Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of data compression in a radar system comprising, converting a plurality of ranges in a first data form into a polar form, determining a plurality of logarithmic values of the plurality of ranges in the polar form, quantising the plurality of logarithmic values of the plurality of ranges with a first bit width that is fewer than a second bit width in the first data form. According to another aspect, the method further comprising quantizing the logarithmic magnitude part with a third bit width and quantising the logarithmic phase part with a fourth bit width.

Abstract: According to an aspect, method of combining a plurality of powers in an integrated circuit comprising receiving the plurality of powers on corresponding a plurality of primary coils, wherein each primary coil in the plurality of primary coils comprising a coupling part and a non-coupling part, coupling the plurality of powers to a secondary coil through only the coupling part, wherein the coupling part of every primary coil in the plurality of primary coils is inductively coupled to the secondary coil and nullifying power in the non-coupling part of a primary coils in the plurality of primary coil.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a temperature sensor in a chip for determining a chip temperature comprises a first temperature sensor with a first characteristic, a second temperature sensor with a second characteristic, first characteristic being different from the second characteristic, a processor operative to determine the chip temperature is configured to determine a first parameter and a second parameter in the calibration mode and determining the chip temperature using the first parameter and the second parameter in a real time operating mode, wherein, the first parameter is derived from a first relation between the first characteristic and the second characteristic and the second parameter is at least based on first parameter.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a radar system comprising a transmitter operative to transmit a first set of chirps on a single transmit antenna and a second set of chirps on a plurality of transmit antennas, in that, the first set of chirps forming a first part of a chirp frame and the second set of chirps forming a second part of the chirp frame, a first receiver segment operative to generate a first set of parameters from a first set of received chirps that is reflection of the first set of chirps from one or more objects and a second segment operative to generate a second set of parameters from a second set of received chirps that is reflection of the second set of chirps from the one or more objects part of the received chirp frame and the first set of parameters, wherein, first set of parameters and second set of parameters comprise at least one of range doppler and angle of one or more objects.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of determining Doppler in a radar system comprising receiving a set of chirps, sampling in time the set of chirps to generate a set of non-uniform samples with one sample per chirp that is non-uniform in time in each chirp across the set of chirps, generating a first Doppler frequency from the set of non-uniform samples, generating a set of non-aliased Doppler frequencies for the first Doppler frequencies from a corresponding set of hypothesis, determining a first set of angles of arrival for every non-aliased Doppler frequency in the a set of non-aliased Doppler frequencies and selecting a first non-aliased Doppler frequency in the set of non-aliased Doppler frequencies that corresponds to the first angle of arrival with a minimum error in the a set of angles of arrival.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a method of determining two dimensional (2D) angle of arrival (AoA) in a radar system comprising determining one dimensional (1D) AoA to generate a first set of (AoA), selecting a set of valid 1D AoA angles from the first set AoA, and determining the 2D AoA from the set of valid 1D AoA, Wherein the 1D AoA is determined on a first set of data received over a first uniform linear antenna array arranged in the first axis and the 2D AoA is determined on a second set data received over the first and the second MIMO antenna array arranged in the second axis and the set of valid 1D AoA in the first axis. Wherein the second antenna array need not be orthogonal to the first linear antenna array.

Abstract: According to an aspect a low noise electronic voltage regulator comprises a regulating transistor operative to regulate an input DC voltage to provide a regulated DC output voltage, an error amplifier configured to generate an error signal based on a reference voltage and a feedback voltage, wherein the error amplifier receiving the feedback voltage through a feedback loop formed between the regulated DC output voltage and the feedback voltage, and a first amplifier in the feedback loop providing a gain of greater than unity from the regulated DC output voltage and the feedback voltage.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a tank circuit in an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of metal strips forming a first part of a closed contour enclosing a first area, a set of split sections forming a second part and geometrically aligned with the closed contour, and a plurality of capacitors coupled between the split sections to form the tank circuit, wherein a first flux linkage due a current flowing in the set of split sections pass through the first area in the same direction as that of a second flux linkage due to the current flowing in the plurality of metal strips, and the set of split sections and the plurality of metal strips together forming an inductance coil.

Abstract: According to an aspect a low noise electronic voltage regulator comprises a regulating transistor operative to regulate an input DC voltage to provide a regulated DC output voltage, an error amplifier configured to generate an error signal based on a reference voltage and a feedback voltage, wherein the error amplifier receiving the feedback voltage through a feedback loop formed between the regulated DC output voltage and the feedback voltage, and a first amplifier in the feedback loop providing a gain of greater than unity from the regulated DC output voltage and the feedback voltage.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a radar system comprising a transmitter operative to transmit a first set of chirps on a single transmit antenna and a second set of chirps on a plurality of transmit antennas, in that, the first set of chirps forming a first part of a chirp frame and the second set of chirps forming a second part of the chirp frame, a first receiver segment operative to generate a first set of parameters from a first set of received chirps that is reflection of the first set of chirps from one or more objects and a second segment operative to generate a second set of parameters from a second set of received chirps that is reflection of the second set of chirps from the one or more objects part of the received chirp frame and the first set of parameters, wherein, first set of parameters and second set of parameters comprise at least one of range doppler and angle of one or more objects.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a tank circuit in an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of metal strips forming a first part of a closed contour enclosing a first area, a set of split sections forming a second part and geometrically aligned with the closed contour, and a plurality of capacitors coupled between the split sections to form the tank circuit, wherein a first flux linkage due a current flowing in the set of split sections pass through the first area in the same direction as that of a second flux linkage due to the current flowing in the plurality of metal strips, and the set of split sections and the plurality of metal strips together forming an inductance coil.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a phase locked loop system comprises a charge pump (CP) comprising a set of switching transistors and a set of non-switching transistor, in that the set of switching transistors operative at a low break down voltage and a high switching speed compared to that of the set of non-switching transistors, and comparative a voltage comprising a configured to generate a UP pulse when a first plurality of metal strips forming a first part of a closed contour enclosing a first area, and a phase frequency detector (PFD) providing a UP pulse swinging between a VDDL and a VDDH, wherein the PFD is interfaced with the CP such that, the UP pulse drives a first switching transistor in the CP to couple the VDDH to an output terminal through a first non-switching transistor that is biased for charge pump.

Abstract: A method in a time switched multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) radar system comprising, receiving (610) from an antenna array a plurality of data points representing a radar signal reflected from plurality of objects, forming (620) a first set of beams from the plurality of data points, wherein the first set of beams are making a first set angles with a normal to the antenna array, detecting a set of objects (410A-L) from the first set of beams, determining (630) a set of Doppler frequencies of the set of objects, computing (650) a self-velocity representing a velocity of the antenna array from the set of Doppler frequencies and the first set of angles, and correcting (660) the plurality of data points using the self-velocity and a second set of angles to generate plurality of corrected data points.

Abstract: A multichannel radar system comprising a set of antennas each receiving a sequence of chirps reflected from plurality of objects, a range detector generating a set of range bins for each chirp, a beam former operative to generate a set of dominant frequency components from a group of range bins picked from the set of range bins across the set of antennas, a nearness detector for separating the set of dominant frequencies into a first set of dominant frequencies and a second set of dominant frequencies, a frequency subtractor configured to shift the each dominant frequency in the first set of dominant frequencies by its phase by a first value to form a third set of phase shifted dominant frequencies, and a Doppler estimator estimating a Doppler frequency of the each dominant frequency in the set of dominant frequencies from the third set of phase shifted dominant frequencies and the second set of dominant frequencies.

Abstract: An object detection system comprises a first object detection unit detecting an object from a first radio frequency (RF) signal data comprising first set of characteristics representing a first object, a second object detection unit detecting the object from an optical image data and a calibration unit calibrating the first RF signal data from the optical image data, in that, the second object detection unit and the first object detection unit are aligned to detect the object in a first region.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an electronic system (499) operative on a millimeter signal comprises an integrated circuit (401) comprising a first solder ball (420A) and a second solder ball (420B) respectively coupled to a positive and a negative signal interface points (412 and 413) of a differential millimeter signal on a die (410) housed in the integrated circuit (401), wherein the first and the second solder balls (420A and 420B) are positioned one behind other from an edge of the integrated circuit (401) and a three-path coplanar waveguide (CPW) comprising a center path (495B) and a two adjacent paths (495A and 495C) formed on a printed circuit board (PCB) (490) such that the center path (495B) is coupled to the first solder ball that is in front and the two adjacent paths coupled to the second solder ball that is behind the first solder ball.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a tri-level digital to analog converter (DAC) comprises a first set of switches turned on to cause a first analog value with a first error as an output for a first digital value, a second set of switches turned on to cause a second analog value with a second error as the output for a second digital value, wherein, both the first set of switches and the second set of switches are turned on to cause a third analog value, proportional to the first error and the second error, as the output for a digital value equal to zero, and both the first set of switches and the second set of switches are turned off to cause a fourth analog value equal to zero as the output for a fourth digital value representing a reset state.

Abstract: According to an aspect of present disclosure, a phase shifter for providing a desired phase shift to a very high frequency signal fabricated as part of the an integrated circuit comprises a first coil segment and a second coil segment together forming an inductor of first inductance value, a first capacitor of first capacitance value electrically connected parallel the inductor, a second capacitor of second capacitance value electrically connected between the first coil segment and the second coil segment and a resistor of a first resistance value electrically connected parallel to the second capacitor, in that, the inductor, first capacitor, second capacitor and the resistor together operative as a phase shifter such that when a input signal of a first frequency is presented across the first capacitor, the output signal across the resistor is phase shifted version of the input signal shifted in phase by a first angle.

Abstract: A multichannel radar system comprising a set of antennas each receiving a sequence of chirps reflected from plurality of objects, a range detector generating a set of range bins for each chirp, a beam former operative to generate a set of dominant frequency components from a group of range bins picked from the set of range bins across the set of antennas, a nearness detector for separating the set of dominant frequencies into a first set of dominant frequencies and a second set of dominant frequencies, a frequency subtractor configured to shift the each dominant frequency in the first set of dominant frequencies by its phase by a first value to form a third set of phase shifted dominant frequencies, and a Doppler estimator estimating a Doppler frequency of the each dominant frequency in the set of dominant frequencies from the third set of phase shifted dominant frequencies and the second set of dominant frequencies.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an electronic system (499) operative on a millimeter signal comprises an integrated circuit (401) comprising a first solder ball (420A) and a second solder ball (420B) respectively coupled to a positive and a negative signal interface points (412 and 413) of a differential millimeter signal on a die (410) housed in the integrated circuit (401), wherein the first and the second solder balls (420A and 420B) are positioned one behind other from an edge of the integrated circuit (401) and a three-path coplanar waveguide (CPW) comprising a center path (495B) and a two adjacent paths (495A and 495C) formed on a printed circuit board (PCB) (490) such that the center path (495B) is coupled to the first solder ball that is in front and the two adjacent paths coupled to the second solder ball that is behind the first solder ball.