Infineon Technologies Ag

Romain Ygnace

Andre Roger

Markus Bichl

Farhan Bin Khalid

Dian Tresna Nugraha

David Addison

Ljudmil Anastasov

Andre' Roger

Juergen Schaefer

Paul Meissner

Herbert Jaeger

Hendrikus Van Lierop

Christian Schmid

Wojciech Kudla

Pedro Costa

Muhammad Hassan

Jaap Verheggen

Matthias Marquardt

Manoj Kumar Harihar

André Roger

An electronic control unit includes a signal input circuit configured to receive a sensor signal from a radar sensor or from a lidar sensor and a processing circuit configured to determine a first condition based on a first representation of the sensor signal, and to generate an activation signal in response to the first condition.

Electronic control unit, gateway circuit for an airbag electronic control unit, safety system for a vehicle, and environmental sensor element

A method for a radar system having a plurality of antennas is provided. The method includes processing a plurality of radar signals for determining a distance between the radar system and at least one target and a velocity of the at least one target, thereby forming a plurality of processed radar signals. Each radar signal of the plurality of radar signals is received by an associated antenna of the plurality of antennas. The plurality of processed radar signals are digitally beamformed for at least one beam direction, thereby forming a plurality of beamformed radar signals. The plurality of beamformed radar signals are summed from the plurality of antennas per beam direction.

Radar system and method of handling radar signals of a radar system

A method of handling radar signals of a radar system having a plurality of antennas is provided. The method may include generating a plurality of time-based radar signals based on a radar signal received by an associated antenna of the plurality of antennas, and transforming each time-based radar signal of the time-based radar signals into radar signals that each comprise a plurality of pairs of a frequency-based-value and an associated intensity value. The method includes storing the frequency-based-values and the intensity values of one frequency-based radar signal corresponding to one time-based radar signal of one antenna of the plurality of antennas; and storing each intensity value of the plurality of intensity values of another of the plurality of frequency-based radar signals based on a corresponding intensity value of the one frequency-based radar signal, wherein a stored representation of the intensity value of the other of the plurality of frequency-based radar signals has fewer bits than the corresponding stored intensity value.

Method of compressing radar data using frequency bins

A radar device is provided comprising a first processing unit, a radar circuitry, at least one security circuitry, at least one secure memory, and a secure interface arranged for communicating with a second processing unit that is external to the radar device, wherein the first processing unit is arranged to configure and/or run the radar device based on parameters obtained via the secure interface from the second processing unit.

Radar device with integrated security capability

A radar device is provided that is arranged for conducting an interference detection and mitigation based on received and sampled radar signals and storing interference-mitigated data; conducting an FFT on the interference-mitigated data and storing FF-transformed data; conducting a compression on the FF-transformed data into compressed data; and storing the compressed data in a memory. Also, a method for operating such radar device is suggested.

Processing radar signals

A processor having a hardware decompressor configured to pad a non-equidistant data set, which is data received at irregular time intervals, with one or more of a predefined value, wherein the data is radar or optical sensor data; and a Fourier transform engine configured to receive the padded non-equidistant data set directly and continuously per data set from the hardware decompressor, and to FFT process the received padded non-equidistant data set.

Hardware decompressor for padding non-equidistant data

A radar sensor is described herein. In accordance with one example embodiment the radar sensor includes a transmitter for transmitting an RF signal and a receiver configured to receive a respective back-scattered signal from at least one radar target and to provide a corresponding digital radar signal. The radar sensor further includes a processor configured to convert the digital radar signal into the frequency do-main thus providing respective frequency domain data and to compress the frequency domain data. A communication interface is configured to transmit the compressed frequency domain data via a communication link operably coupled to the communication interface. Furthermore, respective and related radar methods and systems are described.

Distributed radar sensor system

An apparatus for light detection and ranging is provided. The apparatus includes a reflective surface configured to oscillate about a rotation axis, and a plurality of light sources each configured to controllably emit a respective light beam via an optical system onto the reflective surface. Further, the apparatus includes a controller configured to control emission times of the plurality of light sources so that the reflective surface emits a plurality of light beams to an environment according to a first sequence of beam directions for a first measurement, and according to a second sequence of beam directions for a subsequent second measurement.

Apparatuses and method for light detection and ranging

A radar device is disclosed including an input DMA module, at least one processing module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is arranged to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module, wherein each of the processing modules is arranged to be enabled or disabled. The at least one processing module that is enabled is arranged to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, and the output DMA module is arranged to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, a method for processing data by a radar device is provided.

Device and method for processing radar signals

A radar device is disclosed that includes an input DMA module, at least one processing module, a histogram module, and an output DMA module. The input DMA module is configured to access a memory and supply data from the memory to the at least one processing module and/or to the histogram module. Each of the processing modules is configured to be enabled or disabled, wherein the at least one processing module that is enabled is configured to process at least a portion of the data supplied by the input DMA module, wherein the histogram module is fed by data from the at least processing module that is enabled and/or by the input DMA module. The output DMA module is configured to store the data that are processed by the at least one processing module that is enabled in the memory. Also, an according method is provided.

A method for processing a radar signal is provided. The method may include receiving chirps of a radar signal, sampling the radar signal, dividing the samples that correspond to the chirp of the radar signal into at least two virtual chirps, and processing the radar signal based on the at least two virtual chirps. Also, a corresponding device is provided.

An electronic control unit includes a signal input circuit configured to receive a sensor signal from a radar sensor or from a lidar Sensor and a processing circuit configured to determine a first condition based on a first representation of the sensor signal, and to generate an activation signal in response to the first condition.

The present disclosure relates to a radar device including a first radar-IC for processing first receive signals from first antennas of an antenna array, wherein the first radar-IC is configured to determine a first range-Doppler map based on the first receive signals, and to determine a first subregion of the first range-Doppler map based on criteria of interest. The radar device also includes at least a second radar-IC for processing second receive signals from second antennas of the antenna array, wherein the second radar-IC is configured to determine a second range-Doppler map based on the second receive signals, and to determine a second subregion of the second range-Doppler map based on the criteria of interest. A data interface is configured to forward information indicative of the first and/or the second subregions to a common processor for further processing.

Radar device and method for detecting radar targets

A method for processing a radar signal includes adjusting a processing clock signal, wherein the processing clock signal determines an operation period of a signal processing circuit, wherein the processing clock signal is determined based on a time window, wherein the size of the time window is determined based on the maximum time available for processing a portion of the radar signal and wherein the end of the time window is determined such that it does not occur during an active transmission portion of the radar system.

A cache circuit associated with a hypervisor system is disclosed. The cache circuit comprises a cache memory circuit comprising a plurality of cachelines, wherein each cacheline is configured to store data associated with one or more virtual machines (VMs) of a plurality of VMs associated with the hypervisor system and a plurality of tag array entries respectively associated with the plurality of cachelines. In some embodiments, each tag array entry of the plurality of tag entries comprises a tag field configured to store a tag identifier (ID) that identifies an address of a main memory circuit to which a data stored in the corresponding cacheline is associated and a VM tag field configured to store a VM ID associated with a VM to which the data stored in the corresponding cacheline is associated.

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Romain Ygnace