One of the leading causes of automobile accidents is the slow reaction
of the driver while responding to a hazardous situation.
State-of-the-art wireless electronics can automate several driving
functions, leading to significant reduction in human error and
improvement in vehicle safety. With continuous transistor scaling,
silicon fabrication technology now has the potential to substantially
reduce the cost of automotive radar sensors. This book bridges an
existing gap between information available on dependable
system/architecture design and circuit design. It provides the
background of the field and detailed description of recent research and
development of silicon-based radar sensors. System-level requirements
and circuit topologies for radar transceivers are described in detail.
Holistic approaches towards designing radar sensors are validated with
several examples of highly-integrated radar ICs in silicon technologies.
Circuit techniques to design millimeter-wave circuits in silicon
technologies are discussed in depth.