Semiconductor IPs
Analog and Digital Silicon IP Catalog
NOVELIC’s analog and mixed-signal IPs enable robust solutions with a high degree of vertical integration for automotive, consumer, industrial, and medical markets. Our expertise is in RF (up to 30 GHz) and mmWave (30 – 300 GHz) IC design, as well as high-voltage and power management ICs. We offer IP licensing, as well as the development of tailored semiconductor solutions from system design to GDSII.
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Analog IPs
IP: PLL607 59.5-70.5 GHz RF transmitter with fully integrated FMCW synthesizer front-end for 60 GHz ISM band radar applications
The PLL607 is a fully programmable radar module for commercial applications.
The system consists of the VCO (voltage controlled oscillator), PLL (phased-locked loop), programmable FMCW multichirp generator, APD (active power divider), Tx transmitter and I/Q LO Rx outputs for receiver chain.
Module & Silicon Details
- 59.5 GHz to 70.5 GHz Tx output
- Supply voltage 3.3 V and 1.2 V
- Supply current typ. 220 mA
- Power dissipation typ. 0.72 W
- Tx Power typ. +8 dBm
- Fully programmable Tx and Rx LO power
- 250 MHz reference clock
- Low-frequency Tx/32 output for testing
- Complex modulation waveforms
- Storage of up to 15 configurations
- SPI and dedicated control
Target Applications:
- Short-range radar – parking sensor
- Gesture sensing
- Seat occupancy detection
- Driver fatigue detection
- Vital signs monitoring
- Frequency synthesizer
IP: NRC60A1 60 GHz 1Tx-1Rx mmWave Radar
This FMCW transceiver chip is at the heart of the 55–64 GHz fully integrated radar module. The silicon achieves sub-2-cm spatial resolutions and enables cutting-edge modulation rates higher than 200 MHz/μs. The radar reaches the leading edge 10 GHz chirp bandwidths.
It is intended for short-range applications, even below the 5-cm range. This 60 GHz IC can be used as a basis for a custom nTx-mRx radar transceiver IC.
Module & Silicon Details
- 1Tx-1Rx FMCW Radar Sensor Chip
- Integrated high-resolution fractional-N PLL
- Chirp non-linearity less than 0.01% and distance resolution less than 2cm
- Analog baseband processing chain (PGA, LPF, HPF, Buffers)
- SPI Slave
- Antenna-on-PCB or Antenna-in-Package
Target Applications:
- Kick & Gesture Sensing
- 1D Range Sensing
- Child Presence Detection
- Velocity
- Rear sensor for motorcycles
60 GHz 1Tx 1 Rx Test Chip (in the middle of the module) being integrated into 60 GHz mm-Wave Test Module
DatasheetIP: NRC60A2 2Tx-4Rx mm-Wave radar front end with PLL for consumer, industrial, medical, and automotive markets
Module & Silicon Details
- 2Tx-4Rx FMCW Radar Sensor Chip
- 54.5-64.5 GHz, 2.2 x 2.2mm
- Antenna-on-PCB or Antenna-in-Package
Target Applications:
- Kick & Gesture Sensing
- 1D Range Sensing
- Child Presence Detection
- Velocity
RF IP: NRC79A1 1Tx-1Rx mmWave radar frontend with PLL for the automotive market
Module & Silicon Details
- 1Tx-1Rx FMCW Radar Sensor Chip
- 77-81 GHz, 2.7 x 2.4mm
- Antenna-on-PCB or Antenna-in-Package
Target Applications:
- Kick sensing
- Gesture sensing
- 1D range and velocity sensing
AMS, RF, and mmWave IC Design Skills
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for a better user experience)| Work domain | Tools |
|---|---|
| System Design | MATLAB and Simulink, Keysight ADS Ptolemy, Verilog-AMS |
| AMS IC design | Cadence Design Flow Tools |
| RF and mmWave IC design | Keysight ADS, Cadence Spectre RF, Keysight Momentum, ANSYS HFSS, Sonnet Suites |
| IC Verification | Mentor Calibre, Cadence Assura Physical Verification, Cadence PVS |
| Programming | C/C++, Perl, Python, Cadence SKILL, Cadence Ocean |
Digital IPs
IP: Radar DSP accelerator attached to a custom-generated RISC-V-based core
hypr_risc is a hardware radar DSP accelerator attached to a custom-generated RISC-V-based core. We achieve the highest possible DSP speed by generating the optimal solution for your application based on desired input and output parameters. hypr_risc is highly configurable to provide the best answer to performance, size, and power consumption requirements and limitations.
Applicable to everything from small, low-power chips to high-performance multi-core application processors.
Functions
- 2D-FFT (Range, Doppler)
- 1D CFAR
- 2D CFAR
- Single-path Delay Feedback (SDF)-FFT
Target Applications:
- High-speed ADAS processing with many radars
