A phased array frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar system configured to transmit, using a plurality of antennas, a plurality of chirps, wherein each chirp within the plurality of chirps includes at least one temporal characteristic, and wherein the at least one temporal characteristic is pseudo-random for a portion of the plurality of chirps, to receive, using the plurality of antennas, a plurality of chirp reflections off one or more targets, to create, using a mixer, an intermediate frequency based on the plurality of chirps and the plurality of chirp reflections, and to determine, based on the intermediate frequency and the at least one temporal characteristic, a target attribute associated with the one or more targets.

A semiconductor chip comprising at least one transmit channel and/or at least one receive channel for radar signals and also a sequencing circuit is proposed. In this case, the sequencing circuit is configured centrally to determine a sequencing scheme for time-dependent functions of the transmit channel and/or of the receive channel and to drive circuit elements of the transmit channel and/or of the receive channel in accordance with the sequencing scheme.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment receives a sliding window of measurements associated with a radar signal transmitted by the UE; determines that a user is within a threshold distance of the UE, wherein the threshold distance is determined to be a first distance when an energy measurement, associated with the radar signal, indicates an energy reduction satisfying a threshold energy reduction, or wherein the threshold distance is determined to be a second distance when the sliding window of measurements indicates an amount of energy variation satisfying a threshold amount of energy variation associated with the radar signal; and performs, based at least in part on determining that the user is within the threshold distance, an action associated with a communication signal of the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A wireless system includes a local oscillator (LO) signal generation circuit, a receiver (RX) circuit, and a calibration circuit. The LO signal generation circuit generates an LO signal according to a reference clock. The LO signal generation circuit includes an active oscillator. The active oscillator generates the reference clock, wherein the active oscillator includes at least one active component, and does not include an electromechanical resonator. The RX circuit generates a down-converted RX signal by performing down-conversion upon an RX input signal according to the LO signal. The calibration circuit generates a frequency calibration control output according to a signal characteristic of the down-converted RX signal, and outputs the frequency calibration control output to the LO signal generation circuit. The LO signal generation circuit adjusts an LO frequency of the LO signal in response to the frequency calibration control output.

An electronic device may include radar circuitry. Control circuitry may calibrate the radar circuitry using a multi-tone calibration signal. A first mixer may upconvert the calibration signal for transmission by a transmit antenna. A de-chirp mixer may mix the calibration signal output by the first mixer with the calibration signal as received by a receive antenna or loopback path to produce a baseband multi-tone calibration signal. The baseband signal will be offset from DC by the frequency gap. This may prevent DC noise or other system effects from interfering with the calibration signal. The control circuitry may sweep the first mixer over the radio frequencies of operation of the radar circuitry to estimate the power droop and phase shift of the radar circuitry based on baseband calibration signal. Distortion circuitry may distort transmit signals used in spatial ranging operations to invert the estimated power droop and phase shift.

Exemplary aspects are directed to or involve a radar transceiver to transmit signal and receive reflected radar signals via a communication channel. The exemplary method includes radar receiver data processing circuitry that may be used to differentiate a subset of representations of the received signals. This differentiation may be used to select signals that are more indicative of target(s) having a given range than other ones of the received signals. The received signal's representations may then be compressed by using variable-mantissa floating-point numbers having mantissa values that vary based, at least in part, on at least one strength characteristic of the respective representations.

A radar apparatus is provided having an antenna that has a frequency-dependent directional characteristic. The radar apparatus includes a transmitter circuit designed to generate a first frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) frequency ramp having a first center frequency and at least one second FMCW frequency ramp having a second center frequency, which is different than the first center frequency. The transmitter circuit is configured to drive the antenna using the first FMCW frequency ramp to produce a first directional characteristic for the at least one antenna, and to drive the antenna using the at least one second FMCW frequency ramp to produce a second directional characteristic for the antenna, where the second directional characteristic is different from the first directional characteristic. It is thus possible to exploit an antenna squinting effect in order to increase an angular resolution.

[Problems to be Solved] To provide a radar device that is able to instantly detect a location of an observed object by using an antenna capable of receiving a reflected wave from all directions.

[Solution] A radar device 101 of the present invention includes one or more omni-directional antennae 104 and a controller 102, wherein the controller 102 is able to perform a process of at least the one or more omni-directional antennae 104 transmitting a transmitting wave T; a process of at least the one or more omni-directional antennae 104 receiving a reflected wave R, at least the one or more omni-directional antennae 104 being the same as and/or different from the omni-directional antenna 104 that transmits the transmitting wave T and the reflected wave R being generated by the transmitting wave T illuminating an observed object; and a process of instantly estimating a location of the observed object by using time from transmission of the transmitting wave T to reception of the reflected wave R and/or by using a frequency of the transmitting wave and a frequency of the reflected wave.

The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting a fault state at an FMCW-based fill level measuring device, including performing two reference measurements successively in time, a first reference measurement signal and a second reference measurement signal, using the filling level measuring device under a predefined reference measurement condition. In each of the two reference measurement signals a characteristic parameter is determined, wherein a change in the characteristic parameter over time is determined by comparing the two reference measurement signals. A fault state is detected when the change in the characteristic parameter exceeds a predefined maximum characteristic parameter change.

A method for a radar system is described. In accordance with one example implementation, the method comprises generating a frequency-modulated RF oscillator signal and feeding the RF oscillator signal to a first transmitting channel and a second transmitting channel. The method further comprises generating a first RF transmission signal in the first transmitting channel based on the RF oscillator signal, emitting the first RF transmission signal via a first transmitting antenna, receiving a first RF radar signal via a receiving antenna, and converting the first RF radar signal to a baseband, as a result of which a first baseband signal is obtained, which has a first signal component having a first frequency and a first phase, where the first signal component is assignable to direct crosstalk from the first transmitting antenna. This procedure is repeated for the second transmitting channel.