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COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

Sainath Karlapalem

Kaushik Vasanth

Shift Left Verification of Automotive RADAR

Agenda

• Radar Architecture

• Shift-Left Approach

• V&V Challenges

• Proposed Methodology

• Unified On-Road model

• Case Study

• Tools used

• Benefits

• Future work

EXTERNAL USE2

Automotive RADAR Architecture

EXTERNAL USE

Sensor

3

Shift-Left Approach

IPIP

System

IP

IC

IPIP

System

IC

IP

Sub-IP

Product Product

Specification Validation prior to Implementation Verification

V&V Challenges

EXTERNAL USE5

RF, Analog, and Digital IP developed and verified in isolation

System, IC and IP Verification workflows not integrated

Missing On-Road view in IP/IC/System V&V workflow

Need for realistic reflections for verifying Signal processing Algorithms

Certain road scenarios are dangerous to be tested during field trails

V&V Challenges

EXTERNAL USE6

RF, Analog, and Digital IP developed and verified in isolation

System, IC and IP Verification workflows not integrated

Missing On-Road view in IP/IC/System V&V workflow

Need for realistic reflections for verifying Signal processing Algorithms

Certain road scenarios are dangerous to be tested during field trails

Objective: On-Road Env. in V&V workflows

Proposed Methodology

EXTERNAL USE7

Feature-Level Requirements

System-level Specification

Subsystem Specification

Digital / RF / Analog IP

Scenario-Level

Validation

Integration Testing

Subsystem Verification

Statistical Sensor Model

Radar DSP Model

SV DPI-C Model

IC

IP

SYSTEMS

Unified Road Model

RF

Analog

Digital

EXTERNAL USE11

Road & Actor modelling

EXTERNAL USE13

Case Study → Road Modelling

Case Study → Sensor Modelling

EXTERNAL USE14

Case Study → Emulating Field Trail

EXTERNAL USE15

Case Study → Results

EXTERNAL USE16

Dechirped data of Env..

Magnitude spectrum and Range Caluclation

Range Vs Ground Truth

Tools Used

EXTERNAL USE17

MATLAB

Signal Processing Toolbox

Phased Array System Toolbox

Automated Driving Toolbox

Simulink

Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox

DSP Toolbox

20%

40%

Benefits

EXTERNAL USE18

• Easy to model realistic field environments and verify the design

• Early Design exposure to On-Road Env.→ Virtual Field Trial

• Unified On-Road view across V&V abstractions

• Connect Design-In to IC V&V

20%

40%

Baseband integration into model

Modelling RF Impairments

Modelling Environmental effects

MATLAB-Hw Co-Simulation

Future Scope

EXTERNAL USE19

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