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NXP rolls high-performance radar reference platform

NXP rolls high-performance radar reference platform

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By Christoph Hammerschmidt



Current automotive market analysis projects that by 2020, radar technology will be in 50% of all newly produced cars. The safety related benefits of automotive radar, new autonomous vehicle development requirements and emerging safety requirements from organizations such as the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), have triggered rapid growth with steep implementation challenges for car makers and other radar focused developers. Adoption of these once premium safety features into mainstream production lines is fueling a need for faster time to market

NXPs new reference platform, the RDK-S32R274, combines the company’s S32R processors, RF Transceiver and Antenna design in a very compact yet powerful device. The solution is the only currently available automotive-grade radar development platform designed to meet the stringent functional, performance, and safety requirements of the industry, claims Roger Keen, Head of Product Marketing at NXP. This solution is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of radar into production vehicles and includes a full ecosystem of tools that aim to lower development costs and spur radar application adoption worldwide.

The NXP radar solution, featuring the S32R27 processor, the TEF810x CMOS transceiver, and the FS8410 Power management IC, is designed to help customers accelerate time to market by lowering the barriers of entry to radar application development with hardware, software and tools that ease radar implementations.


Built in collaboration with Colorado Engineering, the RDK-S32R274 radar solution is targeted to help developers rapidly prototype high-performance automotive radar. The open platform uses a modular architecture and includes a processor and a transceiver chip along with a radar software development kit. Expansion and antenna modules can be optimized to create a customized development platform suited to specific customer application requirements.

One of the factors that distinguish a radar processor from a general-purpose DSP or microcontroller is its optimization for low power consumption, Keen explained. NXPs S32R27 and S32R37 therefore offer 10x performance/watt improvement over a traditional DSP by integrating highly-efficient radar accelerators. This enables longer range, higher resolution and accuracy for safety critical applications such as collision avoidance, lane change assist, autonomous emergency braking.

The automotive grade Radar Software Development Kit provides customers a comprehensive radar algorithm library to build and optimize applications without having to invest resources to hand tune accelerator software. NXP’s ecosystem of compilers, development environments, MCALS, and both free and commercial RTOS support provides customers the tools needed for faster development.

The S32R27 and the S32R37 are available now for all customers worldwide. The RDK-S32R274 can be pre-ordered now and will start shipping by end of November.

 

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