platform for many leading companies in the field of electronic information and technology experts to develop and explore technology trends. In this exhibition, TI's single-chip millimeter-wave sensor portfolio includes five solutions that span the two product families of 76-81GHz sensors with a complete end-to-end development platform, and will deliver unprecedented precision and precision. Intelligence has been introduced in a wide range of applications including automotive, factory and building automation, and the medical market. Compared to traditional silicon germanium (SiGe) based sensor technology, TI's CMOS-based radar sensors introduce higher digital and analog integration for high output power, low power consumption and low phase noise. In addition, with sophisticated analog design techniques and digital signal processing, designers can also implement intelligent and contactless sensing in their systems.

Mr. Jiang Hong, Director of Embedded Product Systems and Applications at TI China, said in the seminar: "High-precision single-chip millimeter-wave products conform to the trend of rapid development in the world, and also support many applications from automotive radar to industrial automation. These sophisticated sensors give designers a new platform to help vehicles, buildings, factories and drones achieve greater intelligence, safety and autonomy. The great advantage of millimeter-wave sensors is that they can be more The market has a lot of application space, and the complete millimeter wave portfolio is geared to two key markets: automotive and industrial, and TI is making a significant impact on these two major markets by making sensors more accurate, smaller, and simpler. TI's Industrial Millimeter Wave Solutions Series (IWR) detects object distance, speed and angle with unprecedented precision and robustness, while TI's Automotive Millimeter Wave Solutions Series (AWR) analyzes nearby environments and makes React to achieve a safer and easier driving experience."

Mr. Jiang Hong, Director of Embedded Product Systems and Applications, TI China, gave a keynote speech at the seminar

In addition to sharing the trends and applications of millimeter-wave sensors, TI also demonstrated short-range radar detection and the use of millimeter-wave radar technology to monitor heartbeat and respiration after the workshop, including the detection of moving targets within 80 meters using the TI AWR162 single-chip radar and The person's respiratory rate and heart rate are measured by pointing the radar at the person's chest. With built-in quality standards, unprecedented precision in small form factor and low power packages, TI's AWR1x millimeter wave portfolio not only helps designers improve the safety features of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. It also offers new features such as automatic parking assistance, pedestrian detection, and load factor and driver monitoring. TI's IWR1x millimeter-wave non-contact sensor instantly adapts to dynamically changing scenes by determining the extent, velocity, and angle of objects around the device, and is immune to ambient light, rain, dust, fog, or frost. Whether it is indoors or outdoors, it can run steadily.

For the past seven years, TI has been developing high-frequency CMOS circuits that combine all the functional blocks of a millimeter-wave sensor onto a single chip—from 76-81 GHz RF circuits to the processing blocks required for advanced sensing. Compared to today's deployed sensors, advanced mixed-signal circuits are up to ten times more accurate, and ultra-low-power transistors can be sensed on 25% of current sensors, making them ideal for automotive radar sensors and industrial millimeter-wave sensors. With the continuous construction of smart infrastructure, the emergence of new applications such as Industry 4.0, building automation products, and self-driving drones, technology R&D and developers are expecting sensors to take system performance and efficiency to a whole new level.