Automotive Radar

Would you pay a $2,200 premium on your next vehicle for adaptive cruise control (ACC)?  What if you could pay $500 (or less) and enjoy a far more capable solution that included collision mitigation and other cutting edge functionality?

To stay competitive, automakers are in a perpetual arms-race with option packages. ACC systems, along with other “spatial awareness” aids for assistance with blind-spots and parking, are migrating from luxury models toward mass market vehicles. Successful completion of this transition requires a significant reduction in these systems’ costs.

Phiar’s technology can deliver substantial cost savings in several ways:

1. Eliminate costly compound semiconductor materials. (GaAs and SiGe wafers will always be more costly than CMOS wafers.)
2. Eliminate flip-chip assembly of analog chips with the underlying CMOS electronics. Phiar radar transceivers are integral to their CMOS “brains” and are added before the CMOS chip is packaged.
3. Integrate antennas. Phiar antennas are integral to the same monolithic chip as the Phiar metal-insulator components and CMOS ICs. Phiar eliminates another part and drives system integrity higher.

Phiar’s demonstrated capability to manufacture its devices on RF-on-flex provides some interesting options for our partners. For example, a “ribbon” of arrayed radar transceivers could inexpensively manufactured and “wrapped” around an entire vehicle in existing plastic trim pieces.

Are you interested in partnering with Phiar to develop innovative radar solutions like these? Please contact us to begin a dialog.