Automotive multi-mode cascaded radar data processing embedded system

Abstract

Radars play a major role in providing sensing capabilities for active safety automotive applications. Multi-transmitter and multi-receiver radar systems are becoming popular in order to detect and classify objects in complex urban driving scenarios. This work describes hardware and software modules designed for a multi-mode cascaded radar data processing system. We derive system configuration and data processing requirements based on current state of the art and future multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar processing requirements. The proposed system is expected to meet these requirements with ≤75% AWR12x and <; 60% TDA2x utilization.