Efficient programming model for real-time radar sequencing in a radar device

US12248088B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Infineon Technologies AG · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Findenig · Linz, AT
• Bernhard Greslehner-Nimmervoll · Niederaich, AT
• Grigory Itkin · Munich, DE
• Markus Lang · Munich, DE
• Ulrich Moeller · Holzkirchen, DE
• Martin Wiessflecker · Graz, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2021
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2025
• Expiry date: Jul 2, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S13/02
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A radar semiconductor chip includes a radar circuit component configured to generate at least part of a frequency-modulated ramp signal or process at least part of a reflected frequency-modulated ramp signal according to a control parameter; a memory configured to store a sequencing program associated with regulating the control parameter, wherein the sequencing program specifies a first data source, external to the sequencing program, that is configured to provide a first data value corresponding to the control parameter; and a decoder configured to read the sequencing program, access the first data value from the first data source specified by the sequencing program, derive a first control value for the control parameter from the first data value, and provide the first control value to the radar circuit component. The radar circuit component regulates a controlled circuit function in accordance with the control parameter based on the first control value.