LAS VEGAS- NXP Semiconductors announced a new industry-first 28nm RFCMOS automotive radar one-chip IC family for next generation ADAS and autonomous driving systems. The new SAF85xx one-chip family combines NXP’s high performance radar sensing and processing technologies into a single device.
It offers tier ones and OEMs new flexibility in addressing short, medium and long range radar applications. It serves ever more challenging NCAP safety requirements. The introduction of the one-chip radar family has added to NXP’s leading radar portfolio. It built on more than 15 years of technology leadership. Designed to surround drivers in a cocoon of safety to reduce accidents.
DENSO Corporation, which works at the forefront of radar technology, has embraced NXP’s latest innovation as its lead customer.
“This advanced radar sensing technology plays an essential part in accelerating the development of next-generation ADAS. We know DENSO will extend its leadership position in ADAS by leveraging NXP’s compact high-performance SAF85xx radar SoC.”
Features:
NXP’s family of automotive radar SoCs is comprised of high-performance radar transceivers. It integrates multi-core radar processors which are built on NXP’s S32R radar compute platform. The SAF85xx offers twice the RF performance and accelerates radar signal processing by up to 40%. The one-chip family enables 4D sensing for corner and front radar, serving critical safety ADAS applications. Applications include automated emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, cross-traffic alert and automated parking. OEMs will benefit from the increased flexibility it offers in meeting the expanding NCAP safety requirements.
When combined with power management and connectivity solutions from NXP, the system solution flexibly addresses a wide variety of today’s and tomorrow’s OEM needs. Developers can take advantage of the S32R family’s seamless performance scalability as well as its software and hardware design reuse benefits.
“Our new radar one-chip family enables the reliable long range detection of objects and separation of small objects next to larger ones, like a fast-moving motorcycle next to cars and trucks on a busy multi-lane highway. Its small form factor allows our customers to build radar sensor modules that are up to 30 percent smaller. It enables global suppliers of ADAS systems, like DENSO, to expand the potential of radar safety.“
NXP’s 3rd Generation RFCMOS Radar Platform
- Built on the proven RFCMOS expertise of NXP
- Highly integrated 77 GHz radar smart transceiver SoC contains four high-performance transmitters, four receivers, a multi-core radar processor. Along with it, it also include with hardware accelerator, Gigabit Ethernet communication interface and memory
- Targets the Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL B) requirements according to the ISO 26262 functional safety standard. Additionally, the automotive cybersecurity standard ISO/SAE 21434 to meet the requirements of the automotive industry for safety and security.
Availability
The SAF85xx one-chip family is sampling now for alpha customers. Meanwhile, for more information, please visit: www.nxp.com/saf85xx
NXP’s Radar
XP’s new SAF85xx radar family builds on top of NXP’s complete suite of radar sensor solutions. It can surround vehicles in a 360-degree safety cocoon. The scalable suite of sensing solutions is tailored to cover car OEMs’ ever-diversifying use cases and architectures. The S32R platform offers a common architecture for software reuse and speedy development along with a highly performant hardware security engine, OTA update support and compliance with the newest cybersecurity standards.
