Workshop Background

This workshop, the fourth in a series, aims to address the status of millimeterwave devices for automotive radar sensors and what is required to drive their costs down to achieve consumer acceptable price levels.

Since the last workshop in October 2004, significant changes have been and are taking place in this equipment sector. Firstly, the FCC has endorsed changes in the use of the 76-81 bands as well as the 24 GHz band allocations for this application although the extent to which these will encourage a commitment to each of the bands worldwide is still subject to question.  As many as 10 short range radar sensors will be needed for future vehicles.

This workshop will address the implications of these changes for the automotive markets, technology  and equipment and will explore ways, both business and technological, to stimulate lowering the costs and increasing the volumes of the sensors.

Automakers continue to look for low cost solutions which can survive the very stringent demands of electronics at such high frequencies.  A key element of this is the availability of low cost millimeterwave semiconductors and integration and packaging technologies.

If your business is anywhere in the supply chain for future millimeterwave automotive or communications applications, you MUST actively participate in this unique IWPC Interactive Technical Workshop.

Workshop Goal

The GOAL of this workshop, is to bring together senior leaders from THE ENTIRE SUPPLY CHAIN to facilitate and stimulate breakthrough thinking on emerging technologies and manufacturing methods which, when coupled with market needs and timings, and key system cost drivers, can substantially drive down the cost of the equipment needed for millimeterwave automotive radars.

In short, the goal of this workshop is to create an open, interactive environment, where the entire supply chain can communicate, network, share technology requirements and capabilities, and achieve mutually desired goals.

Tuesday Evening September 19, 2006

7:00 PM

Social and Networking 

Reception & Registration

At Hotel

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

7:00 AM

Breakfast & Registration

8:00 AM

Opening Remarks

8:15 AM

Introductions

Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process

OVERVIEW of MILLIMETERWAVE AUTOMOTIVE REQUIREMENTS

9:00 AM

General Motors Keynote

General Motors will address the key Business, Market and Technology Issues from their point of view in the supply chain and will review changes in the regulatory environment.

• What are they looking to happen in the area of automotive sensors and what are their expectations from the Sensor supply chain?

• What are kinds of Automotive Sensors and what are typical performance requirements?

  • ACC?

  • Pre-crash applications?

  • Side-looking?

  • New functions?

• What is GM's perception of the status of regulatory, spectrum and legal issues? How does the US situation differ from other global players?

• Market Issues

  • What are the volume projections over time? 

  • What is their expected cost target evolution over time?

  • What do they see as the main market drivers?

  • Do they have plans to stimulate this market growth?  e.g. Working with insurance companies?  Subsidizing early adopters?

• What competitive alternatives are they considering?

  • Status and prospectus for 24 GHz systems

  • Status and prospectus for 76-77 and 77-81 GHz systems?  Domestic and international?

  • Migration strategies if any from 24 GHz to 77/79 GHz

  • Infrared

  • etc.

• What other key groups are playing a role in auto sensor development  (e.g. SARA, ETSI, EU, ADARS II, etc.)

Short Range Radar (SRR) Enabled Automotive Safety Systems, A North American Perspective (2006-2020)

Martin A. Hogan

Director, Integrated Safety Innovation Program

General Motors

10:00 AM

BREAK  

10:30 AM

Views of Other Auto Makers

Other Auto Makers will be invited to address the key Business, Market and Technology Issues from their point of view and how they might differ or expand on the GM views.

Issues to be addressed will be as for the keynote.

First-to-Market Experience with Short Range Radar

and

Stefan Gleissner

Dr. Jörg Breuer

HONDA Milliwave Radar System and Its Application

Toyohei (Tony) Nakajima

Senior Chief Engineer

Honda R & D Co. Ltd

11:30 AM

NETWORKING LUNCH  

 Hosted by GM

12:30 PM

STATUS OF AUTOMOTIVE STANDARDS, REGULATORY AND ADVISORY

• What is the current situation with respect to frequency allocations for automotive sensors worldwide?

• Is international harmonization possible?

• What are the challenges in moving forward?

• Who are the key players internationally and what are their positions? 

Automotive Short Range Radar - Frequency Regulatory Aspects Overview

Gerhard Rollman

Chairman

Short Range Automotive Radar Frequency Allocation (SARA)

1:00 PM

PANEL

AUTOMOBILE OEMS

AND

AUTOMOTIVE STANDARDS, REGULATORY AND ADVISORY ORGANIZATIONS

General Motors
and
additional OEMs
PLUS
AUTOMOTIVE STANDARDS, REGULATORY AND ADVISORY ORGANIZATIONS

• General  Motors

  • Osman Altan (TBC)

• Ford

  • Lawrence Stopczynski

  • Bob Kwiecinski

• Honda

  • Toyohei Nakajima  

• DaimlerChrysler

  • Josef Wenger 

• IIHS--Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

  • Kim Hazelbaker

• SARA

  • Gerhard Rollman

• NHTSA

  • Jack Ference

2:30 PM

BREAK

3:00 PM

TIER 1 AUTOMOTIVE SENSOR SYSTEM INTEGRATORS

• What are the current features and challenges demanded in radar sensor systems from auto OEMs and what are the vehicle integration challenges?

• What options exist to meet the range and angular resolutions required?  Single antenna vs. multiple sensor solutions? What is the implication for the sensor fusion system?

• What are the relative pros and cons of 24 GHz vs 79 GHz for these applications?

• How will the proposed changes in and timing for spectrum allocations internationally affect their implementation schedules and plans? What are their views and recommendations on the frequency allocations worldwide?

• What kinds of sensors are expected, planned or requested and what are the main challenges to their sensor suppliers?

• What do they see as the main challenge to cost reduction?  RF chipsets, signal processors, antennas, packaging, etc.?

• The OEMs would like to reach as low as $15 per sensor in future.  Is this possible?  Under what conditions?

• What technologies, RF and Digital,  are considered critical for each application and how do they prioritize them?

  • Collision Warning Systems

  • Adaptive cruise control

  • Side detection systems

  • Reverse warning detectors

  • Lane control systems

  • Short Range High Definition Radars

• What are the relative pros and cons of 24 GHz vs 79 GHz for these applications?

• What other millimeterwave applications do they see as having potential to help them lower their costs?

• What is their wish from the technology providers down chain?

Future Low Cost Radar Sensor Systems - Requirements and Challenges

Lutz Kuehnke

Manager Radar Sensors

EBS-PC Driver Assistance Systems

Continental Automotive Systems

Cost Drivers in ACC and PSS Application Projects

Dieter Hoetzer
Engineering Manager

Robert Bosch

Radar System Architecture and Cost Tradeoffs

Stephen Alland

Manager of Advanced Radar Systems

Delphi

Radar Sensors for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems - Future Features

Martin Kunert

Project Manager Research and External Affairs

Siemens VDO

Automotive Radar Sensors - From Comfort to Safety - What does the world want to pay for?

Patrice Mallejac

Project Manager

TRW Autocruise

5:30 PM

Adjourn  

7:00 PM

Dinner 

in style

Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel

Thursday, September 21, 2006

7:00 AM

Breakfast  

MILLIMETERWAVE ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

8:00 AM

MILLIMETERWAVE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES

• Advances In Millimeterwave Semiconductor Technologies

  • SiGe

  • CMOS

  • GaAs

  • InP

• Typical Millimeterwave functional blocks

  • Sensor Devices

  • Low noise Devices and MMICs

  • Power amplifier devices and MMICs

  • Receiver/Transmitter Chips 

  • Switching and tuning elements

  • Integrated Systems

• Millimeterwave Semiconductor Device Modules and Packaging Technologies

  • High Frequency Packages

  • Module Techniques

  • Chip attachment techniques

  • Linearization techniques and modules

  • Receiver/Transmitter Modules

• EMI and Environment Shielding and Packaging

Silicon Based Semiconductor Technologies for Automotive Radar Sensors in the 24 GHz and 76-81 GHz Range

Rudolph Lachner

Director/RF Technology

Infineon Technologies AG

Semiconductors in Automotive Radar Systems

Niket Jindal

Strategy & Business Development

Transportation & Standard Products Group

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc

Remote Tunable Single Transceiver MMIC for Ka-band , V-band  and W-band applications

Dr. Tim Childs

President

TLC Precision Wafer

MMIC Solutions for Automotive Radars : From Current Production Toward Large Volume Production

Marc Camiade

Product Line Manager

United Monolithic Semiconductor

Advanced GaN Mm-Wave Technology: Can it Challenge Si and Conventional III-V Technologies

Dr. Primit Parikh

Manager Development

Santa Barbara Technology Center

Cree Inc.

10:00 AM  

NETWORKING BREAK

10:30 AM

MILLIMETERWAVE ANTENNAS, MODULES, and PACKAGING
(CONT'D)

High-Volume MM-Wave 3-D System-in-Package Technologies for Lowest Cost

Ed Stoneham

Advanced Technology Director

EndWave Corporation

Advanced Packaging Materials for Automotive Radar

Keith Easler

Market Development Automotive Applications Engineer

Kyocera Corporation

Development of Future Low Cost 80GHz Short Range Automotive Radar Front-Ends

Michael Salter

Department Manager

System Integration

Acreo AB

LTCC Material System for Low Cost Millimeter Wave Radar Applications

Tim Mobley

Applications Engineer

Microcircuit Materials

DuPont

12:10 PM

 LUNCH

1:10 PM

MILLIMETERWAVE AUTOMOTIVE SENSOR SUPPLIERS

• What kinds of sensors are being developed and what are their main challenges?

• What are the current features and challenges demanded in radar sensors? From tier 1 equipment providers and from auto OEMs?

• What are the implications on the sensor design of single antenna vs. multiple sensor solutions? 

• How will the proposed changes in and timing for spectrum allocations internationally affect their implementation schedules and plans?

• What do they see as the main challenge to cost reduction?  RF chipsets, signal processors, antennas, packaging, etc.?

• The OEMs would like to reach as low as $15 per sensor in future.  Is this possible?  Under what conditions?

• What technologies, RF, Digital, and antenna are considered critical for each application and how do they prioritize them?

  • Collision Warning Systems

  • Adaptive cruise control

  • Side detection systems

  • Reverse warning detectors

  • Lane control systems

  • Short Range High Definition Radars

• What other millimeterwave applications do they see as having potential to help them lower their costs?

• What is their wish from the technology providers down chain?

• What are the relative pros and cons of 24 GHz vs 79 GHz for these applications?

Challenges in Achieving Very Low Cost Millimeterwave Automotive Sensors

Carl Luck

Product Line Manager

M/A-COM - Tyco Electronics

RoadEye's New Architecture for

77 GHz Radars--How a Seemingly Minor Insight Reduced the Cost of a 77 GHz Front-end by a Factor of 100

Amir Shmuel

Chief Engineer

Groeneveld Co., RoadEye

2:10 PM

PANEL

TIER 1'S and SENSOR SUPPLIERS

The Tier 1 Automotive Full Service Providers/ Sensor Equipment Integrators  and Sensor Suppliers will be given the opportunity to clarify their needs, requirements and views and will engage in a panel session where the audience is invited to ask questions and they will be given the opportunity to ask each other and the audience questions.

Speakers 

• Continental

• Delphi

• Groeneveld Roadeye

• Robert Bosch

• Siemens VDO

• TRW Automotive

• M/A-COM - Tyco Electronics

• Valeo/Raytheon

3:00 PM

NETWORKING BREAK

3:30 PM

CLOSING PANEL

GM and OTHER OEMs DISCUSS IF/HOW THE WORKSHOP MET THEIR EXPECTATIONS

4:15 PM

Take Aways

Participants state their appreciation and interpretation of the workshop results and to what extent the workshop met their expectations.

5:00 PM  

Adjourn

7:00 PM  

Social and Networking 

Reception & Registration

for

Workshop on

Government Security Applications 
for Millimeterwave Sensors 

At Hotel

Friday, September 22, 2006

8:00 AM

 to

5:30 PM

One Day Workshop on 

Government Security Applications for Millimeterwave Security Sensors

(Click here for agenda and registration) 

DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS:

Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: 

Friday September 8, 2006

COSTS/REGISTRATION FEE:

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus 4 Breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, transportation, etc.

These costs will be $694. (USD) per person. (For IWPC Members, only.)

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, MasterCard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.

Make checks payable to IWPC.

HOTEL:

Hilton Washington Dulles Airport
13869 Park Center Road
Herndon, VA  20171
Phone: 703-478-2900
Fax: 703-478-9286

Please contact the hotel directly for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of $189.USD

Cut-off date for reservations is September 6, 2006. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

AUDIO VISUAL:

A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.

In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.

BUSINESS CARDS:

Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.

DRESS:

Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!

HANDOUT MATERIALS:

IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.

For ALL IWPC members:

All IWPC members are invited to submit a maximum of 4 pages of materials to include in this handout binder. These  pages should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:

You are invited to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

These materials will be copied and handed out at the workshop and included in the IWPC Web site.

Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.

Please send electronic materials (any size file) to:

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