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DICE receives the Upper Austrian Innovation Award 2010
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2010 - September
|  On the 22th
of September 2010 DICE & Co KG received the Upper Austrian federal
state award 2010 in the category large companies. DICE competed with
its world first highly integrated 77GHz radar transceiver family RASICTM - "Radar System IC for Automotive Application".
Starting in 2004 DICE was put in charge to ramp up its radar
transceiver activities. Now, after 5 years of development work the
Radar Team in Linz succeeded to realize the world first highly
integrated 77GHz radar-transceiver well ahead of its worldwide
competitors. The system solution presented with the RASICTM product family is a milestone on the path towards cost efficient radar sensors for the automotive industry.
RASIC™ based modules allow system integrators (component suppliers in the
automotive industry such as Bosch, Denso, Delphi,
etc.) to substantially reduce the size and cost of their radar systems. Those
advantages are also acknowledged by leading customers of first generation radar
ICs. Says Dr. Dirk Freundt, Bosch’s LRR3 project manager, “The LRR3 radar
system was especially developed for high volume driver assistance systems and
as a first is based on SiGe-semiconductor technology. Using the innovative
Infineon radar-chip the functionality of the Bosch sensor was substantially
increased despite avoiding expensive specialized semiconductors and at the same
time system costs were reduced. Bosch also intends to open up the middle class
and compact car market for the radar sensor and its functionality. Soon it
could become part of the standard equipment.”
Quo
Vadis Radar
According
to Strategy Analytics 2.3 million vehicles will be using radar based safety
systems by 2011. Already by 2014 7% of all new build cars could be equipped
with such a system. Key technology to enable this increased market penetration
are SiGe based radar sensors allowing cost reduction and higher system
performance.
Safety
relevant applications such as emergency brake assists, pre-crash detection and
reverse radar will be the main boost for this market. Radar based safety
systems are able to increase effectiveness of conventional systems used today
(safety belts, airbags, headrests...). For
example, at side impact the effectiveness of the side-airbags are limited
because they are activated to late. In this case a radar based active safety
system can achieve significant improvements. The sensor can identify an
approaching target early and if impact becomes unavoidable the airbag can be
fired at the optimum instant. In future active safety systems will compensate
the reduction of passive safety due to reduced weight of the vehicle. This
trend is visible already today in the market segment of hybrid and electric
cars.
Figure: Radar-team Linz
with Audi A8 equipped with two LRR3 sensors.
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