Feel Everything! Anda Technology officially releases 60GHz radar SoC chip

Recently, Anda Technology held an online new product launch conference with the theme of "Feel Everything!" and officially released its low-power, low-cost 60GHz CMOS radar SoC (System on Chip) chip "ADT6101". This is another highly integrated, low-cost, and low-power millimeter-wave radar SoC chip brought to the industry by Anda Technology after the release of the 77GHz 2T2R architecture CMOS radar SoC chip in April 2020.

ADT6101 adopts 55nm CMOS technology, which has great advantages in process cost. The ADT6101 chip contains 2 transmit channels and 2 receive channels, and has a highly configurable frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) waveform generator and a four-channel analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to sample the four-channel IQ intermediate frequency signals. At the same time, it also integrates a digital signal processing unit (DSP) circuit and a microprocessor (MCU), effectively saving development resources, and has the advantages of low power consumption and high energy efficiency; a single-chip solution can greatly reduce the complexity of the customer's radar system and the cost of multi-chip interconnection.

ADT6101 operates in the license-free 57-64GHz frequency band and integrates a complete FMCW radar system on a single chip. Compared with some manufacturers' radar solutions at 10GHz, 24GHz and 5GHz, the 60GHz frequency band has a bandwidth of more than 4GHz and has better distance resolution and detection accuracy. In addition, ADT6101 adopts the mature 2T2R architecture in the ADT3102 chip. Anda Technology provides customers with a complete turnkey solution, which greatly shortens the development time and difficulty of radar customers in products.

The ADT6101 chip integrates SPI, I2C, UART and CAN-FD interfaces, and is designed to meet the AEC-Q100 standard, supporting various application scenarios such as indoor, in-vehicle, and industrial. Similar to the ADT3102, in order to meet the requirements of battery-powered scenarios and system always-on (Always On), the ADT6101 supports ultra-low power system operating modes and signal processing algorithms. The power consumption of the ADT6101 is 20μA in standby (Sleep) state and 40mW in radar detection (On) state.

Due to the advantages of high integration, low cost, and battery-powered scenarios, ADT6101 can be widely used in consumer electronics products such as presence sensing, trajectory tracking, people counting, vital signs detection, smart parking, and smart home, and its market prospects are very promising. In order to reduce the customer's product development and launch cycle, Anda provides a complete set of turnkey solutions such as standard antenna and radome reference design, mass production test system, application framework engineering (pre-set OTA, typical application examples, data processing strategy library), which can help new customers launch products within 3 months.

Founded at the end of 2016, Anda Technology is a fabless IC design company focusing on the research and development of CMOS millimeter-wave radar chip products, providing products and services for the fields of automobiles, drones, smart homes, smart transportation, etc. The core R&D team comes from companies such as Nitero, AMD, Samsung, MediaTek, etc. It is one of the earliest teams in the world to use CMOS technology to develop millimeter-wave applications, and has mastered the international cutting-edge CMOS RF chip technology. Anda Technology currently has R&D and innovation centers in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Melbourne, Australia, with a R&D team of more than 50 people.

Feel Everything! We hope that Anda's ADT6101 chip will allow millimeter-wave radar to enter thousands of households and sense everything!